34 BC LIONS Orange Shirt Game Day The BC Lions, along with LIUNA and our other partners, strive to create awareness around the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and promote this important message through our Orange Shirt Day game. Orange Shirt Day, which began in 2013 provides all of us, including our organization the opportunity to recommit to the ongoing process of reconciliation and to commemorate the residential school experience, to witness and honour the healing journey of the survivors and their families. 2023 marked the BC Lions’ third annual Orange Shirt Day Game, which included the raffling off of warmup jerseys to support the Orange Shirt Society and Indian Residential Schools Survivors’ Society (IRSSS), over 700 free game tickets to residential school survivors and their families, and the BC Lions, with support of LIUNA Local 1611 presented a $20,000 cheque to the Orange Shirt Society. For the Lions’ football game, the first 10,000 fans through the gates received a free orange shirt with the translation of the words ‘mountain lion’ in the Squamish and hənqəminəm (Musqueam and Tseil-Waututh) languages. The evening celebrated Indigenous performers which included; Canadian electronic duo The Halluci Nation (at halftime) and DJ Oshow (pre-game), and an Indigenous Marketplace which was presented by Destination Indigenous. “As an Organization, we feel it is important to broaden our own understanding of the painful history and ongoing impacts of residential 12 schools and will continue to do all we can within our football community.” 2 0 E U JAMIE TARAS S S I Director Community Partnerships | 4 2 0 2 Learn how to pronounce mountain lion in R hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm̓ , the language of the Musqueam E B and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. M E T P SCAN the QR CODE E S