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I just don’t understand people like David Staples. His column in the Wednesday paper seemed to advocate easing restrictions so that we can enjoy Mr. Kenney’s “best summer ever.” What does he not get? We’ve lived through almost 15 months of this, mostly pulling together to keep from losing control. We gave up Christmas, mostly because Kenney was slow and late in imposing the professionally recommended restrictions.
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Buckingham Palace won’t be acting on a letter from Treaty Six chiefs to intervene in the selection of the Queen’s next stand-in to Canada, the Governor General. On Jan. 27, the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations wrote Queen Elizabeth II directly, expressing concern after the monarch’s representative former astronaut Julie Payette resigned six days earlier after a bombshell investigation found she presided over a “toxic” and abusive workplace. “Thanks for the enquiry,” the Queen’s own communications secretary Donal McCabe told Windspeaker.com in an email, “but this is a matter for the Canadian Government.” Payette’s unprecedented resignation the first time in Canada’s history, in fact led to her temporary replacement by Richard Wagner, the Supreme Court of Canada’s Chief Justice.
Kehewin Chief Watchmaker named new Treaty Six Grand Chief
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The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations has a new Grand Chief to start the new year.
Kehewin Chief Vernon Watchmaker was appointed the new Grand Chief on January 1st. Watchmaker has been Chief of the Kehewin Cree Nation since 2018 after serving on council for two terms.
The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations was created in 1993 with the purpose of “serving as the United Political voice for those Treaty Nations who are signatories of Treaty No. 6 for the continued protection of the fundamental Treaty, Inherent and Human Rights of the Treaty peoples of those Nations.”