Winnipeg Free Press By: Niigaan Sinclair | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, May. 7, 2021
For Indigenous people, a lodge is a meeting place.
It’s for teaching, sharing and gifting.
It’s a place where we raise our children, perform ceremonies and forge relationships.
It’s a place where respect is paramount and everyone is expected to contribute in some way.
A lodge is place where we welcome newcomers and create treaty, share food and create bonds that can last forever.
Nearly every Indigenous nation has a lodge of some kind. Some are more permanent than others, while some are built year-to-year and even season-to-season.
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Fort Frances council is expected to make a vote and choose two different names for Colonization Road East and Colonization Road West next Monday.
On Monday, the Planning and Development Executive Committee agreed on nine names that will be presented to council in order to vote on two names to replace Colonization Road East and Colonization Road West.
Members of the committee agreed to have different names for both roads to avoid confusion for emergency and ambulance personnel as they are not connected to each other.
Colonization Road East will be renamed to one of the following five names: Agamiing (at the shore) Drive, Shoreline Drive, Harmony Drive, Nibi (water) Drive or Sunrise Drive.
WINNIPEG A few dozen people attended an anti-mask rally at The Forks on Saturday for the second week in a row. Demonstrators gathered by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights around 2 p.m. and then headed out for a loop around The Forks before heading out on Winnipeg streets. The Forks rally was one of two anti-restriction protests planned for the weekend. The second rally was held Saturday evening in Winkler. CTV news was there, and observed about 70 people gathering peacefully in a park. Enforcement officials were in attendance, but it is not known if any tickets were issued.
WINNIPEG A few dozen people attended an anti-restriction rally at the Forks on Saturday, for the third weekend in a row. Demonstrators gathered by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights around 2 p.m. and then headed out for a loop around the Forks before heading out on Winnipeg streets. The Forks rally is one of two anti-restriction protests planned on Saturday, the other in Winkler. The province urged all Manitobans to obey public health orders in order to avoid fines in an enforcement bulletin on Friday. Enforcement officers will be present at any rallies, large gatherings, and events this weekend and will be closely monitoring events, the province said in the bulletin. Officials advise the choice to defy public health orders is a serious offence and violators will be held to account.
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Chris (Sky) Saccoccia , in yellow, at an anti-mask rally at the Forks in Winnipeg Sunday. Saccoccia has been charged with breach of undertaking and faces charges under Ontario’s Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.
An anti-mask conspiracy theorist who encouraged hundreds of Manitobans to break COVID-19 public health orders at a Sunday rally at The Forks was arrested Tuesday, when he did the same thing in Thunder Bay.
An anti-mask conspiracy theorist who encouraged hundreds of Manitobans to break COVID-19 public health orders at a Sunday rally at The Forks was arrested Tuesday, when he did the same thing in Thunder Bay.