Stoney Nakoda

Members of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation recognized the 215 children found in a mass grave at the former Kamloops Residential School by tying 215 teddy bears to a fence along the Trans-Canada Highway.

“We want a bylaw that will show drug dealers aren’t allowed on the reserve."

“The garbage and litter is beginning to be very noticeable. It was my motivation to say, I know many people in the community love the environment and they pick-up litter themselves, so why not have a organized day where people can see others and have it be a great community spirit event. … World Environment Day is a great day to come together as safe as we can under COVID and say, ‘let’s do it.’”

Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing teenager believed to be in the area of Cochrane, Stoney Nakoda First Nation or Calgary.

“This initiative is all about collaboration. A project of this scale will bring each partner’s perspectives to the table. In coming together, we can take on challenges and opportunities in the Bow Valley at a regional scale."

Early details report that a Cessna lost engine power on approach and did an emergency landing on the golf course itself."

“There’s a number of different reasons why the doctors in that clinic said they are leaving. Some of them literally don’t like government, and literally beyond that with COVID we know that family physicians on the fee for services model are challenged,” Notley said.

“We’ve seen massive fluctuations in the amount of maintenance staff, the amount of trail staff, the amount of maintenance work being done over the last decade, and it’s been kind of relentlessly downwards. There has been 100 per cent or 200 per cent fluctuations in K-Country’s budget. That becomes difficult because one year they can staff to do certain projects and then the next year magically there’s no staff.”

“I think beyond asking people to take travel pledges and to get excited about experiencing things in their backyard, it’s really summoning this idea we have to support local and it’s never been more important to bring back our way of life, to bring back our communities and to support our friends and families in resumption to normal work activity.”

The audited financial statements for the Bow Valley Waste Management Commission showed a fiscally healthy organization.