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National Indigenous News March 24 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_02: This is a look at your national indigenous news.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_02: The federal government has invested just over$4.7 million over five years to the Women of Inner Strength Project in Ontario, which is led by the Thunder Women Healing Lodge Society through the Aboriginal Community Safety Development Contribution Program.
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  SPEAKER_02: The funding will help the Healing Lodge provide comprehensive supports for Indigenous women reintegrating into communities from federal and provincial corrections.
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  SPEAKER_02: Its goal is to offer safe, supervised accommodation, culturally appropriate counseling, and workshops to heal from trauma, foster belonging, and build skills for successful reintegration back into the community.
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  SPEAKER_02: By adapting priority areas that support reintegration to indigenous ways of knowledge and culture, participants will learn to develop independent living skills and build their community relationships in a supported environment.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Thunder Women Healing Lodge Society supports First Nations, both status and non-status, Inuit and Metis women and their families on their journey toward wholeness by providing culturally appropriate, bi-indigenous for indigenous community-based supports, traditional knowledge, and resources.
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  SPEAKER_02: Edmonton Indigenous Fashion Week is this week at the Blatchford Field Hangar in the capital city.
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  SPEAKER_02: There will be many Indigenous designers showcasing their designs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Joanna Luna has more on this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the second annual Indigenous Fashion Week here in Edmonton.
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  SPEAKER_00: The event kicks off March 25th to the 28th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And creative director Heather Bocher dropped by the studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last year we had a two-day event and it was hosted at the Pendennis Building.
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  SPEAKER_01: This year we actually doubled in size and we have two extra days.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's actually a four-day event.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our first day is a pre-kind of networking event, and then this uh last three days are fashion shows and performances.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a great lineup of performers and designers and hosts.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be really cool.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we originally formed in 2019, and there was a whole bunch of local designers that were part of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the reasons why we wanted to do that was because we were actually planning, was when we first started, we partnered with Western Canada Fashion Week.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I was actually brought on by Rhonda Johnson, who's Atchicus Designs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and she recommended me to be to join this group as we've been friends for a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I really hit it off with the group, and then we kind of started, we started, we planned the show for we had a full day event of just indigenous designers, including myself and all of the designers who are part of the collective.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: So there's like mobilize, there was, I think there's Brandy Morin, um Atchikus Designs, Jamie Medicine Crane.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: There's quite a few.
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  SPEAKER_01: We wanted more representation in Edmonton.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're like we were very fortunate to be part of different shows, like there's IFA Toronto, there's Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Santa Swaya, Santa Fe.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just Edmonton needed that.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Edmonton needs that.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Edmonton, I've Joataluna.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: The city of Yellowknife could make changes to its community plan in light of promised new investments in northern defense and infrastructure projects.
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  SPEAKER_02: Work to update the city's official community plan, which acts as a roadmap for development priorities, has been underway since last spring.
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  SPEAKER_02: As part of that work, residents were asked to envision what they want Yellowknife to look like in 2050.
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  SPEAKER_02: City officials said the plan will reflect the new realities of promised defense investments, though not everybody is confident it will capture the full picture accurately.
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  SPEAKER_02: Prime Minister Mark Kearney announced a$35 billion investment plan for the North during a visit to Yellowknife earlier this month, including substantial North American Aerospace Defense Command Program funding for Yellowknife.
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  SPEAKER_02: An influx of workers is expected in the city to build everything that will come from defense investments.
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  SPEAKER_02: However, the city's ongoing housing shortage means it's not clear where those workers would live.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yellowknife also does not have hundreds of workers ready to take on major water and sewer infrastructure construction projects, so that will likely mean bringing some workers in from elsewhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: There may be some discussion about work camps in the community plan, but some are saying the city also needs to look beyond temporary housing for visiting workers, as some of them may want to decide to settle in Yellowknife.
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  SPEAKER_02: That means opening more land in the city for housing development.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_02: The first draft of the new community plan is expected to be presented to city council next month, and there will be more opportunities for the public to provide input before the new plan gets to the approval stage.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a look at your national Indigenous news.