Doig River opens new micro gas stationÂ
Doig River First Nation recently opened its community-owned micro gas station to continue moving the community toward self-reliance and sustainability.
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My name is Manavpreet Singh, and I was born and raised in Panjab. I came to Canada as an International student and studied at SFU.
I learned the discourse on media and how it is not merely a tool for news but a powerful technology where reason triumphs the passion. My passion is reading philosophical texts, and I am particularly interested in understanding technology and its impact on colonialism. I will be covering stories coming out of Indigenous communities and trying to explore their language and traditions. Being brought up in rural Panjab, I feel a personal connection with the First Nation communities as our histories though geographically and culturally, are pretty different, there is a common bond of homelessness that we Sikh community share with them.
I am very excited to be working at Energeticcity.ca and covering indigenous stories. This position has been funded by the Government of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative. More by Manavpreet Singh
Doig River First Nation recently opened its community-owned micro gas station to continue moving the community toward self-reliance and sustainability.
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