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The Kamloops Film Society has partnered with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc to bring Canadian Indigenous films to the Paramount Theatre

As we learned, it wasn’t all about paddling the gruelling Canadian rivers en route to town of Peace River from Winnipeg in the summer of 1992. There was a…

The province said the deal includes an undisclosed one-time payment from B.C. Hydro and ongoing payments for 70 years.

The Tsay Keh Dene people were forcibly relocated to reserves outside of their territory when more than 175,000 hectares were flooded, including villages, graveyards, prime hunting, trapping and fishing grounds, and other culturally significant sites.

ARCHITECT Rhone & Iredale Architects TEXT D’Arcy Jones In 1965, Vancouver was a frontier town in ways that seem far-fetched today. That year, BC Hydro hired Rhone & Iredale Architects to work on one of the largest dams in the world—all because chairman Dr. Gordon Shrum liked a wooden sundeck they designed for his son. […]

Adrian Anthony Persaud, the 26-year-old cane cutter of Bennett Dam, Rosignol who viciously stabbed his ex-partner on Saturday, has died by suicide.This was confirmed by Police Commander for Regional Division #5 Kurleigh Simon, who told the News Room

‘We can’t just plug everything up and act like there’s not going to be ramifications.’

Indigenous Media Initiatives May 1 - May 11, 2022

BC sacrificed the Kwadacha Nation’s territory to build a dam. Where does today’s quest for new energy intersect with reconciliation? A special two-part feature.

HUDSON'S HOPE, B.C. - The W.A.C Bennett Dam will reopen to visitors for the first time in two years this sprin...