Nuu-chah-nulth community wellness workers will have additional tools and supports to bring back to their people thanks to training they’ve completed through the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s Teechuktl (Mental Health) Program.
Over the past few months, 22 Nuu-chah-nulth human services workers from all three Nuu-chah-nulth regions have been taking training at Ocean Resort in Oyster Bay.
A graduation dinner was held at the Port Alberni Friendship Center on March 26 to celebrate the successes of 10 young adults who completed the Aboriginal Youth Employment & Training Program.
Funded by the British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres and the Urban Partnership program, the AYET program was delivered through the Port Alberni Friendship Center over the course of three months.
A Tla-o-qui-aht man has completed a trail building program delivered by Parks Canada.
The skills Cory Charlie acquired during the three weeks of training will be used to build boardwalks and staircases on important and delicate pathways through the giant cedars on Meares Island.
According to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, the trail building workshop is offered every year in partnership with First Nations.
This year there were seven local First Nations involved, with 20 taking part in the course which started Feb. 23 and ran until March 12.
Leanne John, 15, was taking part in a school field trip in the rugged and remote Bedwell Valley when she went missing March 3 during a hike up the mountain. The Maaqtusiis school student spent a night alone on the frozen mountainside. This is her story.
A group of about 20 school kids from Ahousaht went to Clayoquot Wilderness Resort in Bedwell Sound. It is the off-season for the resort and the school was using the base camp for their field trip.
Supporters gathered on the steps of the Vancouver Law Courts today as five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations headed back to court in their long-standing Aboriginal commercial fishing rights battle with the federal government.
The latest twist in the years-old legal saga is known as a “justification trial”. Canada must prove that past and ongoing DFO infringements of Nuu-chah-nulth Aboriginal rights can be justified by federal legislation or Canada’s responsibility to “balance societal interests”.
Update March 9: 3:25. Please note, this is ancedotal from sources in the communities. We have not confirmed this reports with DFO:
Herring update:
We received an email from Joshua Charleson mid-afternoon. He said his dad has been listening to the seiner guys talk all day and they are talking about the Gulf guys taking their gear off because there is no hope of getting quota there. Just not enough fish. The next hope is the Central Coast, they are saying.
The Barkley test set today, one seiner reported, was that it was worse than yesterday.
Hepatitis A immunizations will be offered to employees of the Nanaimo Superstore located at 6435 Metral Drive, and to eligible members of the public who consumed raw produce or unwrapped food that was not further cooked and was purchased from that store on specific dates in the past two weeks.
This follows confirmation that a cashier has tested positive for hepatitis A.
The Nuu-chah-nulth woman reported missing from Vancouver’s Down Town East Side has been found safe and is waiting in a safe home for her family members to pick her up.
The Coquitlam RCMP confirmed in a press release issued the morning of Mar. 6 that 39 year-old Angelina Louie has been located safe and sound.
Louie, a resident of Coquitlam was reported missing Mar. 3 and was last seen Feb. 27 in downtown Vancouver.
An elated Sue Johnson was on her way to Vancouver to pick up her daughter. She confirmed that Louie had been found on the afternoon Mar. 5.
The high school student lost overnight in the mountains in sub-zero temperatures has been found.
Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie reports that 14-year-old Leanne John was found about 12:30 p.m. up the mountain from the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort.
“She was cold and tired but otherwise healthy and safe,” he said.
John was taking part in a school field trip March 3 at a resort in Bedwell Sound when she became separated from her class during a hike.
Updated at 1:49 p.m.
The high school student lost overnight in the mountains in sub-zero temperatures has been found.
Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie reports that 14-year-old Leanne John was found about 12:30 p.m. up the mountain from the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort.
“She was cold and tired but otherwise healthy and safe,” he said.
John was taking part in a school field trip March 3 at a resort in Bedwell Sound when she became separated from her class during a hike.