For the 29th year in a row, Oakland County has earned top honors for its fiscal reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.
The county earned the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2019, which was published in 2020. The CAFR discloses the county s finances in full detail to anyone who wants to review them, especially those who seek to invest in Oakland County.
âThis year has been full of challenges and our Fiscal Services team has done a tremendous job, maintaining top notch services to taxpayers throughout the pandemic,â said Oakland County Executive David Coulter. âThey facilitated the countyâs use of federal CARES Act funds in our pandemic response while implementing a balanced budget, maintaining our AAA bond rating, and publishing the CAFR report at the beginning of the pandemic. This recognition from their government p
Bearskin Diary
Alissa McArthur
Bearskin Diary is a humane, unflinching portrayal of a woman asserting her voice and claiming space in an often hostile nation.
From the 1960s to the late ’80s, the Canadian government forcibly removed over twenty thousand Indigenous children from their families, sending them to be fostered or adopted by white middle-class families. As with the residential school tragedy, the children taken in the “Sixties Scoop” grew up severed from their Indigenous families and culture. In Carol Daniels’s debut novel,
Bearskin Diary, Sandy Pelly, a survivor of the Scoop, embarks on a career as a news reporter in 1980s Saskatchewan. As she connects to local Indigenous people through her reporting, Sandy begins to yearn for a deeper connection to her Cree heritage.