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City spends $15M on land – Lethbridge Herald
October 10, 2017 Lethbridge City Council spent nearly $15 million on westside land bank purchases during its final council meeting on Tuesday. In two different motions, council voted to pay College Farms Ltd. $14.8 million for two land packages. The first motion included a $5.2-million purchase of 80 acres south of Métis Trail along 25 […]
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Read MoreMixed reaction to ’60s Scoop settlement – St. Albert Gazette
Wally Arcand said he was just three when the police took him, his brother and sister away from their mother. He spent the rest of his childhood in foster care, mostly cut off from his home community and family in Alexander First Nation, living amongst non-Indigenous families and students. “You always felt like you were […]
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Read MoreGirls Belong Here campaign – CBC
As part of the International Day of the Girl, a Metis student got to shadow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a day. Matt Galloway talks to her about what that was like. Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/metro-morning/segment/14353688
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Read MoreBR Energy East Trudeau – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Oct 11, 2017 EDMONTON – Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should not go after critics of the cancelled Energy East pipeline project, but should look to his own actions. Scheer spoke in Edmonton yesterday about Trudeau’s recent social media comments accusing those critics of using the […]
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Read MoreMacEwan University’s first Indigenous female president Deborah Saucier ready for real change – Edmonton Journal
October 10, 2017 New university presidents are prepared to face a few hurdles when they begin their tenure, but for MacEwan University’s new president Deborah Saucier, the baptism of fire was unprecedented. A little over a month into her five-year term, Saucier was informed in mid-August that the university had been fleeced of $11.8 million […]
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Read MoreBarrhead north trustee candidate favours curriculum redesign – The Barrhead Leader
Oct 10, 2017 Four years ago Jennifer Tuininga decided to run as Pembina Hills Public Schools (PHPS) trustee because she wanted to better facilitate communication between the board and the various communities they serve. It is also a large part of the reason why she decided to let her name stand for the Oct. 16 […]
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Read MoreEdmonton women’s prison failing Indigenous women, inmates with mental illness, advocates say – CBC
‘It’s the institution that first implemented some of the most regressive and repressive security regimes’ Oct 10, 2017 Poor treatment of Indigenous women and inmates with mental illness is behind the growing tension at the Edmonton Institution for Women, prisoner advocates say. The prison has reached a breaking point, warns the local Elizabeth Fry Society […]
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Read MoreSix stories in the news for today, Oct. 10 – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 10, 2017 Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 10 ___ TRUDEAU, HARPER TO CROSS PATHS IN WASHINGTON The current prime minister and his predecessor will both be in Washington this week for the same reason _ the renegotiation of NAFTA. Stephen Harper is scheduled to attend a panel discussion on […]
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Read MoreTreaty Alliance vows to fight other projects after TransCanada ends Energy East pipeline – APTN
A group of First Nations leaders who formed to fight pipeline projects across Canada says they will continue their push to stop three other pipelines now that the TransCanada Energy East pipeline is dead. TransCanada made the announcement Thursday. The Treaty Alliance Against the Tar Sands, made up of 150 First Nations across Canada and […]
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Read MoreEight stories in the news for today, Oct. 6 – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 6, 2017 Eight stories in the news for Friday, Oct. 6 ___ FEDS SET TO ANNOUNCE 60’S SCOOP SETTLEMENT The federal government is poised to announce a settlement with the Indigenous survivors of the 60’s scoop. The Canadian Press has learned hundreds of millions of dollars will be paid to roughly 20-thousand […]
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