We got this wrong : Elkhorn Resort apologizes for plan to rent out teepees winnipeg.ctvnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winnipeg.ctvnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Winnipeg Free Press
Senator Mary Jane McCallum wants the Senate to acknowledge the harmful and racist legacy of residential schools.
A Manitoba senator, who is also a residential school survivor, says the federal government’s 2008 apology for the harmful legacy of residential schools doesn t go far enough.
A Manitoba senator, who is also a residential school survivor, says the federal government’s 2008 apology for the harmful legacy of residential schools doesn t go far enough.
Sen. Mary Jane McCallum wants the red chamber to take its own step toward reconciliation, beginning with a motion that acknowledges the harmful and racist legacy of residential schools, in the wake of Ontario senator Lynn Beyak’s resignation last month.
Author of the article: The Graphic Leader
Publishing date: Feb 08, 2021 • February 8, 2021 • 3 minute read • A Perimeter Aviation flight over Winnipeg on Monday, June 22, 2020. Perimeter Aviation is one of five air operators that has been provided up to $12.03 million to ensure the continued supply of food, medical supplies, and other essential goods and services to remote Manitoba communities. Photo by Kevin King /Winnipeg Sun
Article content
By: Nicole Wong, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
The Government of Canada has reached a new agreement with the Manitoba Government to support essential air access to remote communities in Northern Manitoba.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Posted: Feb 06, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 6
Staff stand inside a COVID-19 testing site on Peguis First Nation in a December 2020 photo.(Peguis First Nation/Facebook)
Listening carefully to a client at her clinic, an eagle feather in her hand, Kathy Bird considers whether she should accept the client s tobacco offering, as she tries to determine whether she ll be able to offer the healing help that s being asked of her.
The eagle feather fan is to remove negative energy. Bird has plants nearby that she uses in traditional medicine, to make tonics and foot soaks.
Bird, 71, is a knowledge keeper and part of a larger group of traditional Indigenous healers who have offered vital support as COVID-19 has spread through First Nations communities across Canada.
Posted: Jan 29, 2021 4:13 PM CT | Last Updated: January 29
By next week, all 63 First Nations in the province will have started vaccinating people designated as a priority, the Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team said Friday.(File photo from Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The First Nations population in Manitoba continues to be the hardest hit by COVID-19, with disproportionate infection rates, the Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team said Friday.
The response team s Leona Star said in a weekly update that First Nations people currently make up 70 to 80 per cent of all active cases in the province, and have an 18 per cent test positivity rate.