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CBC
11-06-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Why Anishinaabe writer Kyle Edwards sees hockey as a ceremony
Before becoming a writer, like many kids in Canada, Kyle Edwards dreamed of playing in the National Hockey League. Edwards, who grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation and is a member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation, has complex feelings towards the game he loves — and how it doesn't always love Indigenous people back. Edwards' debut novel, Small Ceremonies, follows a hockey team of Ojibwe high schoolers from Winnipeg, who are chasing hockey dreams and coming of age in a game — and a place — that can be both beautiful and brutal. "There is just a hierarchy in sport, in the same way there is in the world, and I think a lot of times sports is a reflection, a mirror of the real world," he said on Bookends with Mattea Roach. Edwards joined Roach to share how sports reflect society and how hockey is its own type of ceremony. Mattea Roach: What kind of a pull does hockey have on you personally? Kyle Edwards: I think it was probably like my first dream as a kid, other than being a writer. I wanted to be a hockey player. When I was growing up, I wanted to go to the NHL. That did not happen. But I loved it. I loved playing the game growing up and I think I always had this sort of conflicting relationship with it just in terms of the different types of violence that are associated with it — mostly on the ice. I think it was where I experienced violence for the first time, both physically and verbally, but I love the game. I think it's very beautiful and poetic and I love how much it means to Canadians and Indigenous people. It's held on such a pedestal that I felt like I really wanted to write about it in this book. What was it like engaging in hockey as an Indigenous person growing up? It was difficult. I grew up on a rez, so you're constantly playing teams from small towns. There's this sort of racial aspect to it, the team from the rez and the team from this small, probably mostly white town and just the history of violence that is Canada, I think it just sort of creates this arena for different tensions and histories that sort of play out on the ice. That was difficult. As a child, there was a time where I just didn't want to be associated with it. But Native people in Canada, Indigenous people in Canada, we just love this game so much. It's really beautiful to see. It brings us together all over the country. There's Indigenous only tournaments all over Canada. Indigenous people in Canada, we just love this game so much. - Kyle Edwards I think we just fight through that. Hockey is known for being such an exclusive sport. It's very exclusive to people who can afford it. People who are of a certain social class. Indigenous people aren't often seen as part of that. But we really don't care in a lot of ways. I haven't been to a rez in Manitoba that doesn't have its own hockey rink and hockey rinks are not cheap. What is the kind of relationship between passion and violence that you wanted to explore in your novel? Passion and violence can be kind of closely related and hard to distinguish in this game. Small Ceremonies follows this team that's sort of being thrown out of the league because they're being perceived as too violent. But one of my biggest concerns while writing the book was that people are going to think this is unrealistic, that this could never happen in Canada. It has happened. This is probably the journalist part of me. It's not directly based on this, but around the time that I was going into university in 2017, there was this really good junior hockey team from this First Nation in Manitoba. They were really good. They went on one of the craziest winning streaks that their league at the time had ever seen. And they ended up going out to win the championship. The very next season, all of the junior teams from small white towns voted to separate from all of the teams that were based on First Nations, including Peguis, who had won the championship, to create their own league because they didn't want to travel to these teams anymore. This was only a few years ago. This all happened before I even started writing the novel. I remember reading that and I was like, "Wow, that's just so typical." You probably wouldn't expect that sort of thing. I wanted to evoke that same sort of shock in this story because I feel like there's going to be a lot of people reading this, a lot of Canadians in particular, who think that this is a type of story that would never happen, but it happens all over the country, and it happened not too long ago. The title of the book is Small Ceremonies. What does ceremony mean to you and to the characters in the book? Ceremonies can be anything, things that get you through the day. Definitely, hockey is one of those ceremonies. There are so many characters in the book that have little things that they cling onto on a daily basis that sort of help them just survive in a way. We think of ceremonies as these huge things, but I think they can be quite small. - Kyle Edwards We think of ceremonies as these huge things, but I think they can be quite small and hockey is a ceremony because it brings us together in the same way that pow wows and sundances do and other different ceremonial things within Indigenous cultures. There's this chorus of characters and each of them, I hope, has their time to shine in the book and they also have very distinct things — they do different practices and rituals that are just so unique to them.
CTV News
15-05-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
Overland flood watch issued in southwestern Manitoba as rain hits the province
While southeastern Manitoba is being ravaged by wildfires, an overland flood watch has been issued for the southwestern part of the province. The Hydrologic Forecast Centre issued an overland flood watch Wednesday for areas south of the Trans-Canada Highway between the Virden-Brandon corridor and west of PTH 10, which includes Souris, Melita and Boissevain. The centre said 80 millimetres of rain could fall by May 16, while other parts of the province could get anywhere from 20 to 70 mm. 'Heavy rainfall over a short period may create high surface runoff which could lead to overland flooding, regardless of current soil moisture condition,' the province said in a news release. Manitobans are being told to stay off waterways and to stay away from flooded areas. Along with the flood watch, the forecast centre said high winds are expected along the south basin of Lake Manitoba, as well as the west side of Gimli and the east side of Victoria Beach on Lake Winnipeg. 'North wind gusting up to 80 kilometres per hour and the resulting wave action could raise water levels by as much as five feet or more.'
CBC
15-05-2025
- CBC
2nd body recovered after malfunction stranded Sandy Bay First Nation boaters on Lake Manitoba
A Sandy Bay First Nation man who was missing for almost a week after his boat got into trouble on Lake Manitoba has been found dead. Manitoba RCMP said two men, age 22 and 41, launched a boat from behind the water plant in the First Nation, which is about 130 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, on May 8. Their boat suffered a malfunction but because of high winds, the local fire department could not launch its own boat to assist, RCMP previously said. Authorities found the body of the 22-year-old man on May 9, after it washed up on the shore. The body of the 41-year-old man was recovered from the lake on Wednesday, RCMP said in a news release Thursday. The boaters were last seen roughly 200 metres from shore southeast of Halls Beach, roughly 10 kilometres away from the water plant, on May 8. Neither was wearing a life-jacket at the time. Central Plains RCMP said they are still investigating.
CBC
09-05-2025
- CBC
1 boater dead, another missing after malfunction stranded them on Lake Manitoba
A Sandy Bay First Nation man is dead and another man is missing after their boat suffered a malfunction and got stranded on Lake Manitoba Thursday. The two men, ages 41 and 22, had launched a boat earlier that day from behind the water plant in the First Nation, which is about 130 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Their boat suffered a malfunction but because of the high winds, the local fire department could not launch its own boat to assist, RCMP said on a news release Friday. The Sandy Bay Fire Department contacted RCMP for help around 8 p.m. Thursday. RCMP said the boaters were last seen roughly 200 metres from the shore southeast of Halls Beach, roughly 10 kilometres away from the water plant. Neither was wearing a life-jacket. At around 9 a.m. Friday, the body of the 22-year-old man was found on the shoreline, police said. Underwater recovery teams from Manitoba and Saskatchewan RCMP continue searching Lake Manitoba for the 41-year-old, with help from the Manitoba First Nation Police Service and the Sandy Bay Fire Department.
CTV News
08-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Province to give wildfire update as another Manitoba First Nation declares state of emergency
A map showing where Lake Manitoba First Nation is located in Manitoba. (CTV News Winnipeg)
