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Penticton Indian Band recognized by CCAB
The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business honoured the Penticton Indian Band as the 2015 recipient of the Economic Development Corporation of the Year at its second annual Calgary gala on May 14. The annual award, sponsored by Sodexo Canada, recognizes an outstanding EDC, affirming the value EDCs bring to Aboriginal…
“I will be crazy excited and terrified to see my head on screen,” said Jessie Short, who was selected for this year’s Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers/imagineNATIVE mentorship program. The annual mentorship enables an Indigenous artist living in Alberta to expand his practice into film and video and screen his work at the imagineNATIVE film festival in Toronto in October.
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The Catholic priest who has been an integral part of the Edmonton inner city for the past 20 years will be staying.
Rev. Jim Holland, of the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, was defended passionately by his parishioners, says Cree Elder Gilman Cardinal, who was among those to speak to representatives of the Oblates. He told them the church would suffer if the Missionary Oblates…
Aboriginal artists connected to funders
Channeling Connections was hosted by the Edmonton Arts Council as a means to bring together Indigenous artists, prairie art organizations and funding bodies. The three-day event drew on representatives from visuals arts, theatre, dance, film, customary arts and new media to expand artistic frontiers and understanding of…
Students in Gibbons and members of the Immanuel Anglican Church in Wetaskiwin are among the many in Canada honouring the 150,000 Aboriginal children who lost their childhood and their culture to the residential school system through heart gardens. Over 250 were planted across the province and thousands nationwide.
Communities have painted murals, decorated paper hearts, sewn quilts and…
The third of three investigations of RCMP-involved shootings of Indigenous men in August 2013 has concluded in the same manner as the first two: no wrong-doing on the part of the RCMP.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has determined that the RCMP officer, who shot and killed Daniel Charland, 52, in a residence on the Cold Lake First Nation, had used force “reasonable…
After 52 hours of worrying that their homes may be consumed by a man-initiated wildfire, the majority of residents of Bigstone Cree Nation and the hamlet of Wabasca, in the Municipal District of Opportunity, were given the all clear to return on the evening of May 26.
The 117 people in Reserve C had to wait until the following morning so hoses and pipes could be cleared from the road.…
Health Canada Minister Rona Ambrose recently met with First Nations representatives, provincial officials, doctors, pharmacists, law enforcement and addictions specialists in Edmonton to discuss prescription drug abuse. The symposium was the second of its kind in as many years, with a specific focus on the increasing incidents of overdose and abuse of prescription drugs reported in First…
Richard Van Camp, of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort Smith, NWT, is the winner of the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature. Van Camp’s book Little You was nominated along with You’re Just Right, by Victor Lethbridge, a member of Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation. Also nominated in that category of the 2015 Alberta Literary Awards was Leanne Shirtliffe…
Two new investigate reports issued from the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate focus on two children, one of whom is a First Nations girl, who suffered serious injuries while in government care. The girl, dubbed Bonita, was in the care of her parents and her family was receiving services from Child Intervention Services. She was taken to hospital suffering from septic shock caused by…
The physician who had to fight against professional misconduct charges when he spoke out about high cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, has been let go – by the community he advocated for. John O’Connor, who signed an agreement with the Nunee Health Board Society seven years ago to deliver on-call medical assistance, received his termination letter via email May 8. No reason was given in the…
Horse Lake First Nation has signed an expanded mutual aid agreement with the County of Grande Prairie that will allow the closest county-owned or contracted fire department (Hythe, Beaverlodge or LacGlace) to respond immediately when it becomes aware of an emergency. For the past 23 years, the county has had a mutual aid agreement with Horse Lake First Nation that offered firefighting support…
Donalda Stanley, the Nurse in Charge at Paul First Nation, was presented with a Health Canada Award of Excellence in Nursing. Each year during National Nursing Week, Health Canada presents the award to three exceptional community nurses, one employed by a First Nations community, an Inuit community, and Health Canada. When considering nominees, the panel looks at nurses who demonstrate…
Canadian band Blue Rodeo will be joining Neil Young on July 3 at Rexall Place in Edmonton for an Honour the Treaties benefit concert. Money raised will go to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund to fight against oilsands development. Last year, Young, who has vocally opposed oilsands development, held similar Honour the Treaties concerts in cities across Canada, including…
Former Grand Chief of Treaty Six Craig Mackinaw will be taking on the position of Alberta Regional Chief for the Assembly of First Nations on July 1. Mackinaw defeated the only other candidate, Leila Houle, a member of the Whitefish Lake Band, in an election held May 21. Mackinaw also served as Chief of the Ermineskin Cree Nation from 2011 and 2014. He will replace Alberta Regional Chief…