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Budget cuts affect residential school survivors
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-Jane Kirby of CKDU’s Operation Wakeup interviews Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, a member of Missing Justice Montreal, and Tarry Hewitt, of Aboriginal Survivors for Healing on Prince Edward Island, about the cutting of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the recent Federal budget. The cuts, which took effect March 31, will impact 134 programs for [...]
Leonard Peltier denied parole after 32 years in prison
Last month, U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole. Peltier has been imprisoned for 32 years, and is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a 1975 standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in 1977.
Amnesty International has called for the [...]
VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast
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VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.
The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.
Tune-in [...]
