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ICYMI: Oct. 14-19

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Oct 20, 2025
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Samuel Bird's remains located outside Edmonton; man charged with murder of Indigenous teen

Samuel Bird's remains located outside Edmonton; man charged with murder of Indigenous teen

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Edmonton's 2025 Mayoral Election: A Guide for the Perplexed

Edmonton's 2025 Mayoral Election: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Elsewhere

  • At Alberta Native News, I covered four Treaty 8 First Nations’ joint effort to prevent the sale of Crown land to Mackenzie County for agricultural production.

  • Also for Native News, I wrote about how the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations and Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, as well as several individual First Nations, were accepted as intervenors in a court case challenging a proposed referendum on Alberta independence.

  • I reported on the National Coalition of Chiefs, a First Nations organization established explicitly to advocate for fossil fuel projects. Their president Dale Swampy, who is not a chief, was the only representative of an Indigenous organization who spoke at this year’s Carbon Capture Canada conference in Edmonton.


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