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The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Review
By Marie Clements
Co-Directed by Marie Clements and Donna Spencer
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
Firehall Arts Centre until Nov. 25.
Marie Clements, playwright and co-director, has managed to turn a true story of murder and tragedy from what is gruesome and despicable at best into a beautifully presented and…
The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Review
By Marie Clements
Co-Directed by Marie Clements and Donna Spencer
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
Firehall Arts Centre until Nov. 25.
Marie Clements, playwright and co-director, has managed to turn a true story of murder and tragedy from what is gruesome and despicable at best into a beautifully presented and…
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People across the country will be celebrating addiction-free living Nov. 12 to 18, during the 13th annual National Addictions Awareness Week.
The goal of National Addictions Awareness Week (NAAW), organized by Nechi Training, Research & Health Promotions Institute, is to provide information about and increase awareness of addiction issues affecting people across Canada…
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People across the country will be celebrating addiction-free living Nov. 12 to 18, during the 13th annual National Addictions Awareness Week.
The goal of National Addictions Awareness Week (NAAW), organized by Nechi Training, Research & Health Promotions Institute, is to provide information about and increase awareness of addiction issues affecting people across Canada…
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Premier Ujjal Dosanjh unveiled a renewed cabinet on Nov. 1, with 16 changes, including six new members from the government caucus and Edward John, grand chief of the Tl'azt'en Nation and executive member of the First Nations Summit.
"My team will lay the groundwork for a new mandate focused on the changing needs of today's families in health care, in child care, in…
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Premier Ujjal Dosanjh unveiled a renewed cabinet on Nov. 1, with 16 changes, including six new members from the government caucus and Edward John, grand chief of the Tl'azt'en Nation and executive member of the First Nations Summit.
"My team will lay the groundwork for a new mandate focused on the changing needs of today's families in health care, in child care, in…
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Fourteen Haida ancestors were repatriated from the provincial museum, placed in their own bentwood boxes and brought home for reburial. They are the latest of many Haida remains to be returned to their communities after long years stored in museums across Canada and the United States.
"It started at the Royal British Columbia Museum. We approached the museum first. That is…
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Fourteen Haida ancestors were repatriated from the provincial museum, placed in their own bentwood boxes and brought home for reburial. They are the latest of many Haida remains to be returned to their communities after long years stored in museums across Canada and the United States.
"It started at the Royal British Columbia Museum. We approached the museum first. That is…
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Imagine Shakespeare's comedic flight of fancy, A Mid-summer Night's Dream, with most of the principal characters portrayed by First Nations performers.
Darryl Clark, Kim Oleman, Stacey Sparrow, Jackson Crick, Stuart Pierre and Wayne Lavallee are the six interns of Carousel Theatre School's Native Youth Internship Program which took part in the school's summer tyraining…
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Imagine Shakespeare's comedic flight of fancy, A Mid-summer Night's Dream, with most of the principal characters portrayed by First Nations performers.
Darryl Clark, Kim Oleman, Stacey Sparrow, Jackson Crick, Stuart Pierre and Wayne Lavallee are the six interns of Carousel Theatre School's Native Youth Internship Program which took part in the school's summer tyraining…
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Earlier this year, West Coast fishermen were shocked to learn that the Somass chinook salmon run was estimated to number only 10,000 fish. Now those same fishermen are horrified to discover that only 4,600 adult chinook have returned to the Stamp/Somass system.
Data from the central counter at Stamp Falls also registered more than 2,000 jacks (immature males), which is…
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Earlier this year, West Coast fishermen were shocked to learn that the Somass chinook salmon run was estimated to number only 10,000 fish. Now those same fishermen are horrified to discover that only 4,600 adult chinook have returned to the Stamp/Somass system.
Data from the central counter at Stamp Falls also registered more than 2,000 jacks (immature males), which is…
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Sparked into action by derogatory remarks expressed by rock music mogul Bruce Allen on a Vancouver radio station, a group called One Voice Has Power has vowed to keep diligent vigil on all forms media.
After Allen's Aug. 3 on-air rant, the group, spearheaded by Kat Norris, began a information blitz calling for community action by way of a demonstration in front of the…
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Sparked into action by derogatory remarks expressed by rock music mogul Bruce Allen on a Vancouver radio station, a group called One Voice Has Power has vowed to keep diligent vigil on all forms media.
After Allen's Aug. 3 on-air rant, the group, spearheaded by Kat Norris, began a information blitz calling for community action by way of a demonstration in front of the…
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The Westbank First Nation's Self-Government Agreement was initialed on July 6 by Chief Ron Derrickson and , on behalf of the federal government, Senator Ross Fitzpatrick.
Simply put, the band will have increased controls over local matters and its affairs in terms of bylaws, land and resource management, Aboriginal language and culture and environment management. The…