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News Items tag as: First Nations

  • Busy Kamloops moms walk for a month to raise awareness of the effects of residential schools

    September 29, 2021 - 6:30 AM

    Two Indigenous women are taking action to raise awareness of the trauma imparted on First Nation peoples in residential schools, in a lead up Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

  • City of Kelowna needs to do more to reconcile with First Nations: city manager

    June 17, 2021 - 7:00 PM

    The tragic discovery of the remains of 215 children near the Kamloops Indian Residential School last month has triggered a call from Kelowna's city manager to do more to educate staff.

  • Annual Spirit of Syilx Unity Run run honours residential school survivors

    June 04, 2021 - 11:22 AM

    An annual event held by the Okanagan Nation Alliance has even more weight this year, as Indigenous communities across Canada grieve for the 215 children in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School.

  • Kamloops man uses TikTok to share Indigenous culture and amasses 4M views

    March 19, 2021 - 7:30 AM

    A Kamloops man who started a TikTok account to share his Indigenous culture has captured a global audience.

  • Kamloops Indigenous birth worker advocates for more access to traditional birth support

    November 16, 2020 - 9:00 PM

    Sage Thomas recalls the first birth she witnessed as a doula in training, using the traditional ways of her people. 

  • Burning of Wet’suwet’en cabin near site of pipeline protest called a 'hate crime'

    August 18, 2020 - 8:30 PM

    Months after the Wet’suwet’en ended their blockade of a forest service road near Houston, B.C. the burning down of a chief’s cabin is being called racist and linked to a long history of Canadians burning homes of first nations people in the area.

  • All illegal pot stores have been shut down in the Southern Interior, investigator says

    January 15, 2020 - 6:30 PM

    A special investigation unit based in Kelowna has managed to shut down most of the illegal pot shops in its Southern Interior territory.

  • Westbank First Nation's 29th annual síya? celebration

    June 06, 2019 - 2:01 PM

    WESTBANK FIRST NATION - The sncewips Heritage Museum and Westbank First Nation invite the public to attend the 29th annual síya? celebration June 7 at the Elders Hall & Ball Field in West Kelowna.

  • UBCO program for aboriginal students means no one is turned away

    May 22, 2019 - 4:04 PM

    KELOWNA - While aboriginal students may struggle to get their high school diplomas, failing to graduate won’t prevent them from getting a university education at UBC Okanagan.
    • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
      Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
    • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
      A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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