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From traditional knowledge to FireSmart, Okanagan leaders focus on wildfire risks

Westbank First Nation Chief Robert Louie is cautiously optimistic about how this year’s fire season will play out. It’s already much less traumatic than this time last year, when theMcDougall Creek wildfire destroyed nearly 200 homes and large swaths of forest. “But we’re not out of the woods yet,” Louie …

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Traditional Indigenous gardens flourish in Winnipeg, nurturing body and soul – Winnipeg

Gardening season is underway across the county and traditional Indigenous gardens are flourishing in Winnipeg. Audrey Logan, a Cree-Metis Plant Knowledge Keeper has a community garden that bears fruit from generations of knowledge. The garden has no rows, no tilling, and no fertilizer. You won’t see neat lines of tilled …

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Journey towards reconciliation includes access to traditional ceremony

This is the third story in a Global News series called Journey Towards Reconciliation. To see previous stories, click here. Alberta singer-songwriter Donita Large has leaned on music as a way to heal for most of her life. When she was a child she would sing, loudly, at the Catholic …

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CBE considers transitioning schools on modified calendar to traditional calendar next September

The Calgary Board of Education is considering transitioning schools on the modified calendar to the traditional calendar next school year, and it wants to hear what families who have kids attending these schools think. Celeste Watamanuk has two kids attending CBE schools, but their schedules are totally different.  Her eldest …

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