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Carrier Sekani Family Services awarded prestigious award for reconciliation efforts SHARE ON: Carrier Sekani Family Services is one of the recipients of the 2021 British Columbia Reconciliation Award. CSFS received the award in recognition of their Nowh Guna “Our Way” Foot in Both Worlds Carrier Agility Training program. Every year the province awards the Reconciliation award to those who have demonstrated commitment to furthering reconciliation efforts with Indigenous people in BC. “I am...

A proposed new building for the healing facility was denied because it would be built on farmland. Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at . SHARES Premier John Horgan and Agriculture Minister Lana Popham both say they support the proposed new First Nations healing centre after the province’s land commission rejected its construction...

Horgan responded that making sure communities have treatment capacity is a top priority, and the government wants to see the facility built. “I’m not aware the project has been stopped,” he said. “I am aware it has not yet begun.” In a March 4 letter to three cabinet ministers — Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Murray Rankin; Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister Lana Popham; and Mental Health and Addictions Minister Sheila Malcolmson — Cheslatta Carrier Chief C...