Edmonton s Black-owned market celebrates first anniversary
Edmonton’s Black-owned market celebrated its first anniversary Saturday with an outdoor market featuring shops, services, and live entertainment.
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Posted: Jul 24, 2021 6:43 PM MT | Last Updated: July 25
Rochelle Ignacio and Ivan Touko are co-founders of the volunteer-run Black-Owned Market Edmonton.(Manuel Carrillos Avalos/CBC)
Edmonton s Black-owned market celebrated its first anniversary Saturday with an outdoor market featuring shops, services, and live entertainment.
The Black-Owned Market Edmonton (BOM YEG) is made up of volunteers with an aim to support and build up Black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives and community organizations. There s nothing that s been like this market in Edmonton before we started, said co-founder and chief business officer Rochelle Ignacio.
Sister of N.S. shooting victim organizes memorial walk in rural Alberta
A woman who lost a sister and her family in last year’s mass killing in Nova Scotia organized a walk in Cardiff, Alta. on Sunday to commemorate the tragedy.
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‘Even though this happened all the way in Nova Scotia, they were my family, they were Albertans’
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Posted: Apr 18, 2021 5:30 PM MT | Last Updated: April 18
From left, Emily Tuck, Jolene Oliver and Aaron Tuck are shown in a family handout photo. The family from Portapique, N.S. were among the victims of the mass killing in Nova Scotia last year. (Tammy Oliver-McCurdie/The Canadian Press)