The 12-year-old Indigenous girl who was handcuffed and then detained for 45 minutes by the Vancouver Police Department on a downtown street Dec. 20 after trying to open an account at the Bank of Montreal says she doesn’t even want to think about what happened anymore. “I was scared,” Tori-Anne said Monday. “The whole thing…
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House by house, the jerseys seemed to appear overnight. They were hung in front windows and on porches in memory of a nine-year-old hockey player who died of a brain tumour on Friday. For people in The Pas, Man., and on the nearby Opaskwayak Cree Nation, the massive show of support was a reminder of how…
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Kennlin Barlow remembers the moment he first thought of becoming a filmmaker. It was his older sister, Natasha Barlow, who inspired him. She sparked his interest in moving pictures by showing the four-year-old Bride of Chucky. “Even though it scared the living hell out of me, after that I just couldn’t stop watching movies,” said Kennlin.…
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A coroner’s inquest begins Monday into the 2013 death of Carmacks, Yukon, resident Cynthia Blackjack. The first two days of the inquest are scheduled to happen in Carmacks at the local community centre. On Wednesday, it resumes at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre in Whitehorse. If weather drops below -35 C, hearings in Carmacks may be rescheduled,…
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Public hearings on the closure and remediation plan for Yellowknife’s defunct Giant Mine begin Monday. That’s after 13 years of study, planning, assessment and discussion. “It’s monumental,” said Natalie Plato, deputy director of the Giant Mine Remediation Project, which is leading the cleanup. The project is seeking a water licence for a 20-year term and…
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The chief of Smith’s Landing First Nation near Fort Smith, N.W.T, is calling on the territorial government to speak out against a northern Alberta mining project. “The government of the Northwest Territories is strangely silent … on the oil sands projects,” Chief Gerry Cheezie said. Cheezie said that N.W.T. Premier Caroline Cochrane should be hosting meetings…
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