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She is one of the lucky ones because her house west of the Fraser River is still standing. But Dunstan, a former chief of the Lytton First Nation, doesn’t know when she can return to the ranch without phone service or access to the services in town that were wiped out by the flames.
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“We don’t have all the services that a person requires to live back home. And I’m not sure when that’s going to happen. We don’t have any ambulance service. We don’t have doctors. We don’t have anything. … The closest grocery store would be an hour away,” Dunstan said this week.
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Michael Potestio, Local Journalism Initiative
Red paint was splashed in the area behind the Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. The paint was spilled outside a building where former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci was helming a pipeline consultation meeting involving First Nations representatives.
Image Credit: Michael Potestio, Local Journalism Initiative May 25, 2021 - 3:30 PM The trial of three members of an outspoken First Nations protest group opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project began in Kamloops provincial court on Tuesday, May 25, with opening statements. Nicole Manuel, Chantel Manuel and Isha Jules, members of the Tiny House Warriors, face charges of mischief, causing a disturbance and assault, stemming from a conflict with security and police outside a Dec. 10, 2018, meeting on the campus of Thompson Rivers University.
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The trial of three members of an outspoken First Nations protest group opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project began in Kamloops provincial court on Tuesday (May 25), with opening statements.
Nicole Manuel, Chantel Manuel and Isha Jules, members of the Tiny House Warriors, face charges of mischief, causing a disturbance and assault, stemming from a conflict with security and police outside a Dec. 10, 2018, meeting on the campus of Thompson Rivers University.
The trio has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The incident took place at TRU’s Campus Activity Centre, where a closed-door meeting involving Natural Resources Canada, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci, government officials, Trans Mountain personnel and First Nations leadership was being held.
The trial of three members of an outspoken First Nations protest group opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project began in Kamloops provincial court on Tuesday (May 25), with opening . . .