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Tomas Jirousek

Tomas Jirousek is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kainai Nation. He graduated from McGill University in 2020 as a valedictorian after leading a successful campaign against the use of “Redmen” as the name of McGill’s men’s sports teams. He is currently completing his law degree at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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