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National Indigenous News September 23 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_00: This is a look at your National Indigenous News.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Canadian government has offered Indigenous groups a collective 15% ownership stake in the Transmountain Pipeline, advancing a long-promised plan to give First Nations equity in the federally owned pipeline.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a letter to a First Nation along the pipeline's path seen by the Canadian press, a federal Department of Finance official said the equity investment would be equally distributed among participating groups through a low-cost government-provided loan.
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  SPEAKER_00: The letter said Ottawa will provide eligible groups with up to$100,000 for participation costs for expenses such as travel, office space, and equipment through March 2028, while separately covering independent advisors to assist with due diligence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Details of the offer will be shared during a series of in-person meetings in Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops, and Edmonton plans for late October, the letter added.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ottawa bought the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline, its expansion project, and related assets for$4.5 billion in 2018 after Kinder Morgan investors raised concerns that regulatory uncertainty made the investment too risky.
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  SPEAKER_00: It later committed to exploring indigenous economic participation in the expansion with the 129 indigenous communities potentially affected by the project.
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  SPEAKER_00: The expansion began operations in 2024 and increased the Transmountain system's capacity to about 890,000 barrels per day from roughly 300,000 barrels per day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until now, the government had not publicly specified the size of the ownership stake it was prepared to make available.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indigenous policing leaders are calling for changes to the way policing is delivered in indigenous communities, but say community members cannot be left out of deciding what change looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Indigenous Policing Summit, brought police leaders, Indigenous Policing and Justice Partners, government officials, and others together near Calgary on Monday and Tuesday to discuss how recommendations and lessons from the past can be turned into action.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Soutina Nation Police Services said police services need to listen to communities instead of assuming the same approach will work everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Soutina, there is cultural training for officers and a program that pairs new officers with elders who can help them understand the community, its language, and culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the issues brought forward at the summit was funding, which is another barrier Indigenous police services face when trying to provide essential services and programming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indigenous police services are not recognized as an essential service and rely on government grants and contributions, which limits their ability to provide the same programs and services as larger police agencies.
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  SPEAKER_00: With the two-day summit now wrapped up, Indigenous policing leaders say the challenge is now taking what was discussed in Calgary and putting it into practice in their own communities.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Fredericton, New Brunswick, the Under One Sky Friendship Center started as one modest building, but they have longed for something bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: That dream has come to life and a 21,000 square foot community longhouse that is set for its grand opening September 29th.
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  SPEAKER_00: The project proposal was approved in 2022, and the center said it is New Brunswick's first net zero carbon community building, called the Awakati Project, meaning a place to gather and be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: It primarily serves indigenous people who live off the reserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: It came with a price tag of$25.9 million and was supported financially by the federal government.
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  SPEAKER_00: Under One Sky had been operating out of three buildings in the city and started as a child care center, but the new center will incorporate several kinds of family programming.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an industrial-sized kitchen for catering and cooking classes, a workshop, education, and counseling spaces, and even a birthing center.
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  SPEAKER_00: The birthing center hosts a private room with a bathtub, bed, bathroom, and outdoor garden area that people giving birth can access as they wish.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hope is to include indigenous doulas and midwives as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cooking lessons by an indigenous chef are on the menu, and so are traditional hunting lessons for those wanting to learn to gather, process, and prepare their meals completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Families can take the animal hide from the kitchen down to the hall into the workshop where classes will be held to prepare it and craft it into something new.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a health center with two nurses and a nurse practitioner on staff, and they hope to sign on a doctor in the near future.
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  SPEAKER_00: An expanded education center is also part of the new build with a classroom for university students to be taught in partnership with UNB's School of Leadership Studies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The entire property is shaped into the form of a turtle shell, and the rooms are connected by a passageway likened to a flowing river.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Friendship Center is open to everyone and particularly targeted for Indigenous people and families.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a look at your National Indigenous News.