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The suicide death of a teenage M茅tis boy in kinship care is a 鈥渢ragedy鈥 that spurred the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate to issue six recommendations to the Ministry of Human Services.
鈥淎 mother鈥檚 lost her son, a family鈥檚 lost a loved one and we looked at that (and) we were quite concerned about what are those systemic issues that are related to this situation? How can we learn from鈥
Out of destruction can come renewed hope and a brighter future, says Vivian Manasc of Manasc Isaac Architects, whose firm was 鈥渋nstrumental 鈥 in helping rebuild Slave Lake after the devastating fire in 2011.
鈥淚n addition to most of the homes in the southern Alberta floods being unliveable, the community health care facilities and schools were damaged and need to be repaired and that鈥
Alvin Manitopyes leads the Grand Entry into Olympic Plaza.
First Nations celebrate Canada Day on Olympic Plaza
Despite the flooding of Prince鈥檚 Island in late June, Canada Day celebrations went ahead at Shaw Millenium Park, on Stephen Avenue and at Olympic Plaza, beginning with the Grand Entry of the pow wow. Hundreds of Calgarians packed Olympic Plaza for an鈥
Marchers, led by Chevi Rabbit (centre, without sign), many wearing red to represent anti-hate, marched from the University area over the High Level bridge to the Alberta legislature for a rally entitled 鈥淔rom Hate to Hope.鈥
Hate to Hope rally
Aug. 2 marked the second Hate to Hope rally held in Edmonton. In 2012, Montana First Nation鈥
Cold Lake First Nation is demanding answers from Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. after it came to light that bitumen emulsion has been seeping into the ground.
In a strongly worded statement released Aug. 8, Chief Bernice Martial stated, 鈥淲e are extremely alarmed with the environmental damage from the blow out鈥 and we are now demanding answers and want factual information on the鈥
Prayer vigils were held July 25 in Edmonton and Calgary as part of national action to condemn the federal government for using children at six residential schools for experimentation. Children who attended St. Paul鈥檚 and Blood schools, on the Blood reserve, were among those included in government tests.
鈥淪cientists chose Aboriginal children because they were already鈥
Via Canadian Press
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that restricts where M茅tis people can hunt in the province of Alberta.
Garry Hirsekorn was convicted in 2010 of hunting out of season after he shot a mule deer in 2007 near the Cypress Hills area in southeast Alberta.
Hirsekorn's lawyers had argued that he was exercising his Aboriginal rights as a M茅tis.鈥
Northern Lakes College has a new bursary program. The 鈥淪hell Canada Aboriginal Education Advancement Fund鈥 will pay for course upgrades across the Northern Lakes community campuses and be distributed over a five-year period. Shell donated $250,000 to Northern Lakes College to provide funding for students who wish to enter a college or apprenticeship program, but do not meet the鈥
Dr. Wilton Littlechild, a member of the Ermineskin Cree Nation and commissioner with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, performed the honouring ceremony at Augustana鈥檚 convocation ceremony June 2 as a record number of Aboriginal students graduated from the University of Alberta鈥檚 Camrose campus. Littlechild also presented an offering to his youngest daughter, who followed鈥
Cree artist George Littlechild, originally from Alberta but now living in British Columbia, received an honourary Doctor of Literature degree from the University of the Fraser Valley. Littlechild built both a strong reputation and a huge catalogue of work over the 25 years he has been creating since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia School of Art and鈥
In early June, Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs launched a 10-day motorcycle tour of First Nations across the Prairies to raise awareness of treaty rights. The motorcycle caravan traveled more than 4,000 km to about 40 First Nations in six traditional territories in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The route saw the caravan hit Alberta in the middle of the 10鈥
Dene Tha鈥 First Nation lost its bid to stop the sale of oil and gas tenure in their territory. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Christopher Grauer found that the Dene Tha鈥 had been properly consulted on the B.C. government鈥檚 sale of exploration rights on 21 parcels of land, most for shale gas development in northeastern B.C. However, in his written judgment Grauer says the depth of consultation will鈥
Whitefish Lake First Nation and Ermineskin Cree Nation have undertaken an aggressive joint campaign to stop Coalspur鈥檚 proposed Vista coal mine project- the first of four stages in a massive 470 sq/km open pit operation in the Eastern Slopes, which will impact diverse wildlife populations and threaten one of the last hunting grounds of several First Nations鈥 communities. The鈥
Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has postponed his tour of an oilsands plant in the Fort McMurray area slated for the last weekend in June and his visit to a First Nations community at Fort Chipewyan because of the floods in southern Alberta. Kennedy is a lawyer with the U.S. National Resources Defense Council and president of the Waterkeeper鈥檚 Alliance. CP reported that鈥
Samson Cree Nation Chief Marvin Yellowbird signed an agreement with Brendan Dolan, president of ATCO Pipelines, that outlines a commitment by the company to explore employment and training opportunities with the Samson Cree on the replacement of a 219 mm pipeline running through the First Nation. The pipeline is a critical piece of a larger network that provides natural gas鈥