On October 1st Howie Roman celebrated his 50th anniversary of moving to Cortes with his wife and VW van. This led to an unexpected interview on Folk U, in which Howie talks about: the New York he remembers; why he wasn’t a draft dodger; coming to Cortes in 1971; when the power lines were only on the main road; growing your own food; the stores; how the floorboards bounced at a dance at Gorge Hall; the importance of radio in the 1970s-90s.
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B.C. pays Blueberry River First Nations $65 million as 195 projects approved before court victory proceed
By Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
Blueberry River First Nations signed an agreement with British Columbia Thursday, outlining first steps toward healing the land and restoring the nations’ ability to exercise its Treaty 8 Rights, which the province breached by permitting and encouraging industrial development on a vast scale, according to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling in June.
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Why I’ll forever remember Truth & Reconciliation Day 2021
Editor’s note: The author is writing about a march from Tla’amin Nation lands to Willingdon Beach in Powell River.
qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
I attended the Truth and Reconciliation Day march on September 30. I was photographing it for qathet Living, so a lot of my attention was focused on taking pictures, however, there were multiple moments where I would stop and look around and be filled with a thousand different emotions.
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Powell River Paper Mill changes its name to reconcile with First Nation
qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Catalyst mill is changing its name, in collaboration with Tla’amin Nation. The Paper Excellence company will now be called tiskʷat (tees-kwat); the English translation is ‘big river.’
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Lorelei Williams says Canadians must believe the dark truth of genocide
By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer spoke with Lorelei Williams, an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) and their families, ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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