Jimmy Kalinek soars high in the sky during a blanket toss activity that was hosted during Inuvik’s National Indigenous Day celebrations on June 21, 2019. Shot for Inuvik Drum
A Westcana Electric employee installs a new yellow traffic light box in Creston, B.C. on Sept. 4, 2020.
A fan watches the 49th annual Panda Game football match between the University of Ottawa GeeGees and the Carleton University Ravens at TD Stadium in Ottawa, Ont., on Sept. 30, 2017. The Ravens won 33-30 in OT, in front of a sellout crowd of 24,420 people. Shot for The Charlatan
A person wears a surgical mask with “I can’t breathe” written on it marches in a Black Lives Matter rally in Ottawa on June 5, 2020. Tens of thousands took to the streets of downtown Ottawa to protest police brutality and anti-Black racism.
The lives of three boys who ran away from Inuvik’s Stringer Hall residential school in 1972 were honoured at a ceremony in Inuvik, N.W.T. on June 6, 2019. Bernard Andreason, Dennis Dick and Lawrence Jack Elanik were no older than 13-years-old when they set out on foot to return home to the neighbouring community of Tuktoyaktuk, a journey that spanned two weeks. Andreason managed to make it home, but his two friends died along the way. During the ceremony, Elders and family members of the two boys prayed over Andreason, centre, who turned 58 later that year. Shot for the Inuvik Drum
Two youth cross their arms during a memorial event in Kelowna in honour of the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were discovered at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. June 2021
Westbank First Nation (WFN) councillor Jordan Coble plays a drum song outside of the WFN office near Highway 97 in Kelowna. The office served as one of five caravan start points for the Caravan in Unity event on June 26, 2021, which saw a convoy make its way to the site of the former Kamloops Residential School later that day.
Gyro Beach, Kelowna, B.C. April 2021
A couple goes for a morning stroll along the trails of Tin Can Hill in Yellowknife, N.W.T., January 2019.
Going for a walk in Crawford Bay, B.C., on Jan. 14, 2021.
People go for a swim in Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. June 2021
Okanagan Lake, Kelowna, B.C. June 2021
Construction of Creston’s red grain elevator. Creston, B.C. March 2021
An Indigenous woman participates in a drum song during a memorial event in Kelowna in honour of the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were discovered at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. June 2021
Three women — Meagan Louis, Carol Laboucan and one who asked to remain anonymous — stood at the top of the Kelowna courthouse’s steps on June 10, 2021, condemning Curtis Sagmoen and violence against women.
Soumia Bentefrit during a solidarity march and rally for Palestine. Kelowna, B.C. May 2021
A woman wipes her eye and raises a fist in the air during the second annual Women’s March in Ottawa on Jan. 20, 2018. Shot for Centretown News
Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd blows smoke out of his mouth during the group’s performance at the Ottawa Bluesfest music festivalon July 14, 2018. Shot for The Charlatan
Canadian animator Richard Reeves examines a strip of film in his Creston home studio. November 2020. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance
Tivoli Theatre employee Noah Doyle sits inside of the theatre’s ticket booth during its soft-opening night on Oct. 26, where they hosted the second annual 7th Siding Film Festival’s third screening event. Shot for the Creston Valley Advance
The Lower Kootenay Band partnered with the Canadian Army Reserve to host military exercises on the Band’s wetlands in Creston, B.C., on Feb. 20, 2021. The initiative was designed to simultaneously help with the restoration process of the Band’s marsh landscape. The hope is that nature will run its course and the craters will naturally fill with water over time, where they will serve as future habitats for ducks and geese.
