Aboriginal Day festivities wrap up with feasting and music
VANCOUVER — National Aboriginal Day events wrapped up in Oppenheimer Park on June 21 amid feasting and song. Events over four days honoured First Nations, Métis, and Inuit traditions and included a daily sunrise ceremony, traditional storytelling, activities for children, a neighbourhood smudge, and a daily feast. CUPE BC alternate diversity vice president (Aboriginal) Debra […]
Canadian labour loses valued pioneer
Shirley Carr was world’s first woman elected head of a national labour organization Shirley Carr, a long-time activist and labour leader whose work has created a legacy of strength and pride in the Canadian labour movement, died on Thursday, June 24, at the age of 81, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. CUPE National president Paul Moist […]
