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5 things to know for Wednesday, January 4, 2023 – CTV
A digital communications breakdown may have led to further delays for Sunwing passengers, communities rally for Bills safety Damar Hamlin following the player’s shocking cardiac arrest, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he had a “substantive conversation” with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. 1. Delayed emails, empty […]
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Read MoreRed River Current Newsletter – January 2023 – Fort McKay FN
Below is a link to the January 2023 edition of the Red River Current. We hope you enjoy the read. If you have any interesting photos, stories, or ideas for the Red River Current, please contact the Communications Department by email: communications@fortmckay.com. Read More: https://www.fortmckay.com/news/red-river-current-newsletter-january-2023/
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Read MorePedestrian killed in hit and run near Six Nations – CTV
Jan. 3, 2023 Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are looking for a white mid-sized SUV said to have extensive front-end damage after a crash near Six Nations of the Grand River territory that left one person dead. Police say emergency crews were called to the collision on Indian Line just outside Ohsweken around 4:45 a.m. on […]
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Read MoreEnergy Peers in Indigenous Communities Network gets a $3MIL boost from Ottawa – Electrical Business Magazine
January 3, 2023 – Ottawa is providing nearly $3 million from the Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways program for Fraser Basin Council’s Energy Peers in Indigenous Communities (EPIC) Network—a capacity-building program designed to encourage Indigenous leadership in the renewable energy and electrification sectors across British Columbia. The EPIC Network will support a group of energy […]
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Read MoreCapitalism, Colonialism, Canada: How the Past is Before Us – The Bullet – Socialist Project
January 3, 2023 Capitalism and colonialism are the undeniable foundations of modern Canada. As reciprocal systems of appropriation and accumulation, they combined to produce the hegemonic hold of an ethos of possessive, acquisitive individualism, structuring economic development, state formation, and the social relations of everyday life. In focusing on capitalist development and colonization as it […]
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Read MoreMétis Manitobans learn new skills, honour ancestors through beaded poppy workshops – CBC
Jan 03, 2023 Monthly workshops on the first Wednesday of the month are free for Métis people 14 and up It may be a bit late in the year to don a poppy, but Métis people in Manitoba are coming together to learn how to bead the red and black flower as a way to honour veterans, […]
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Read MoreThreatening signs posted in wooded area by two northern Ontario First Nations – CTV
Jan. 3, 2023 Residents from two First Nations in northern Ontario are speaking out after threatening hand-written signs were posted in a wooded area, calling it a hate crime. The signs, written on cardboard with hateful and profane language, were posted on trees on Crown land in the Killarney area, which borders both Wiikwemkoong Unceded […]
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Read MoreReflection: Kinngait textiles have another moment – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 3, 2023 Nunatsiaq News reporter Andrea Sakiyama Kennedy looks back on getting an education on Inuit art I joined Nunatsiaq News in September, and it has been both exciting and challenging to learn more about the communities and culture of the people of Nunavut and Nunavik. Although I would never have described myself as […]
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Read MoreWearable SkoBots Full Of STEAM And Vanishing Indigenous Languages – Hackaday
January 3, 2023 [Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to children through building robots programmed with indigenous language lessons and founded the STEAM Connection to give them away. Through her Every Kid Gets a […]
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Read MoreCommunity-Engaged Archaeology as a Pathway to Reconciliation – The Tyee
Accepting truths about Indigenous connections to the land provides a foundation to begin healing past wrongs and creating bridges. We are standing in a circle on an expansive beach in front of an ancient rock-walled fish-trap — one of many archaeological sites on the small island of Xwe’etay (Lasqueti) in the Salish Sea between Vancouver […]
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