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02/10/2021 10:00 AM EST
Not so long ago, it was all the rage to speculate about a spring election. The vaccine rollout had begun, the Liberals were polling well and a recovery-focused budget seemed like a logical election platform. But then the thing with Pfizer happened, and then the thing with Moderna, and now it’s worth asking: has the window for a spring election closed?
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Louise Bernice Halfe is the type of person who remembers simple acts of kindness, such as the Grade 2 teacher who sent home a bag of high-heeled shoes for her mother – even though she and her family lived in a log shack in the bush.
Ms. Halfe, who was given a Cree name by an elder that loosely translates to “Sky Dancer” in English, also remembers the Coke she was offered by a stranger who spotted her in a hotel lobby when she was a child – a gesture that followed a painful incident with family that saw Ms. Halfe running to try to report violence to police.
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SASKATOON An award-winning Indigenous poet and former residential school student has been selected as the next Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Louise Bernice Halfe, who is also known by her Cree name, Sky Dancer, has used poetry to confront Canada s fraught history with Indigenous people. She is Canada s ninth poet laureate. She also was Saskatchewan s second poet laureate. Raised on the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta, Halfe attended Blue Quills Residential School as a child and went on to become a social worker. The role of the Parliamentary Poet Laureate is to write poetry, especially for use in Parliament on important occasions.