'Long overdue': Construction begins on community for Indigenous Albertans

People gathered Tuesday on what is now an empty lot. However, by spring of next year, they're hoping it will be a new community full of women and children. "The construction should be completed by the 24th of May," said the Blackfoot Family Lodge Society's (BFLS) executive director Mary Ann Crow Healy. The BFLS will be redeveloping the land once occupied by a church into 14 townhomes for Blackfoot women and children moving to Lethbridge from the Kainai, Piikani and Siksika reserves. These townho