August 2016


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'Stepping up' with buddies


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Race relations at the crossroads


A critical look back at indigenous-non-indigenous dealings a year after the TRC gave us its final report


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he fundamental misunderstanding of [Europe’s] colonizers was that they felt they were filling a gap and raising Indigenous people from ‘savagery’. They saw an undeveloped culture, language and society in the North and they paid no attention to it. To their Eurocentric eyes, there was no society or culture worth preserving. They needed a clean slate; they needed to kill the Indian in the child.” So Alberta lawyer Steven Cooper tells us, in a quick but forceful description of the situation that confronted Canada’s indigenous population starting in the still-early days of settlement here. Cooper’s narrative appears in a new book, In This Together, which contains 15 essays by Cana- dian writers dealing with relations between our indigenous and non-indigenous races. That book is focussed on carrying forward the conversation launched with the publication a year ago of the final, probing report (after six years of hearings


and study) by Canada’s Truth and Reconcilia- tion Commission.


As Canadians are only starting to realize in the wake of that commission report, we as a people are being invited to accept a more sobering view of our history than any we might have dreamed of encountering. It’s a layered story of an un- conscionable mission that through much of our history drove the actions of our governments in dealing with the indigenous people in Canada. In pursuing that mission our governments, as colonizers, systematically betrayed, segregated and culturally degraded and dismissed the native peoples who had in earlier times welcomed them here; and in pursuit of its unfortunate goals, our national government had joined forces with church-activated residential schools in cutting off some 50,000, mainly First Nations, children committed to the schools from their traditional u 4 'No idea'


Skin cancer risk can shoot


up in your 50s Older folks’ skin has less fat and lower water content, and the sun’s rays penetrate it more deeply – making us vulnerable as we age.


Krystal Simpson


ing on that golf handicap, spending time at the lake or hiking a new trail. But does the list in- clude lathering your skin in sunscreen and put- ting on a hat? Just because you’ve already cel- ebrated your 55th birthday, doesn’t mean you don’t need to protect yourself from the sun. In fact, it may be important now more than ever.


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ooped up for six months of the year, no one does summer like we do. Your summer to-do list might include work-


Former Manitoba Premier John Bracken. J


ohn Bracken Highway will be the official name of a 195-kilometre section of PTH 10 from the Inter- national Peace Garden north to Riding Mountain National Park to honour the longest-serving premier in Manitoba history, Premier Brian Pallister has an- nounced. “We are pleased to establish the John Bracken High- way through the fertile southwest agricultural land of Manitoba north to the rolling hills near Riding Moun- tain,” said Pallister. “We congratulate his family and join with them in celebrating the memory of a man dedicated to family and to the people he served.” The official John Bracken Highway signs will be post- ed along PTH 10. The sign was unveiled at a ceremony in Brandon, about halfway between the north and south end points on the designated section of highway. Mem- bers of the Bracken family travelled to Brandon for the unveiling from across Canada and the United States.


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It's time for apple pie


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This bee's a loner


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John Bracken Highway honours former Manitoba premier


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