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PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE — A longtime educator in Portage la Prairie, James Kostuchuk is known for h...

By Cornell Pashe Portage Urban Indigenous Peoples Coalition

By Cornell Pashe Portage Urban Indigenous Peoples Coalition

Southport held a ceremony and commemoration for the inaugural National Day of Truth and Reconciliation September 30, 2021.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Nothing for free Back to video Of all the myths surrounding First Nations people in Canada, none is more pervasive than this one: “Indigenous peoples have everything paid for; they don’t have to pay for their housing, education or medical expenses.” It is somewhat understandable that non-Indigenous people think this way. After all, the way First Nations are funded in Canada is a complicated process entrenched ...

Indigenous Community Coordinator – Portage Urban Indigenous People’s Coalition A heart attack that occurs when the left anterior descending (LAD) artery is blocked has a scary name – it’s called a widowmaker. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Breaking the stigma Back to video Darryl Taylor suffered this type of heart attack several years ago, and has been recovering ever since. So when he felt similar symptoms coming on one day in February,...

By Cornell Pashe A recent ‘letter to the editor’ in this publication highlighted the depth of ignorance some local citizens continue to have about Indigenous peoples. I grew up experiencing this type of racism firsthand, and it shocks and saddens me to read such harmful words in 2021. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) ’94 Calls to Action’ is already 6 years old, yet it often seems as though change is happening at a snail’s pace, if at all. We apologize, but this video ...

By Cornell Pashe Imagine speaking a completely different language than your parents. How would you tell them when you were hungry? If you were hurting? How would you tell them that you love them? We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Losing my Language Back to video When John Kistabish left the Amos Indian residential school in Quebec, he could no longer speak Algonquin, while his parents could not speak French, the language that he had been taught in t...

Article content Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” Seventy-six years ago, the world was horrified as the extent of the Holocaust extermination was unveiled. Six million Jews were systematically persecuted and slaughtered in under five years. We don’t often hear about the five million others whose lives ended under the Nazi regime as well—priests and pastors, Jehovah’s Witnesses, communists, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, homosexuals, resistan...