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The company that won this year鈥檚 Premier鈥檚 Award of Distinction says that working with Aboriginal groups and businesses is key to the company鈥檚 future.
鈥淚t is a recognition by the business community that PTI Group is doing something good,鈥 said Stephen Crocker, manager of Aboriginal relations for PTI Group, an Edmonton-based subsidiary company of Oil States International, based in鈥
Mustard Seed feeds 400 hungry at Easter
The Mustard Seed held an Easter celebration on Good Friday, which included serving over 400 meals in the evening. 鈥淚t was extremely similar to the numbers we saw last year,鈥 said Alyssa Burnham, communications specialist with the Mustard Seed. Because of the increase in demand for food hampers over Easter weekend, the Mustard Seed鈥
Aboriginal people will be involved in all three time frames of Calgary鈥檚 bid for Cultural Capital 2012: exploring the historical past and western heritage, cultural expression in the present, and looking forward to creating the future. The overarching theme of Calgary 2012 is to celebrate, connect and create.
鈥淐algary 2012 presents a huge opportunity for Aboriginal Calgarians to鈥
Funding for Fort Saskatchewan festival
Funding from Heritage Canada will allow the Fort Saskatchewan Historical Society to present its annual Peoples of the North Saskatchewan Festival on May 12 and 13. Activities will celebrate and commemorate early settlers in the Fort Saskatchewan region. Aboriginal, M茅tis, and pioneer life will be showcased through dance and鈥
One of the recommendations from the Mayor鈥檚 Task Force on Community Safety is helping to create young Aboriginal leaders in Edmonton.
The fifth recommendation of nine that came from the REACH Report, the result of the Mayor鈥檚 task force, calls for the city鈥檚 Aboriginal leaders to foster prevention solutions from a uniquely Aboriginal perspective.
鈥淭his approach is one of those鈥
The shyness is already melting away as students from Alberta鈥檚 Whitefish Lake First Nations interact online with a northern Ontario school class across the country before meeting them in person this month.
鈥淥ur kids have asked for another videoconference with the kids from Bearskin Lake First Nation and they鈥檙e asking a lot of questions about what they should bring 鈥 like 鈥榗an I鈥
Over a year after Edmonton city council refused to alter the new Municipal Development Plan to allow for mining of a gravel pit in the River Valley, Kanata Culture Enterprise Ltd. is asking for reconsideration.
But a favourable decision from council could be hard to come by.
鈥淭here鈥檚 strong opposition to this,鈥 said Tim Ford, the city鈥檚 senior planner for the west unit. Ford鈥檚鈥
The First Nations, M茅tis and Inuit students at St. Francis school have discovered their strengths in leadership, commitment and performance through a newly formed drum group.
Last October, a handful of students approached Billy Woitte, FNMI worker at St. Francis junior high school, in Lethbridge about starting an extra curricular drum group. Woitte immediately embraced the initiative鈥
Pearl Calahsen, one of Education Minister Dave Hancock鈥檚 harshest critics when he disbanded the Northland School Division corporate board, is now leading the minister鈥檚 newest team in the northern school district.
Calahasen, MLA for Lesser Slave Lake and former Aboriginal Affairs minister, referred to Hancock鈥檚 move last year to dismantle the 23-member board and replace it with an鈥
A draft plan to guide development in the Lower Athabasca region in northern Alberta has been met with strong disapproval by the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations.
鈥淔irst Nations don鈥檛 have a lot of capacity or a lot of resources. We put a lot of what little we had into (the regional plan). This was really important to us. We explained that, made the government aware of鈥
Dean Lindsay is so incensed with what he sees as an end run around by the executive of the M茅tis Nation of Alberta to push citizenship that he is challenging President Audrey Poitras or 鈥渙ne of her minions鈥 in the upcoming election.
In an email to Sweetgrass, Lindsay said, 鈥. . . if they win I will give up my membership with the MNA, on the condition that all members of the MNA red and鈥
Charges laid in tobacco seizure on Montana First Nation
The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission has laid charges under the Tobacco Act in connection with 16 million cigarettes seized from a Quonset on the Montana First Nation on Jan. 5. Montana First Nation Chief Carolyn Buffalo, Rainbow Tobacco president Robbie Dickson, and Dwayne Ouimet each face charges of allegedly鈥
Alberta鈥檚 five Aboriginal candidates in the May 2 federal election delivered an important message: Aboriginal people need to be heard.
鈥淲hat a wonderful way of telling our children and grandchildren that you can become anything in this world, including running for politics,鈥 said Bernadette Iahtail, worker on the Lewis Cardinal campaign.
New Democratic Party candidates, Cardinal鈥
Like father, like son.
Well, Jesse Cockney, a 21-year-old Inuit cross-country skier who lives in Canmore, actually surpassed his father鈥檚 accomplishments.
Cockney managed to win four medals (three gold, one bronze) at the recent Canada Winter Games, which were held Feb. 12-27 in Halifax.
鈥淲as I surprised?鈥 Cockney said. 鈥淣o. Happy? Very. The goal was to come away with two鈥
It seems Aboriginal hand games are picking up in popularity in northern Alberta, and it isn鈥檛 just in First Nations culture.
Rosary school in Manning, an hour north of Peace River, is finding that interest in the games is high among all the students. Most of the students aren鈥檛 even Aboriginal.
鈥淲e have these hand games tournaments for the kids. zThey love being a part of something鈥