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'“Diamond” Jim McConkey was an accomplished ski instructor for many years before he came up to Whistler.'

A crofter who fell out with his neighbours put up "offensive" signs about them and tailgated their vehicle.

Yates County has a new public health director Penn Yan

Last year, health-care workers logged more hours in overtime than they had in a decade, according to a new report detailing the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on Canadian health-care workers.

While Canada’s reconciliation project with Indigenous people is showing signs of progress, it's moving much slower than many had hoped.

"You’re not alone." That’s the message to the family of Const. Andrew Hong from Brenda Orr, the widow of OPP Const. David Mounsey, who was killed in the line of

Two traditional knowledge keepers say that looking up at the stars in the night sky will help ground Indigenous people in who they are.

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation The above represent a potential 33 Calls to Action for which the federal government is directly or jointly accountable. And not a word was actually changed! What does that say about the government’s commitment to honesty, transparency, accountability – and respect? People in general and Indigenous people in particular have had their trust in governments at all levels eroded by the deceit, manipulations and overly loose playing with language. Hidi...

June marks six years since the TRC delivered their Calls to Action on the legacy of the Indian residential school system. Six months later, in December 2015, the commissioners delivered their final report, encompassing six volumes, and called what happened in the schools “cultural genocide.” Calls to Action 71 through 76 deal with the children who went missing during their attendance in residential schools. Falling under the subtitle of “Children and Burial Information,” it calls, in pa...

Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School announced last week by the Tkemlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder. Six years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools levelled 94 Calls to Action, few of them have been completed. (LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca) June 01, 2021 - 6:...