I was lucky to steal a few moments with Ana Laura Pachulo at her home this weekend to discuss the Latin American community in Edmonton. You can hear my column – and parts of my chat with her – this Wednesday at 4:40pm on CBC Radio Active. The column will be uploaded to SoundCloud shortlyContinue reading “Who We Are: YEG’s Latin American Community”
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Camsell Hospital: Summer Updates
I appreciate how much support and interest there has been in Edmonton and across the province around this research. In the wake of the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Executive Summary, I think many of us are looking in our own backyards for opportunities to bring reconciliation home. #MyReconciliationIncludes what Justice Murray SinclairContinue reading “Camsell Hospital: Summer Updates”
Who We Are: YEG’s German Community
This week on my CBC Radio Active column, I talk with Arnim Joop about the history of the German community in Edmonton – and what it’s like today. We had a great chat at the new Mill Woods Edmonton Public Library location, where there was a lineup out the door at opening time! Luckily weContinue reading “Who We Are: YEG’s German Community”
Who We Are: YEG’s Somali Community
This week I got to chat with Ahmed “Knowmadic” Ali, a poet and spoken word artist in Edmonton about the Somali community here in town. If you’d like to hear our conversation, check out CBC Radio Active at 4:40pm tomorrow (Wednesday) or the program’s SoundCloud channel! Here are a few neat links I came acrossContinue reading “Who We Are: YEG’s Somali Community”
Who We Are in YEG: LGBTQ Community Past and Present
Last week I got to sit down with Michael Phair to dig into the history of the LGBTQ community here in Edmonton. A couple of years back I got to hear him speak about this on an Edmonton Heritage Council YEG Curiousities Bus Tour and knew he had some of the hidden stories in town.Continue reading “Who We Are in YEG: LGBTQ Community Past and Present”
This Week’s CBC Column: YEG’s Muslim Community
This week my summer column returns to its normal time slot at 4:40pm on Wednesday. I will be speaking to the long Muslim history in Edmonton with help from social entrepreneur and heritage project leader, Omar Yaqub. If you can’t catch the column then, or you’d like to listen to past editions, please click hereContinue reading “This Week’s CBC Column: YEG’s Muslim Community”
Today’s CBC Column: Metis Community in Edmonton
I’ll be doing my CBC Radio Active column, Who We Are, at a special time today because of the holiday yesterday. Please tune in after the 3pm news to hear me try and untangle the complex history and present-day Metis community in Edmonton with the help of former Poet Laureate and metis writer, Anna MarieContinue reading “Today’s CBC Column: Metis Community in Edmonton”
Upcoming CBC Column: Edmonton’s Jewish Heritage and Community
Just got back from interviewing Paul Gifford, the archivist at the Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta (JAHSENA) for the first installment of my summer column. For the next 10 weeks I get to reprise my role as summer columnist for CBC Radio Active as I explore the diversity in ourContinue reading “Upcoming CBC Column: Edmonton’s Jewish Heritage and Community”
Opening Hearts and Starting Conversations
For the past six weeks, I’ve been working with other members of RISEdmonton (Reconciliation in Solidarity Edmonton) to make this heart garden happen. The group’s founder, Miranda Jimmy, was inspired to do this project by the one being installed during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s closing events in Ottawa, as well as ones that wereContinue reading “Opening Hearts and Starting Conversations”
Your help is needed!
A woman from Cambridge Bay, NU (Cathy Aitok) has contacted me through my Ghosts of Camsell site looking for help tracking down what happened to her grandfather. He was sent to the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital for prosthetics for his feet in May 1960: “He was sent out from Perry River/Island – Cambridge Bay area. My mom saidContinue reading “Your help is needed!”