Why I’ll forever remember Truth & Reconciliation Day 2021
By Abby Francis, Local Journalism Initiative reporter I attended the Truth and Reconciliation Day march on September 30. I was photographing it for qathet Living, so a lot of my attention was focused on taking pictures, however, there were multiple moments where I...
Treat Truth and Reconciliation Day like Remembrance Day
By Abby Francis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Truth and Reconciliation Day should be like Remembrance Day. A day to honour and remember the children who did not make it home from out of Canada’s Residential Schools, and a day to honour and respect those...Under Tla’amin leadership Lund is booming, but so is the employment crisis
By Abby Francis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter In 2000, Tla’amin Nation and City of Powell River mayor Dave Formosa entered into a partnership to purchase about 4.1 acres of land in Lund. The area includes three harbours, two parking lots, a hotel and...
Dolphins Rescued off Tla’amin Lands
An amazing effort by the Tla’amin First Nations an other onlookers to help out 16 Pacific White-sided Dolphins trapped, and then stranded, in a centuries-old rock fish trap built to trap herring and other fish.
We’re in this together.
If we learn anything from the COVID-19 crisis it will be that humanity is only as strong as our weakest link.