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In 2016, the Nathan E. Stewart tugboat ran aground and sank in the First Nation's fishing territory on B.C.'s Central Coast, spilling 110,000 liters of diesel and heavy oils into a marine harvesting area called Gale Pass, affecting cultural and economic activities to this day.
LOVED ones have visited their elderly relatives indoors for the first time since the pandemic started. Ridgeway Rise Care Home allowed parents and children to reunite safely inside the building for 30-minutes by pre-booking then having their temperature checked on arrival along with a rapid coronavirus test and filling out a test-and-trace form. Zoe Hopkins said: If someone had said two years ago that a global pandemic would stop me from seeing my parents, hugging them, or holding their hands I would not have believed it. Then Covid-19 arrived and the whole world changed. There were times we stood outside their window to talk to them, there were times we were behind a screen, then there were times we couldn’t go in at all.
Monkey Beach follows a woman returning to her hometown to discover how dysfunctional her family has become. The largest indigenous film festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Māoriland, is returning bigger than ever when it returns to Kāpiti next month. The festival has announced its programme for 2021 to coincide with Waitangi Day. Now in its eighth year, the festival will present 120 films and 50 events from 80 indigenous nations next month in Kāpiti, north of Wellington. Running from March 24-28 across several venues in Ōtaki, the theme for this year’s festival is Auahatanga Mō Te Ngākaupai or creative positivity.