A well-known Manitoulin Island woman will be leading a national indigenous business organization.
Regional Indigenous economic development leader Dawn Madahbee Leach is the new chair of the National Indigenous Economic Development Board.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller announced her appointment for a five-year term at the end of April.
She was the first Indigenous woman in Canada to lead a regional financial lending institution as general manager of the Waubetek Business Development Corporation based out of Birch Island since 1988.
A member of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation on Manitoulin, she replaces Clarence Louie of B.C. who stepped down after a 14-year stint leading the board.
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The Globe and Mail Drew Hayden Taylor Published April 9, 2021
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This week I am starting work on a screenplay, adapted from one of my plays. And in this ever increasing politically correct world, there is a dilemma I will have to face at some point: How frequently should I use, or not use, the “I” word in the script? I am, of course, referring to the word Indian, which is a term still commonly used in many First Nations.
Its origins are frequently thought of as a mistake of geography when several hundred years ago tourists began showing up looking for cheap cigarettes and gas and mistook Turtle Island for India. Once universal, the term is now considered more racist than descriptive.
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B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and international climate-change activist Greta Thunberg will receive honorary degrees from the Universitry of British Columbia.
UBC announced the news in a March 31 news release that named 16 others who will be receiving honorary degrees the university s highest honour in late May this spring.
(The names of the other 16 recipients including four prominent members of B.C. First Nations and three renowned medical researchers are included at the bottom of this article.)
Henry, a former epidemiologist-physician with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, is the official face of the provincial response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and is widely known as a calming influence and a dispenser of scientifically validated information.