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Private member s resolution path toward reconciliation
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Manitoba’s legislative assembly is considering a private member’s resolution today to add a land acknowledgment to its daily proceedings.
Most Winnipeg Jets and Bomber fans know it by heart, as do city councillors and most students.
Most Winnipeg Jets and Bomber fans know it by heart, as do city councillors and most students.
It’s an Indigenous land acknowledgement that’s said before most important gatherings in this province except for daily proceedings at the Manitoba legislature.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 8:54 PM CT | Last Updated: April 30
Former Manitoba MLA Kevin Chief got his COVID-19 vaccination at a new Indigenous vaccine clinic at the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre on Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg on Thursday.(CBC)
A prominent former Manitoba MLA delivered a message Thursday for anyone who is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination, but has yet to get one. We need you, said Kevin Chief, who joined Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew in getting the jab at new urban Indigenous vaccine clinics that opened on Thursday. Please get this vaccine as soon as possible, said the former NDP MLA for Point Douglas, who is now a community development adviser with True North Sports and Entertainment. It s so, so important.