Stoney Nakoda

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“We’re still kind of digesting this, but we’re bridge-building – elder Una and I. We’re not happy with the decision, but we’re going to spring off it and something good is gonna come from it.”

Kyleen Annette Rose Hunter has been located safe and unharmed, according to Cochrane RCMP.

“We are dealing with highway speeds because it is a highway off-ramp, it is going to require safety audits and we don’t want to rush the process"

“It is important to have different perspectives and we hope that the people who are attending will bring their perspectives and comments and impressions of what happened."

Canada has a fever. Our north is already warming at two to three times the mean global average. Even in the increasingly unlikely event that the world does manage to come together to keep mean temperature increases to below 2 Celsius, Canada is rapidly on its way to being at least 3 C hotter later in this century.

The lights were off and students and staff were on spring break when a vehicle crashed into Mînî Thnî Community School last week.

“I think it’s going to be a really successful program with a lot of the community’s input,” said Dixon, manager of the Stoney Adult Wellness Centre. “Coming into this position, I’m going to make sure that we incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, we’re going to incorporate Stoney Nakoda culture and ceremony.”

Despite weather suggesting the contrary, wildfire season has returned to the province, taking up the better part of the year running from March 1 to Oct. 31. While snow can linger well into May and make periodic appearances any other day of the year, the hot spots for potential fire dangers are around the corner.

Cochrane RCMP are laying impaired driving charges from one Îyârhe Nakoda First Nation resident to another, following a fatal collision on Highway 1A last summer that took the life of a Fort Saskatchewan woman.