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The power of the Indigenous vote in U.S. elections | CBC Radio

On Nov. 5, 2024, America elected the forty-seventh President of the United States of America. In the months leading up to the U.S. election, there was a lot of analysis about the Black vote, the Latino vote and a variety of other swing voter groups. Meanwhile, mainstream media coverage on the Native American vote was limited. A few days after the election, CBC's Unreserved gathered a panel of voting rights activists to hear their message to voters.

This veteran decolonized Remembrance Day events to honour Indigenous military service | CBC Radio

[I produced this segment] If you attend a Remembrance Day service at the Beausoleil First Nation, expect a decolonized ceremony. Instead of O Canada to start things off, an honour drum song will be offered. Jeff Monague was the driving force behind this and other ceremonial changes, because "history has basically erased us as veterans," he told Unreserved's Rosanna Deerchild.

Now is not the time to balance the budget, says finance minister, as B.C. posts $5B deficit | CBC News

British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget.

Katrine Conroy released the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending March 31, which peg the province's deficit at $5.035 billion.

That's lower than the most recent $5.9 billion forecast last quarter, but higher than the $4.2 billion originally predicted when the 2023 budget was tabled last year.

B.C. First Nations life expectancy plunges by 6 years, says report | CBC News

Average life expectancy among First Nations people in British Columbia has dropped by more than six years between 2017 and 2021, according to a report released Wednesday by the First Nations Health Authority and the office of the provincial health officer.

The report says Indigenous life expectancy in B.C. fell from 73.3 years in 2017 to 67.2 years in 2021. Life expectancy for First Nations males declined by 6.8 years, and 5.2 years for females, for an overall decline of 6.1 years, the report said.

New UBC student housing project to add over 1,500 beds to Vancouver campus | CBC News

B.C. Premier David Eby announced Tuesday that the province and the University of British Columbia will partner to create housing for more than 1,500 students at UBC's Vancouver campus.

The estimated $560-million project will be funded with $300 million from the province and $260 million from UBC, Eby said at a news conference.

In a press release, the university called the funding "the most significant provincial contribution to a single building project in UBC's history.

4 arrested and released in shooting at Prince George house | CBC News

Four suspects in a shooting in Prince George, B.C., have been arrested, RCMP said Tuesday.

Just before 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, police say officers responded to multiple reports of shots being fired in front of a residence in the 700 block of Ahbau Street.

Police discovered that one man had been driven away from the scene with possible gunshot wounds, but later located the single victim at the hospital and said that his injuries were non-life-threatening.

Unexpected shark species are moving into the Salish Sea. Researchers are trying to work out why | CBC News

A team of researchers in Washington state were surprised after they recently caught a young broadnose sevengill shark in Puget Sound — a species that normally gives birth further south.

According to B.C. shark expert Meaghen McCord, a live juvenile has never been captured and recorded in that area before. It comes after the first scientific recording of the species in South Puget Sound, a series of narrow inlets in the Salish Sea off Olympia, Wash., about two years ago.

B.C.'s hammer throw program is flying high after 2 Olympic gold medals, coaches say | CBC News

While running events like the 100 metres often garner much of the track-and-field attention at the Olympic Games, two B.C. athletes have shone a spotlight on the hammer throw with gold-medal-winning performances in Paris.

On Sunday, 22-year-old Ethan Katzberg from Nanaimo, B.C., became the first ever Canadian to win the gold medal in hammer throw, and became the event's youngest Olympic gold medallist in the process.

Two days later, his gold was matched by 25-year-old Camryn Rogers from Richmond, B.C.

More than $10K offered in FortisBC rebate for those installing dual fuel heating systems | CBC News

FortisBC announced a new rebate on Tuesday for homeowners who replace older gas heating systems with energy-efficient electric heat pumps and high-efficiency gas furnaces.

"The new rebate helps make this system more affordable for customers and combines the strengths of both energy systems to meet their heating and cooling needs," Joe Mazza, vice president of energy supply and resource development at FortisBC, said in a statement.

First Nations in B.C. take federal government, companies to court over fish-farm extension | CBC News

Two First Nations in British Columbia are taking the federal government and fish farm companies to court in an attempt to overturn a decision that allows the farms to continue to operate off B.C.'s coast for another five years.

The 'Namgis and the Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nations say in separate Federal Court applications the decision infringes on their Aboriginal rights.

The 'rhino men' who risk their lives to save the last rhinos | CBC News

Orlat Ndlovu started working at a gold mine straight out of school, but wasn't happy there. He loved nature.

When head ranger Anton Mzimba, who later became a colleague and close friend, offered him a maintenance position at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve in South Africa, he jumped at the chance.

Ndlovu began fixing roads and fences, and dealing with erosion control around the reserve, which borders Kruger National Park, one of the largest game reserves in Africa.

He finally felt at home — surrounded by nature and people who would go to great lengths to protect it.
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