First Nations in Manitoba

Six Nations future on terrestrial TV uncertain – what are the implications for rugby and its fans?

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

But the high-octane drama risks being overshadowed by off-field events that could also threaten the principles of public service broadcasting.

Key Points: 
  • But the high-octane drama risks being overshadowed by off-field events that could also threaten the principles of public service broadcasting.
  • Viewing figures for the Rugby World Cup in 2023 were 19% higher than the 2019 tournament, and 30% higher than in 2015.
  • Free-to-air Six Nations games regularly draw between 3 and 4.5 million viewers in the UK.
  • So, when the current broadcasting deal ends in 2025, the Six Nations could very well end up behind a paywall.

Financial woes

  • It faces a stark future both on and off the field, with players leaving Wales for more money and salary caps being introduced for those who stay.
  • The SNP’s Gavin Newlands recently reiterated calls for broadcasting to be devolved so that the Six Nations remains free-to-air.
  • The Irish Rugby Union has also previously warned about the “substantial financial damage” to rugby if the Six Nations was classified as free-to-air.

Lessons from cricket

  • Free market proponents point, for example, to how Sky’s long-lasting commitment to cricket has led to innovation and technical advances such as multiple cameras and data-rich, TV-friendly statistical analysis.
  • It results in a quality of coverage that the BBC or ITV might struggle to match with more meagre budgets.
  • But test cricket offers a cautionary tale.
  • Having hauled in millions of new enthusiasts, cricket failed to keep them watching.


The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Vintage Investment Partners Announces Two New Members of Its Strategic Advisory Board

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Dr. Haj-Yehia served between 2019-2023 as Executive Group Chairman of Bank Leumi, the largest and oldest bank in Israel.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Haj-Yehia served between 2019-2023 as Executive Group Chairman of Bank Leumi, the largest and oldest bank in Israel.
  • "I am thrilled to have Samer and Andy join our Strategic Advisory Board.
  • More importantly, both bring unique experience and perspectives to Vintage that we are thrilled to tap", said Alan Feld, Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Vintage.
  • The other members of the Vintage SAB include: Bradley Bloom, Former Chairman and Co-Founder of Berkshire Partners, Mark Dubowitz, CEO, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Ambassador S. Fitzgerald Haney, Former U.S.

Apple scores record 13 Academy Award nominations, as culture-moving feature “Killers of the Flower Moon” lands 10 historic nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress for Lily Gladstone and Best Director for Martin Scorsese

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Today, Apple was recognized with a record 13 Academy Award nominations, including 10 nominations for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director Martin Scorsese, Best Actress Lily Gladstone, Best Supporting Actor Robert De Niro, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Apple was recognized with a record 13 Academy Award nominations, including 10 nominations for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director Martin Scorsese, Best Actress Lily Gladstone, Best Supporting Actor Robert De Niro, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography.
  • Martin Scorsese also makes history as he becomes the most-nominated living director, bringing his total to 10 total lifetime Academy Award nominations for Best Director.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240123857536/en/
    Apple Original Films' "Killers of the Flower Moon" was recognized with 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Lily Gladstone).
  • (Photo: Business Wire)
    Apple Original Films’ epic feature “Napoleon,” from Ridley Scott, earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects.

National Run For Office Day Recruits Gen Z, Other Underrepresented Groups to Run For Office Ahead of 2024 Election

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today is National Run For Office Day, an effort led by Civic Nation and Run for Something Civics to increase representation at every level of government. The nonpartisan campaign encourages people who are underrepresented in elected office, including young people, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+ and people with disabilities to run for elected office – especially local offices.

Key Points: 
  • Local elected officials in New York will join a celebration at Argent today to encourage more people to run for office.
  • The event will include giveaways from Glossier, interactive photo opportunities and critical conversations about running for office.
  • That's why Civic Nation is proud to work with Run For Something Civics to lead National Run For Office Day.
  • "National Run For Office Day is more important than ever to ensure government works for everyone, not just those with power and influence."

Lafarge’s Impact on nidus3D’s Endeavor: Canada’s Largest 3D-Printed Housing Project

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Lafarge Canada today announced its combined effort with nidus3D in supplying its OneCem low-carbon cement in Canada’s largest 3D-printed housing project, aimed at addressing the acute housing challenges faced by the SikSika Nation.

