After ten years at the helm, Joe Gunn, is leaving Citizens for Public Justice to head up the new Oblate Centre at Saint Paul University in Ottawa.
The move on Feb. 11 brings full circle Gunn’s more than four-decade career in social justice work that began in the Catholic Church and ends with service for a program funded by the various Oblate of Mary Immaculate provinces in Canada, including Alberta.
“We will work on issues identified of concern to the Oblates: poverty in Canada; issues of environment; mining, especially Canadian mining in global south; and with the Oblates ongoing concern with aboriginal reconciliation,” said Gunn,
