School Lunch Association charity serves up cod — and education — to students in Musgravetown Since Anthony Paddon Elementary in Musgravetown, N.L., sits mere metres from the Atlantic Ocean in a province that, over much of its 500-plus years of colonized life, has had an economy largely tied to the sea, you’d think fish would be an easy lunch menu option. However, that’s not the case, as a provincial charity found when it organized a special cod lunch for the school’s students. “Fish is not on the menu in any of theRead more

‘It’s time that governments woke up and smell the coffee and begin to seriously engage Indigenous people’ A grand chief in B.C. is backing one member of Parliament’s push for the Liberals to amend tabled legislation so a proposed new federal law enforcement watchdog would, if established, employ Indigenous people as both decision-makers and complaints investigators. “All legislation must engage Indigenous input not after the fact but during the drafting of the legislation itself, and it’s absolutely essential that any oversight bodies of policing agencies include an Indigenous presence,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president ofRead more

Jody Short is living at the Miller Centre until he can raise enough funds to build a ramp Jody Short was ankle-deep in snow in February, a shovel in his hands, when searing pain shot up his left leg. “I was almost passing out with pain,” recalled Short recently, speaking quietly from the recreation room of the Miller Centre in St. John’s, where he’s been stranded for three months. Short ended up hospitalized, rushed to an operating room to fix an aortic dissection — a tear in his main artery, and theRead more

Defence closes case after final witnesses testify at Doug McCallum’s public mischief trial The shock of an unexpected attack may have confused Doug McCallum about some of the details, but a lawyer for the former Surrey mayor says the 78-year-old was correct in the essence of his accusations against the political opponent he accused of running over his foot. Wrapping the case in defence of his client Tuesday, Richard Peck told the judge overseeing McCallum’s public mischief trial the situation has to be viewed in the context of the politics that preceded it — and the “toxic fanaticism” his detractorsRead more

Event is about honoring Indigenous veterans who stood up for the right to be free, says MN-S president Members from Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and First Nations in the province convened Tuesday morning in Batoche, some 89 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, to honour Indigenous veterans. Wreaths woven with poppies were laid at the Batoche National Métis Veterans Memorial Monument in honour of all Métis veterans. Métis Nation-Saskatchewan president Glen McCallum’s uncle’s name is one of more than 5,000 engraved on the monument. “It gives me great pleasure to see the interest we still have inRead more