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Hundreds of former students of St Michael’s residential school near Duck Lake have come together this week for a special and emotional event.
The week long gathering was the idea of Elders and council at Beardy’s Okemasis Cree Nation. Fenton Favel attended the school from 1979 to 1987 and was only 12 when he first arrived. He told
paNOW he is grateful for the opportunity to share his own story in a safe space.
“It’s a good experience and I think what they are doing here is a excellent idea,” he said.
Acknowledging his own mix of good and bad feelings about being back, Favel said he has found comfort being around his peers.
There are plenty of vaccines to go around in northern Saskatchewan, according to Health Minister Paul Merriman, and northern leaders should communicate that with their communities.
Merriman told Gormley guest host Mike Couros there are tens of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines available for all northern communities.
“We have 42,000 vaccines up there, plus Indigenous Services Canada has an additional 14,000. Now, that’s on top of the pharmacies and the SHA which probably have another 400,000 vaccines throughout the province,” he said.
On Monday, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) asked the province for immediate help with resources and the ability to impose public health orders to try and stop a rapidly spreading COVID-19 infection on the Buffalo River Dene First Nation.
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Allan Adam on Thursday said lockdown measures imposed last week to address an outbreak on the Black Lake Denesulin First Nation are difficult to enforce in the absence of a public health order. The outbreak was declared last Friday by the health authority and requires people to quarantine if they test positive, stick to their bubbles and refrain from unnecessary travel to and from the community.
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Adam said authorities cannot force people to follow those rules. The province ended all COVID-19 restrictions on July 11.
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