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Article content While the discovery of 215 children’s graves at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have galvanized Canadian public opinion, the horrors of the Canadian Indian Residential School system were never a secret. Generations of Ottawa administrators were fully aware of the system’s deadly reputation, and while polite society at the time may have balked at the occasional story of abuse or mass-death, they largely endorsed the system’s central mission of forcibly assimilating Indigenous children. In archives, filing cabinets and desk drawers across Canada l...

In one 1935 letter, a father is told his food will be cut off until he surrenders his children at school

Algae blooms becoming more intense, lasting longer in Qu'Appelle Valley lakes Thursday, May 27th 2021, 2:52 pm - 'We're going to get hit with some wicked ... algae if we don't start building policies,' advocate says First Nations leaders, community activists and university scientists say they're growing increasingly worried about the Qu'Appelle Valley chain of lakes, with water quality sometimes dipping below recreational use standards and toxic algae blooms increasing in severity. "We're going to get hit with some wicked blue-green-purple algae if we don't start building policies and protect...

"We do know that those blooms … are starting earlier. They're becoming more intense and they're lasting longer," Leavitt said, citing atmospheric warming as a leading cause. Leavitt published a paper last year that found toxins were present in the Qu'Appelle lakes during more days of the summer than 15 years earlier. Toxin levels in the lakes, at times, were above recreational advisory levels, his paper said. Blue-green algae looks like scum, fuzz or grass clippings on the surface of water.(Bruce Johnson) The algae blooms are also fed by phosphorus and nitrates released into the water sy...

  EDMONTON -- A vehicle rollover on Wednesday in the Athabasca area resulted in the death of a woman from Calling Lake. Athabasca RCMP responded to a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 813, approximately 120 kilometres north of Athabasca, at approximately 11 p.m. on Wednesday. A 78-year-old man from Calling Lake was driving a pick-up truck southbound when he lost control and entered an east ditch, causing the truck to roll multiple times, RCMP said. Emergency medical services responded to the scene and provided first aid to four of the five occupants involved in the collision, however, ...