Key Points: 
  • Lafarge Canada today announced its combined effort with nidus3D in supplying its OneCem low-carbon cement in Canada’s largest 3D-printed housing project, aimed at addressing the acute housing challenges faced by the SikSika Nation.
  • While nidus3D has successfully completed 3D-printed housing projects in Ontario, this marks the first venture of its kind in Alberta.
  • “This project is about helping address the critical housing needs of the nation and foster a resilient, inclusive future through sustainable construction practices.
  • “This multi-build development will not only provide much needed housing but show the immense potential of 3D construction printing to address Canada’s housing crisis.

United States Mint Begins Shipping 2023 American Women Quarters™ Honoring Maria Tallchief on October 23

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Monday, October 16, 2023

Washington, DC, Oct. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the fifth coin in the 2023 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on October 23.

Key Points: 
  • Washington, DC, Oct. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the fifth coin in the 2023 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on October 23.
  • The Mint facilities at Philadelphia and Denver manufacture these circulating quarters honoring Maria Tallchief.
  • “The fifth coin of the 2023 American Women Quarters™ Program honors the life and legacy of Maria Tallchief,” said Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson.
  • Authorized by Public Law 116-330, the American Women Quarters™ Program features coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of American women.

Gangsters are the villains in 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

White settlers targeted members of the Osage Nation to steal their land and the riches beneath it.

Key Points: 
  • White settlers targeted members of the Osage Nation to steal their land and the riches beneath it.
  • From the early 1800s through the 1930s, official U.S. policy displaced thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homes through the policy known as Indian removal.
  • But it failed to account for these trust funds for decades, let alone pay Indians what they were due.
  • From my perspective, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is just one chapter in a much larger story: The U.S. was built on stolen lands and wealth.

Westward expansion and land theft

    • In fact, hundreds of Native nations already lived on those lands, each with their own unique forms of government, culture and language.
    • In the early 1800s, eastern cities were growing and dense urban centers were becoming unwieldy.
    • But the most pernicious land grab was yet to come.

The General Allotment Act

    • Then, in 1887, it passed the General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act.
    • With this law, U.S. policy toward Indians shifted from separation to assimilation – forcibly integrating Indians into the national population.
    • The General Allotment Act was designed to divvy up reservation lands into allotments for individual Indians and open any unallotted lands, which were deemed surplus, to non-Indian settlement.
    • Once this happened, the allotment was subject to taxation and could immediately be sold.

Legal cultural genocide

    • Indian allottees often had little concept of farming and even less ability to manage their newly acquired lands.
    • Even after being confined to western reservations, many tribes had maintained their traditional governance structures and tried to preserve their cultural and religious practices, including communal ownership of property.
    • In total, allotment removed 90 million acres of land from Indian control before the policy ended in the mid-1930s.

A measure of justice

    • The federal government owns title to the lands, but holds them in trust for Indian tribes and individuals.
    • These lands contain many valuable resources, including oil, gas, timber and minerals.
    • But rather than acting as a steward of Indian interests in these resources, the U.S. government has repeatedly failed in its trust obligations.
    • After 16 years of litigation, the suit was settled in 2009 for roughly US$3.4 billion.

Who are the wolves?

    • “Can you find the wolves in this picture?” It’s clear from the movie that the town’s citizens are the wolves.
    • But the biggest wolf of all is the federal government itself – and Uncle Sam is nowhere to be seen.

New Discovery Education and Comcast Study Highlights Opportunity for United States Schools to Help Students Overcome Digital Divide

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digital divide.

Key Points: 
  • However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digital divide.
  • Released to help support this year’s Digital Inclusion Week theme of “Building Connected Communities,” key findings include:
    This press release features multimedia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231003999991/en/
    New Discovery Education and Comcast Study Highlights Opportunity for United States Schools to Help Students Overcome Digital Divide (Photo: Business Wire)
    Nearly all educators surveyed feel strongly that digital equity is more important today than ever before.
  • Addressing these will be critical to ensuring that school districts and digital navigator programs are effective in closing the digital divide for students.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Exhibit features stolen Kainai children's stories of resilience on Treaty 7 lands

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

In Canada, when we talk about truth and reconciliation we have a tendency to focus on the Indian residential school system (IRS).

