Maskwacis

We begin with Monday's referendum in Alberta, where voters from across Treaties 6, 7 and 8 cast their votes on 10 questions.

Reporting from one polling station in Muscogee, Charlotte Moore Jacobs.

Members of the Samson Cree Nation in Muscogee are casting their vote right up until the doors are locked.

Louis Bull, who ran out of that ballots, had to send their people here.

We have had to send ask for additional ballots.

And, uh, you know, obviously she's mentored other lawyers to take her place, but I am really struggling, really struggling with the lack of [sighs] accountability from the Catholic Church.

You know, her and a, and a committee, a team, had the Pope come to Maskwacis, and I'm, I'm really proud of her for it.

But, um, we have seen no real shift with the Christian churches on the calls to action with reconciliation.

And, you know, the way they've engaged with me, it is really clear they will never care, give a fuck, or, or do any real meaningful reconciliation here in Calgary.

Congratulations go out to Ecole Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School for being named one of three finalists from the Americas region for their BeWise B-Cube system, which is designed to save bee colonies.

The award is worth $150,000, and this is especially noteworthy because just this past January, a school from around here, the Mamawi Atosketen Native School in Pinoka near Maskwacis, won the Zayed Sustainability Award for its hydroponic garden, and coincidentally, there is an update on that story on our website this week as well.

In case you missed it, RCMP officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in relation to a July 2024 incident in Sylvan Lake.

A final report was issued Wednesday by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, or ACERT, and the Police Review Commission.

Mounties say he could be heading towards Slave Lake or Red Deer, and he's apparently driving a gray Chevy Venture van with plate number CWY thirty-four fifty-nine.

RCMP have charged two residents of Maskwacis with second-degree murder following the death of a ninety-two-year-old man in Ponoka County.

Mounties say the body of Lowell Fenske was found outside his home in February of this year, with an autopsy later confirming he had been the victim of a homicide.

RCMP say an extensive investigation has led to the arrest of two suspects, forty-eight-year-old Timothy Bull and nineteen-year-old Siryn Bull.

With equity, with equity, integrity, and that goes for my Indigenous people.

friends in Hobima, all my friends in Alberta.

We just want to be treated fair with equity.

We pay all the bills in Canada.

They're not having a poll in their community, and then there are some that are.

So I was out in Maskwacis, you'll remember the site of the 2022 Pope visit, uh, specifically Ermeskin First Nation, and while I was, uh, speaking with Catherine Swanby, who was there organizing Indigenous Rock the Vote, and she was looking to, um, get people registered, signed up, make sure they have the right ID, so they're doing a separate voter, um, ID registration as well as a, uh, just registering to vote online, um, or for mail-in ballots.

And at that event, there was about 300 people signed up.

She said she'd signed up about 400 overall.

Um, she was lucky enough to see that apology from the Pope.

And, uh, my auntie, who also passed away about this time last year, she was instrumental in getting the Pope to Maskwacis.

So these are things I'm thinking about today, and thinking about where have we really gotten in 11 years, but look how far we've gotten as well in 11 years.

So I, I think about when I was younger, and I was too embarrassed to even say I was...