Each day we are confronted with news about the trucker convoy. Each day we are asked to believe their rhetoric about the curtailing of rights and freedoms while excusing the symbols of hate, the coopting of the trauma of residential …
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Province delays implementation of K-6 curriculum By Chris Mah Poy, Justice and Networks Support & First Third Animator, Chinook Winds Region This week, Alberta Minister of Education Adriana LaGrange announced that it would delay the implementation of the province’s draft …
Season of Creation Events
Treaty 7 Day, Truth and Reconcilation Day and Sisters of Spirit Day From Tony Snow, Indigenous Minister Chinook Winds Region: This September and early October, there are many significant days and observances that call us to live out our Calls …
Speaking out on the Alberta Draft K-6 Social Studies Curriculum
At the Chinook Winds Regional Council Gathering in May 2021, a petition was passed to write to the Alberta Provincial Government regarding the Draft Kindergarten to Grade 6 Studies Curriculum. The proposal was brought forward by Ralph Connor Memorial United, …
‘We need to do more than be sorry’
By Treena Duncan, Executive Minister, Chinook Winds Region We are all processing the devastating and heartbreaking news about the remains of 215 children buried at the Kamloops Residential School in different ways. I know that you join me in deep …
A Blight on the Nation
By Tony Snow, Indigenous Minister, Chinook Winds Region It is with sadness that we reflect upon the 215 children, who died as a result of genocide. They died because they were being forced to conform to a society that valued …
‘There are more, you know’
By Lee Spice, Pastoral Relations Minister, Chinook Winds Region For years I have prayed for the children, hoping that some mystery of the universe would carry my love back in time and they might feel less alone as they faced …