The Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly is underway as several chiefs attempted to get ousted national chief RoseAnne Archibald on the agenda, but failed.
Brenda Lee Marcoux says Quebec's current policies around First Nations point-of-sale provincial sales tax exemptions are discriminatory, and wants to see change.
An early spring wildfire, which grew to 20 hectares before it was contained by helicopter bucketing, prompted an evacuation alert for the Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation last week
Two wildfires: one near Williams Lake and another near Pemberton, popped up Wednesday as dry conditions in the Kamloops and Cariboo regions persit with 23 active wildfires in B.C.
Crews with the municipal fire department and BC Wildfire Service were able to quickly knock the fire down and prevent it from spreading to nearby buildings.
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The South East Skwish Creek was discovered burning about 43 km northwest of Ashcroft Tuesday, and is estimated at 20 hectares in size and classified as "out of control."
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