The Treaty Six Grand Chieftainship was transfered from Grand Chief Chief Tony Alexis to the new Grand Chief Randy Ermineskin, after the Grand Entry at the Alexis First Nation Powwow on Friday night, July 8, 2016.

Former Alexis chiefs and other chiefs from the Treaty Six Confederacy were in attendance.

Chief Tony Alexis was gifted a teepee for his work of the past year from the Confederacy.

June 20, 2016. The Louis Bull First Nation officially began the first phase of its solar project this spring and expects to complete work by summer. Phase 2 to follow will see solar panels go up on the administration building, community health centre and school. By the end of the project, 300 solar panels will be installed on four buildings. The solar initiative first came about as an expressed interest from the former chief and Councillor Desmond Bull in the fall of 2013.

Losing her home in a fire in 2009 opened the door to beauty pageants for Siera Bearchell, crowned only last weekend as Miss Universe Canada.

In receiving help from the Canadian Red Cross when her family lost their house, Bearchell started volunteering for the organization. It was during that time that she heard about Miss Teen Saskatchewan.

“I thought it would give me a bigger platform to make a difference for people and maybe across the country,” she said.

Now as Miss Universe Canada, Bearchell, 23, has an even bigger platform.

June 16, 2016.

Muriel Stanley Venne says men – especially offenders – need to play a prominent role in the upcoming national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

Stanley Venne, who is president and founder for the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, sits on the National Aboriginal Advisory Committee for Correctional Services Canada.

“One of the elements that seems to be missing … was the involvement of men and involvement of the murderers,” she said.

Most would consider a trip to a Cuban resort to be one of pleasant distractions; warm sand, rum and a rather shallow excursion into another culture. This is what my partner and I thought when we visited Cuba several weeks ago. 

It seemed obvious to us that in the months ahead, more and more Americans would be flooding the beaches and gradually Kardashianizing the whole island. I had been to Cuba once before, in 1983, and was eager to see it again before the Golden Arches started popping up underneath every palm tree.

It seems only fitting that a major celebration of lacrosse next year will be staged in Montreal, and more specifically at McGill University.

Plans for the 150^th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration were announced at a news conference on Wednesday. The event is scheduled for a year from now, June 16 to June 18 in 2017.

Speak truth to power. That’s what a delegation of young men and women of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation did when they visited “The Hill” in Ottawa June 13 to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

They talked with him about how Canada has left them behind on housing, education, clean water and health services. They shared stories of the challenges they face, their lack of prospects for a better future, and suicides in their communities when friends and family just give up hope.

Norman Tait: Determined carver single-handedly revived Nisga’a art form

By Dianne Meili

Norman Tait, Sim'oogit Gawaakhl, exacted the same discipline from his carving team as he did from himself.

“He was ambitious and focused,” said the carver’s youngest brother Robert “Chip” Tait, who, years ago, helped his siblings complete a pole for Vancouver’s Capilano Mall, while also carving ocean-going vessels and paddles for an upcoming Canoe Festival.

Crowned Mrs. North America Globe Classic last year, Lisa Ground is using her position to speak out against domestic violence and abuse. (File photo)

June 7, 2016.

When Lisa Ground was seeking refuge from an abusive relationship there were no women shelters with vacancies.

Now, the reigning Mrs. North America Globe Classic is doing all she can to ensure other women in her situation have some place safe to go to.