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Article content At first glance, the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino looks like any other carefully renovated historic property, but its history is unlike any other hotel in the world. From 1912 to 1970, the St. Eugene Mission near Cranbrook, B.C. was a residential school for indigenous children. The facility was the first comprehensive Indian Industrial and Residential school to be built in the Canadian West, one of an eventual 130 residential schools operating in Canada between 1831 and 1996. St. Eugene was built to accommodate 126 students, but as many as 200 students lived there during ...

Program to reduce spread of COVID-19 in crowded homes expanded to all Alberta communities In a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among people living in crowded houses, the Alberta government has expanded a program that offers hotel rooms and culturally appropriate meals for people who need to self-isolate. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2021 12:00 PM MT | Last Updated: February 1 Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver announced the expansion of a COVID-19 support program to cover all of Alberta on Monday.(CBC) In a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among people living in cr...

  CALGARY -- An increase in COVID-19 cases in many of Alberta’s First Nations has community leaders worried for the provincial Indigenous population.  A number of the highest concentrated case counts in Alberta can be traced back to reserves, where virus spread has largely followed a different trajectory than in urban areas.  According to data from the federal government, the rate of cases in those living on reserves is 40 per cent higher than the rate in Canada’s general population.  Marlene Poitras, who is Alberta’s Regional Chief in the Assembly of First Nations, tells CTV N...

Maskwacis RCMP are seeking the public’s help in identifying a minivan involved in a “serious” hit and run on Dec. 28.

Article content On Dec. 28, at approximately 9 p.m., Maskwacis RCMP were called to investigate a hit-and -un collision involving a pedestrian and a minivan on Four Mile Road; located on the Samson Cree Nation. The 27-year-old female victim was treated by Maskwacis EMS and transported to an area hospital via STARS Ambulance. Information was learned that the driver fled the scene immediately after striking the victim and police are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the person(s) responsible for this hit and run, and with locating the suspect vehicle. We apologize, but this vid...