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Bones found in Innisfail area
April 7, 2016. The Calgary Medical Examiner’s Office in consultation with the forensic pathologist will examine bones discovered in a wooded area near Innisfail. Innisfail RCMP were contacted Tuesday evening after the bones were located near the QEII. The RCMP,…
April 6, 2016.
The Metis settlements consultation policy that was announced Tuesday by the province is a “good first step towards coming up with a meaningful consultation protocol,” says Randy Hardy, president of the Metis Settlements General Council.
Hardy says there are still two outstanding items that need to be dealt with: a dispute resolution mechanism and inclusion of…
April 5, 2016.
The Alberta government announced Tuesday that it is doing away with the Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency and taking on monitoring of the environment as a “core responsibility.”
The government’s move is in response to an independent review, which determined contracting the services to an external agency was not the right delivery…
Mayors, councils gather to share ending-poverty strategy
April 6, 2016. Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, is speaking Wednesday at the Cities Reducing Poverty: When Mayors Lead gathering in Edmonton. Blackstock is addressing ending poverty for Indigenous children by enacting the calls…
Mayors, councils gather to share ending-poverty strategy
April 6, 2016. Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, is speaking Wednesday at the Cities Reducing Poverty: When Mayors Lead gathering in Edmonton. Blackstock is addressing ending poverty for Indigenous children by enacting the calls…
April 6, 2016. Christian Duckchief, 23, is scheduled to make a court appearance in Drumheller on Wednesday following a weekend incident in which he alleges RCMP abuse. Charges of assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest and breaching bail conditions stem from that incident April 1. Duckchief was sleeping with his fiancee in her Siksika First Nation home when he was hauled…
Sainte-Marie wins big at the Junos
April 3, 2016. Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Power In the Blood earned her Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and Aboriginal Album of the Year at the Juno Awards held in Calgary on Sunday. Sainte-Marie kicked off the televised broadcast from the Scotiabank Saddledome with a powerful spoken-word…
April 4, 2016.
Derek Jagodzinsky has been exploring his First Nation’s culture through his design of women’s clothes. And now, as recipient of the province’s first ever Indigenous Graduate Award, he will be taking that discovery to a new level in the hopes of designing furniture, housewares, and personal accessories or, as he puts it, “making beautiful products.”
Last week,…
FLERC invests in thermal oil project
April 4, 2016. Frog Lake Energy Resources Corp. and Pengrowth Energy Corporation have announced an agreement for the sale and leaseback of the co-generation facilities at Pengrowth’s Lindbergh thermal oil project in Cold Lake. Under the terms of the agreement, FLERC has invested $35 million and will own and…
March 31, 2016.
Joanne McDonald knows both personally and professionally the impact diabetes can have on a person’s life.
McDonald is a member of the Enoch Cree Nation and serves as community health representative at the local health centre. She’s also the mother of three children with type 2 diabetes and married to a diabetic.
Joanne McDonald with her family:…
Saddle Lake First Nation woman named first Indigenous CAO for Nanaimo
March 31, 2016. Tracy Samra, from Saddle Lake First Nation, was appointed early in March as Nanaimo's new chief administrative officer. Samra was selected from 50 applicants from across Canada and the United States. She will serve as both Nanaimo's…
March 30, 2016.
Indigenous artists have a week longer to submit their proposals for artwork that will accompany Edmonton’s light rail transit line at Tawatinâ bridge.
The nation-wide call went out early January. But the need to revisit the bid package and “add some more context” has provided artists with a little longer to respond, says Jenna Turner,…
Inaugural award goes to Indigenous fashion designer
March 30, 2016. Indigenous Graduate Award winner Derek Jagodzinsky is showing his latest fashion LUXX ready-to-wear collection Wednesday as part of Western Canada Fashion Week in Edmonton. Jagodzinsky is the inaugural winner…
March 28, 2016.
An anthology that examines reconciliation will be launched on Wednesday in Edmonton’s downtown public library.
In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation will kick off Edmonton Public Library’s Exploring Reconciliation series.
“Reconciliation has been so wonderfully engaged with and received in the city, from all the leaders ……
Maskwacis Elder shortlisted for Emerald Award
March 24, 2016. Maskwacis Elder Roy Louis of Battle River First Nations water ceremony is one of three finalists in the category of individual commitment for the Alberta Emerald Awards. Louis is competing against Jerry Brunen, of Western Sky Land Trust Society (Calgary), and Melvin Mathison, of Lakeland…