We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Naming conventions

Key points on this page:

File names cannot contain any special characters
Where applicable, keep file names generic (no versions or dates)

Before you upload a file, ensure that the name of the file on your computer does not contain any special characters, including parentheses and square brackets, otherwise the file will not upload.

The System Name of uploaded assets are automatically generated by the CMS based on the name of the files on your computer. Before you upload any files to the CMS, be sure to remove any special characters from the file names.

In addition, if you have any spaces or capitals in your file name, the CMS will prompt you to re-name the uploaded asset to follow the CMS naming conventions:

all lowercase characters
any spaces replaced with dashes

The File Name and path of the asset (what appears in the CMS Site Content menu) is what will be used as the asset's live URL, so there should not be any special characters, capitals, or spaces.

Where applicable, file names of uploaded assets should be generic (no dates or versions in the file name)

If previous versions of a file do not need to be archived, keep the File Name generic, without any version numbers or dates. When the file needs to be updated at a later date, the file can be overwritten at the same location, thereby avoiding the need to relink and republish pages. The updated file can be republished and all pages linking to the file will automatically be updated as well.

For example:

Enter a File Name of registration-form, rather than registration-form-2018.