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The CBYF initiative is excited to launch the new Youth Resource Guide! The guide is a comprehensive outline of resources available to...

It's that time of year again! Smile Cookie week is coming up soon from Sept 13-19. From September 13 - 19, Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners...

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Coalition There has been plenty of talk about ‘building...

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country....

Alma Scott was taken to the Fort Alexander, Manitoba, Indian residential school when she was just five years old. “We got taken away by a...

Imagine speaking a completely different language than your parents. How would you tell them when you were hungry? If you were hurting?...

A recent ‘letter to the editor’ in this publication highlighted the depth of ignorance some local citizens continue to have about...

How many of you grew up hearing that First Nations people don’t pay taxes? Or that people on reserves get everything handed to them? Guy...

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous People’s Coalition A heart attack that occurs when the left...

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous People’s Coalition Of all the myths surrounding First Nations...

Selçuk Koran has only worked in Portage la Prairie since mid-July, but he noticed two things even before that: how small it is compared...

Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator Portage Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Coalition Cornell Pashe Indigenous Community Coordinator...

Eve O’Leary may be Portage la Prairie’s biggest booster, and she has only lived here for a few short months. The recently hired Executive...

The Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) program is excited to announce our first ever round of “Small Grants for Youth”! These...