Nuu-chah-nulth basketball is back in full swing.
Young players have sights set on the 2025 Junior All Native Tournament (JANT), March 16 to 22, in Kelowna on Syilx Okanagan Territory, while adults are looking towards the All Native Basketball Tournament (ANBT), Feb. 8 to 15 in Prince Rupert, B.C.
Tofino is one of 65 communities from across British Columbia that will collectively receive about $56 million from the province’s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund (CEPF).
It was announced via a news release in mid-September that Tofino is specifically getting $150,000 in funding, which will be utilized towards a Mackenzie Creek restoration project.
Preventative work that will be done with the funding is aimed at helping First Nations and local governments during emergencies by minimizing the risk of disasters.
Tragedy rocked the small village of Nitinaht on Saturday, Sept. 28, with an incident that suddenly brought a heavy police presence to the Ditidaht First Nation community on southwest Vancouver Island.
The early morning incident left one young man dead, while another individual was arrested after multiple RCMP units descended on the village by Nitinaht Lake. On the following day police made a charge of first-degree murder against the individual, who is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 8.
Christie Residential School warrior Rose Tom says she felt like a queen on Sept. 30, Canada’s fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Tom journeyed on a boat from the rocky shores of Meares Island and the site of Kakawis/ old Christie Indian Residential School (IRS) with a pod of fellow warriors, some paddling a dugout canoe and others on support boats, to Tofino’s First Street Dock.
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Attending residential school caused children to emotionally shut down inside, part of a survival tactic that resulted in years of silence about their experience at the assimilationist institutions.
The people of Huu-ay-aht invited the community of Bamfield to join them on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Sept. 30, where they were treated to a catered lunch at the House of Huu-ay-aht.
But first, Chief Councillor John Jack invited the crowd out to watch children lower the flags outside the Huu-ay-aht Government Office in honour of residential schools survivors, and to remember those that didn’t make it home.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is being celebrated across Canada today, recognized with a civic holiday and walks in communities coast to coast.
The police have arrested a man after discovering a suspicious death in Nitinaht early Saturday morning.
In a statement from the Lake Cowichan RCMP, officers from the detachment were called to a home in the Ditidaht First Nation village just before 7 a.m. on Sept. 28.
“Upon arrival, police located an adult man who was deceased,” said Corp. Madonna Saunderson in a press release from the detachment.
The RCMP have the situation under control in Nitinaht, and will be in the small community for the next few days, according to the Ditidaht First Nation in an update regarding a tragedy that unfolded early this morning.
Residents of the village were advised to stay in their homes this morning and away from a field in the community by Nitinaht Lake, as police attended to an incident that began in the early hours of Sept. 28.
Nitinaht residents are being asked to stay indoors, as police deal with a situation in the Ditidaht First Nation village on southwest Vancouver Island.
This morning a message was released by Chief Councillor Judi Thomas, telling Ditidaht members that RCMP had informed her of a “tragic situation that occurred in our community early this morning.”