Alberta RCMP announced Friday that four people are facing at least 27 charges related to a pair of carjackings, stolen drugs and a pickup that was driven into a pharmacy and then torched.
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St Paul, Alberta, Canada – Scattered across a rolling prairie landscape in northeastern Alberta are small towns, hamlets and First Nations reserves, most within just a few minutes’ drive of each other.
But the neighbours here are living worlds apart. In one world are members of the white-majority settler community, whose local heritage is traceable to an average of five generations. In the other are the Indigenous people whose ancestors have lived here for millennia.
They are old foes whose suspicion of one another dates back more than a hundred years.
Sacred, spiritual pacts
During the mid- to late-1800s, Canada saw a boom in European immigration. The Dominion Lands Act of 1872 offered free and fertile homesteads for the eager, new settlers.
Rural Alberta food co-operative bridges gap between producers, consumers
A group of farmers in east-central Alberta is banding together to create a food co-operative that markets their collective products directly to consumers.
Social Sharing It s about us being able to grow the products in our area. and keep that money in our area.
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 8:30 AM MT | Last Updated: February 18
Mandy Melnyk, from Meadow Creek Farms in northeast Alberta, is one of the founding members of The Gathering Place Co-op.(Josee St-Onge/CBC)