Elders, trappers from Alberta First Nation ask province to protect bison herd
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Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon is seen at a news conference in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. Some trappers and elders from the Little Red River Cree Nation are asking the province to protect a dwindling Wabasca Wood Buffalo bison herd. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
LITTLE RED RIVER, Alta. – Some trappers and elders from Alberta’s Little Red River Cree Nation are asking the province to protect a dwindling Wabasca Wood Buffalo bison herd.
In a letter to Environment Minister Jason Nixon, they ask for immediate action to end unregulated hunting by legally protecting the herd.
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Jon Corbett s languages Cree# and Ancestral Code allow programming in Cree keywords using Cree concepts and metaphors. In addition to this language, Corbett s PhD research has led to his Indigenous Coding Framework, a work-in-progress that will help other Indigenous communities bring to computation not only their languages but their cultural logic and values as well. Corbett describes the challenges of this work, from the danger of accidentally including colonial understandings in such a system, to working with technologies that assume programming languages have Roman-character keywords.
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Progress update on the Government of Canada s commitment to clean water in First Nations communities
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OTTAWA, TRADITIONAL ALGONQUIN TERRITORY, ON, April 1, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada continues to work towards improving access to clean and safe drinking water for all First Nations communities.
Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, provided an update on the Government s commitment to end all long-term drinking water advisories on public systems on reserves.
As of March 31, 2021, 105 long-term drinking water advisories and 177 short-term drinking water advisories have been lifted and access to clean water has been restored to approximately 5,920 homes in First Nations communities.
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The Alberta Blue Cross has provided funding for programs in the Peace Country and across the province since the early summer as part of its COVID Community Roots Program.
One of the most recent donations was to the Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation.
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Rebecca Smillie, the Community Impact manager at Alberta Blue Cross, said the program was a perfect fit during COVID.
“They have a regular program with the seniors in the Grande Prairie area,” she said. “But, of course, with COVID and all the isolation of centers (housing), the seniors were physically isolating but also the emotional repercussions that goes along with that.
Owen Laukkanen s Pet Project
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Last summer, author Owen Laukkanen started Project Puppies. The plan was that he and a friend would drive across Canada, finding dogs that needed rescuing with the goal of finding them forever homes.
But summer turned into winter and now Project Puppies is a year-round mission.
To date, Project Puppies has rescued 71 dogs and one cat. That includes four or five litters of puppies and one pregnant dog who gave birth shortly after the rescue mission. They have all found homes or are in the process of being homed.
He also is chronicling the rescues in the blog Project Nomad.