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Calgary’s Aboriginal Awareness Week kicked off Monday June 19th. The event highlights the need to celebrate, appreciate and learn about Indigenous culture.

Calgary's Aboriginal Awareness Week kicked off Monday June 19th. The event highlights the need to celebrate, appreciate and learn about Indigenous culture.

Indigenous-owned culture, art, music and business showcase brings needed traction for Western Canada’s Indigenous founders and organizations — while...

Members of Alberta’s Indigenous community say Pope Francis should immediately apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system upon his announcement that he is willing to visit Canada.

  SASKATOON -- Anishinaabe and Mohawk fashion designer Lesley Hampton is apologizing after a dress featured in 2019 that used imagery of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people recently sparked outrage online. She said she never intended the piece to be triggering but instead, give the missing and murdered a spotlight in a traditionally white-dominated world of fashion. A photo of the eponymous Indigenous-owned fashion brand’s red-spotted, cream-coloured dress was recently reposted by the Cree model who wore it two years ago for a photoshoot. Critics online sa...