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Three northern Saskatchewan communities ‘pause’ Canada Day Nathaniel Dove © Getty Images Leaders of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, La Ronge and Air Ronge decided not to celebrate Canada Day in 2021. Instead they focused on marking National Indigenous People s Day. Leaders of three northern Saskatchewan communities are pressing “pause” on Canada Day this year and chose instead to focus on marking National Indigenous People’s Day on Monday. Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson said she and the mayors of neighbouring La Ronge and Air Ronge did so to “to honour the 215 children that were discovered, the remains that were discovered… in Kamloops, B.C.,” and “the many other children that didn’t make it from residential school.”

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