National Aboriginal Day celebrated with dance and culture
National Aboriginal Day events drew over 200 people to Kin Park for a teepee village and more than 30 dancers in regalia. Saamis Aboriginal hosted the celebration despite eight toppled teepees from a severe thunderstorm, with volunteers restoring four. Dancers from Siksika Nation and Brocket shared dances and meanings throughout the afternoon.
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Kin Park
Anita Neefs
Saamis Aboriginal
Siksika
Brocket
Neefs
Charles Lefebvre
Chris Bull Bear
Siksika Nation
Demolition of Saskatoon Grain Elevator Ends Era
A crowd gathered at the Parrish and Heimbecker grain mill as crews detonated explosives to topple the 56 metre high elevator built in 1910. The structure, closed last year after operations moved, fell under a 200 metre exclusion zone with safety crews on standby. About a thousand viewers watched as blaster Tristan Rakowski described the process, likening the demolition to felling a tree.
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Saskatoon
Parrish and Heimbecker
Tristan Rakowski
Rakowski
Rakowski Cartage and Wrecking
Brandon Phillips
Mike Rotchell
St. Paul’s Hospital
Rotchell
Solar energy skims Medicine Hat solstice celebration
On the longest day, Medicine Hat officially opened a solar thermal plant the city built since 2008 led by Russ Smith. Mayor Ted Clugston praised the project as future energy, with tours, solar car races, and solar ovens during the solstice event. The facility began operating in 2014, with strut issues later fixed. tests show heat up to 650 degrees and potential to power over 200 homes. The city will release data in a year before deciding on year round operation.
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Gas City
Hatters
Ted Clugston
Russ Smith
Clugston
Medicine Hat
Wilbur McLean
Sunridge Observatory
McLean
Charles Lefebvre
Siobhan O'Connor
Manitoba moves to teach residential schools history in schools
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announces a four point plan to teach aboriginal history and culture in public schools, including a new education policy on First Nation Metis and Inuit history and treaties. The plan follows the Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings that residential schools were a cultural genocide. A separate Ontario survey reports teachers receive limited Aboriginal education training and many elementary schools offer none.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Greg Selinger
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
NDP
Selinger
Canada
B.C
Commission
People For Education
Ontario
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