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The Governor General’s office has terminated singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada.

Randy Boissonnault is out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet after months of controversy surrounding his former medical supply business.

The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

wildfires in Alberta are coughing up clouds of smoke that are obscuring the sky and hazardous to health.However, there’s so much smoke that wildfires are being shaded from the sun and daytime temperature highs in some areas are cooler than forecast, leading to reduced fire activity.Wildfire officials say they are expecting “increased and significant fire behaviour” when the smoke clears as hot and dry weather continues.About 7,500 people in Alberta have been forced to flee their homes because of wildfires, with five communities under evacuation orders.That includes all three communities in the Little Red River Cree Nation, which is being threatened by an out-of-control wildfire complex that’s estimated to be more than 960 square kilometres in size.Environment Canada says cooler temperatures are expected to start moving into northwestern parts of the province starting Monday night, though hot conditions may persist through much of the week farther south.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has been removed from the ranks of Canadians holding the country’s top honour.In a notice posted to the Nov. 4 edition of the Canada Gazette, the federal government said Turpel-Lafond’s appointment to the Order of Canada was terminated “at her individual request.”The termination was signed on Sept.

.”It was done in Cree custom and while Sainte-Marie didn’t claimed proof of blood relations, she is accepted as kin because of that ceremony.“It’s really insulting that someone would question my great grandfather’s choice and right to adopt Buffy as his daughter,” Piapot said.“No one has the authority to question our sovereignty, we are a sovereign nation, we are sovereign people and our adoption practices have been intact since time immemorial.“Having someone question the validity of that adoption … it’s hurtful, it’s ignorant, it’s colonial, and quite frankly it’s racist.“Sainte-Marie’s authorized biography written by Andrea Warner reads “There’s no official record of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s birth, not really. At least not a satisfactory and decisive one that answers questions before they’re asked, grounded in a family lineage with all the gifts and baggage that accompany that kind of belonging.”The book continues, “born with the given name Beverly, most likely in 1941, on or around February 20th, and probably on a reserve called Piapot in the Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan.

In the last year, Skye Sanderson says she has lost everything.