Friday, July 29th, 2022
Summer program teaches Sudbury, Ont., high schoolers Indigenous practices
Great Lakes Cultural Camps organization offers the program For high school students like Julia Parenteau, learning during a global pandemic was a challenge. “I am so used to learning, being in a classroom, but as a high school student, I find it very stressful. It’s not that fun. I wake up in the morning and I don’t want to go to school,” said Parenteau, who will start Grade 10 in the fall at Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School in Sudbury, Ont. But this month, Parenteau has participated in an IndigenousRead more
In wake of report, Canada Soccer committed to strengthening safe-sport culture, new secretary general says
‘We are going to be leaders in this safe sport,’ says Earl Cochrane Canada Soccer’s secretary general Earl Cochrane didn’t mince his words while reacting to a 125-page report completed by McLaren Global Sport Solutions, highlighting systemic issues relating to the culture and governance within the national sport organization 14 years ago. The report was commissioned by Canada Soccer. Cochrane says he understands fully what’s at stake moving forward when there are gaps in the organization’s framework. “Everything we’re talking about involves real people and real lives. All of the decisions and mistakesRead more
Canada’s economy was flat in May, a sign a slowdown is already underway
Despite flat growth, central bank expected to keep raising rates to get inflation under control Canada’s economy didn’t expand at all in May, the second month of the year that its failed to eke out any gains, Statistics Canada said Friday. The data agency said that a slight uptick in the service sector wasn’t enough to offset a decline in goods-producing industries, so the total value of all economic output during the month was essentially unchanged from what it was a month earlier. The flat showing was actually better thanRead more
Intergenerational residential school survivors in Saskatchewan want more after papal apology
Pope’s statement were ‘just words,’ meant ‘absolutely nothing’ to some While survivors are at the forefront of the papal visit to Canada, intergenerational survivors and Indigenous youth have their thoughts on the apology he offered earlier this week, too. Many survivors spoke about the intergenerational impact of residential schools during the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit earlier this year. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings also showed the schools left effects even among those who never crossed their thresholds. Destiny Thomas, 29, from Pelican Lake First Nation in north-central Saskatchewan, saysRead more
P.E.I. city desperate to house locum amid doctor shortage, housing crisis
‘I guess if it really came to it, I’d likely rent out my house,’ says city’s acting CAO A widespread doctor shortage on P.E.I. coupled with the Island’s housing crisis left one city appealing on social media for the public’s help to find accommodations for a locum doctor. “It seems as though we’re more reliant on locums now than we’ve ever been,” said Dr. Tyler McDonell, medical director at the Prince County Hospital in Summerside, the province’s second largest city. “But I don’t think that’s unique to PCH. I thinkRead more
Summer program teaches Sudbury, Ont., high schoolers Indigenous practices
Great Lakes Cultural Camps organization offers the program For high school students like Julia Parenteau, learning during a global pandemic was a challenge. “I am so used to learning, being in a classroom, but as a high school student, I find it very stressful. It’s not that fun. I wake up in the morning and I don’t want to go to school,” said Parenteau, who will start Grade 10 in the fall at Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School in Sudbury, Ont. But this month, Parenteau has participated in an IndigenousRead more
In wake of report, Canada Soccer committed to strengthening safe-sport culture, new secretary general says
‘We are going to be leaders in this safe sport,’ says Earl Cochrane Warning: This story contains graphic details that may be disturbing to some readers Canada Soccer’s secretary general Earl Cochrane didn’t mince his words while reacting to a 125-page report completed by McLaren Global Sport Solutions, highlighting systemic issues relating to the culture and governance within the national sport organization 14 years ago. The report was commissioned by Canada Soccer. Cochrane says he understands fully what’s at stake moving forward when there are gaps in the organization’s framework. “Everything we’re talkingRead more