{"id":60589,"date":"2021-09-13T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=60589"},"modified":"2021-10-05T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:55:30","slug":"two-flags-now-a-permanent-fixture-at-st-albert-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/two-flags-now-a-permanent-fixture-at-st-albert-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Two flags now a permanent fixture at St. Albert Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">A flag-raising ceremony was held at St. Albert Place on Sunday, Sept. 12. The flag-raising was part of the recommendations in the 2019 Payhonin Reconciliation of St. Albert Final Report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Each flag has its own designated spot and will be on permanent display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron says she is happy to finally have the flags up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Grand Chief Vernon Watchmaker says it\u2019s the continuation of reconciliation efforts happening throughout the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cOn behalf of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, it\u2019s one of our mandates to have more events with the local towns, (municipal districts), so that we can bring forth, you know, I guess, education, awareness, of the relationship we have through treaty. I think these events are not just a symbolic gesture, but the beginning of the good discussions that\u2019s going to be taking place. You know, task force teams, and so forth, so it\u2019s all good intentions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dana Stromberg is the Indigenous Relations coordinator for St. Albert. She said the flag-raising kicks off a number of events in the city. They include a dance and arts and culture demonstrations that are open to the public and following Alberta Health Services COVID-19 protocols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">For further information about the events, check out the city\u2019s website at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stalbert.ca\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">stalbert.ca<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0or visit the Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flag-raising ceremony was held at St. Albert Place on Sunday, Sept. 12. The flag-raising was part of the recommendations in the 2019 Payhonin Reconciliation of St. Albert Final Report. Each flag has its own designated spot and will be on permanent display. St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron says she is happy to finally have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":60593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,219],"tags":[9390,9391],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60589"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=60589"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=60589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}