Key Points: 
  • In Canada, when we talk about truth and reconciliation we have a tendency to focus on the Indian residential school system (IRS).
  • While engaging with knowledge about residential schools and their legacies is an important facet of truth and reconciliation, there are other colonial school systems that we also need to acknowledge, consider and remember.

Multiple colonial schooling models


    The Canadian government initiated and implemented multiple colonial schooling models for over a century and a half beyond the IRS, such as:
    Where one system failed, the government designed a new school system based on the failure of the previous school model to try and assimilate Indigenous children.

Survivors from many school models

    • Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) said, “The Survivors need to know before they leave this Earth that people understand what happened and what the schools did to them.” As a society, it is important that we remember Survivors from each school model and their many impacts on Survivors, their descendants and society as a whole.
    • People need to know and understand the truth about what happened to Survivors and why this happened to them in order to heal and walk the path of reconciliation.

Addressing gaps in knowledge

    • (also known as Akaisamitohkanao’pa, or gathering place) approached me to be a guest curator and create a traveling museum exhibit based on my TRC research, I decided to use the opportunity to rectify the gap of knowledge so many of us have about educational policy.
    • It presents photographs and stories from Survivors, the Canadian government, the Christian religions and their missionaries, the Indian Agents and Indian school inspectors.

Right to know the truth

    • fully adopt and implement the … United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why,” and “iii.)
    • fully adopt and implement the … United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why,” and “iii.)

Multiple Christian churches

    • The exhibit introduces the different Christian churches who created missions on the Blood Reserve, and shows Survivor experiences of missions’ different characteristics.
    • For example, as Survivor Jim Young Pine shares about attending St. Mary’s School:
      “The nuns at the school were French and always spoke French.
    • It was while working outside Kainaisskahoyi that I learned English from non-Natives.”
      “The nuns at the school were French and always spoke French.
    • Churches opened several of the different schools the Canadian government devised to try and assimilate Indigenous children.

Stories from Survivors of institutions

    • The stories are also a testament to the survival of the Blood People.
    • We continue today to practice and live our ways of knowing, being and doing as Siksikaitsitapi.
    • The exhibit concludes on a note of hope by highlighting the resiliency of the Kainai People.

Maintaining our identities as Siksikaitsitapi

    • Today, the Blood Tribe runs its own education programs from early childhood education to post-secondary education.
    • Kainai Board of Education operates five schools (Saipoyi Community School, Aahsaopi Elementary School, Tatsikiisaapo’p Middle School, Kainai High School and Kainai Alternate Academy).
    • The Blood Reserve has worked hard to create education that works towards maintaining our identities as Siksikaitsitapi.

Education as ‘new buffalo’

    • To many Indigenous Peoples across plains regions in Canada, education has become the “new buffalo.” This means just as the buffalo once sustained us for our needs, Indigenous Peoples are adapting education to meet our needs today.
    • To observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and all year,
      let us be reminded of Survivors’ voices from the past century and a half, and as Sinclair said, re-commit our reconciliation efforts to “act to ensure the repair of damages done.”
      As the former TRC chair also said, until people show they have learned from this, we will never forget.

Gateway Promotes Mark Revard to Division Executive Vice President/National Production Manager

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Gateway Mortgage, a division of Gateway First Bank, announced the promotion of Mark Revard to Division Executive Vice President/National Production Manager today.

Key Points: 
  • Gateway Mortgage, a division of Gateway First Bank, announced the promotion of Mark Revard to Division Executive Vice President/National Production Manager today.
  • As a seasoned mortgage executive of over 30 years, Revard joined Gateway to build the Oklahoma market and has held a variety of sales leadership roles over the past 10 years.
  • “Mark loves all aspects of mortgage production and enjoys coaching loan originators on how best to increase their closed loan volume,” says the President of Mortgage Banking for Gateway, Steven Plaisance.
  • He has also served with The Oklahoma Mortgage Bankers Association Board of Directors and the Bishop Kelley High School Board.