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Hedley celebrating 125 year anniversary with weekend of special events

Hedley is celebrating its 125th birthday this weekend. ....

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BCWS plans to conduct a prescribed burn between Princeton and Hedley - Penticton News

BCWS plans to conduct a prescribed burn between Princeton and Hedley - Penticton News
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Burned churches stir deep Indigenous ambivalence over faith of forefathers

But for many Indigenous people, churches summon contradictory and conflicting emotions: they are the spaces built by their ancestors where generations were baptised and buried, but they also represent the destruction of Indigenous culture and more than a century of fear and physical abuse.
From the 19th century until the 1990s, more than 150,000 Indigenous children were obliged to attend state-funded schools in a campaign to forcibly assimilate them into Canadian society. More than half were run by the Catholic church; thousands of children died of disease, neglect and other causes.
“Those innocent souls were scarified for colonialism,” said Amelia McComber, an Indigenous practitioner and theologian. “And that sacrifice has become the focal point of the hurt and the trauma that has gone on for generations in our communities.” ....

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'Temperature rising': First Nations leaders condemn rash of church fires across Canada

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It looks like Molotov cocktails of some sort were used, smashing a window and burning the window frame, but failing to spread flames deep inside.
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“They were both intentionally set, no doubt about that,” said Tom Littlechild, director of emergency services for the Siksika Nation. “But both structures are very intact.”
The same cannot be said of some other churches.
Like everyone, Littlechild thinks he knows what might be behind the attacks. ....

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'Temperature rising': First Nations leaders condemn rash of church fires across Canada

'Temperature rising': First Nations leaders condemn rash of church fires across Canada
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