As we go to press, a new study has been released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and we’d like to draw our readers’ attention to it. It’s entitled “Shameful Neglect: Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada.” It can be viewed here: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/shameful-neglect.

Syncrude promises to keep paying employees who fled Fort McMurray fires

A new video released by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council sheds new light on the delivery of effective and culturally-informed health care to Indigenous peoples living both in First Nations communities and in the city.

Employees of the NTC Hupiimin Wiiksaḥiiyap (Helping us to be well) Nursing Services celebrated National Nursing Week on May 6 through 12. The 14-minute video, Nursing the Nuu-chah-nulth, was produced locally by Shape Shyfter Studios.

May 17, 2016.

Electricity has been fully restored to the Fort McMurray First Nation but when evacuees will be returning to the community – or Fort McMurray, Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McKay -  is as of yet unknown.

Not only did the growing wildfire cause further evacuations north of Fort McMurray Monday night, but two explosions occurred within Fort McMurray destroying 10 homes. The cause of the explosions in the neighbourhoods of Thickwood and Dickinsfield is under investigation.

Fort McMurray fire forces evacuation of 8,000 in work camps

Forty Indigenous high school students from across Canada got a taste of university life in Mid-May.

The program is the University of Manitoba’s Verna J. Kirkness Science and Engineering education program. It is for Grade 11 students of Aboriginal descent, already considering a university degree in the field, and they spend a full week shadowing and learning from different researchers, scientists, and professors.

May 16, 2016.

Fort McKay First Nation members are “frustrated. They want to go home,” said Rose Mueller, communications officer with the First Nation.

“We don’t know what’s happening in Fort McKay. It changes daily,” she said.

The community was voluntarily evacuated on May 7 due to smoke from the Fort McMurray wildfire. Around 400 people left, with the majority settling in Edmonton, Calgary, St. Paul and Wabasca.

Author encouraged Aboriginal writers

One cold winter night, Larry Loyie and his younger sisters hauled an old steamer trunk up Rabbit Hill overlooking Alberta’s Slave Lake. Unable to afford a real sled, a scoop shovel and tin strips served as sled runners as the children hopped in the box to whiz over the snow.