Indigenous Alberta

Barrhead resident and daughter and granddaughter of residential school survivors Tiara Yiu disheartened that someone would remove the memorial she started

Lac La Biche Mission plans to display residential school history

Lightning strikes twice for singer-songwriter Jason Burnstick.

The federal government invested a historic $4.1 billion in the last budget towards nature recovery across Canada

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has described the potential name changes to cancel-culture.

Last week the remains of 215 First Nation children were found in a mass grave at a former residential school in Kamloops, BC.

More than 130 government-funded, church-run residential schools were established to sever children from their families, and assimilate and shame them for their culture, language and spirituality. 

More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend church-run residential schools across Canada between the 1870s and 1996, when the last school closed.

"We are grieving. We know there are questions out there, but right now we need to grieve, to be there for and with one another, to share our stories, our songs, our prayers, our tears, our support. We will get to those questions, but for now we mourn."

In April, the Sovereign Nations of Treaty Eight wrote a letter to Premier Jason Kenney calling for the draft to be significantly revised, which Laboucan signed, citing the “deeply offensive” and “glaring absence” of First Nations people from the writing process.