After losing two sons, a mother starts over as a student with a purpose
One day in September, a slim woman in jeans and a blazer walked into Room B210 of Mount Royal University in Calgary. She sat down at a front-row desk, took out a pen and paper and prepared to take notes.
Ms. Young Pine decided to go back to school. Leaving home and family behind, she enrolled in an open-studies program at Mount Royal, hoping to gain the skills to ease the toll the crisis was taking on her Indigenous community in southern Alberta. Then one day everything changed. Her father fell into a sudden coma from an undetected brain tumour. Her mother took her and her two sisters to live in the city of Lethbridge, Alta., a huge culture shock for the girls. Milly’s dad died at the age of 39, when she was just 12.
The opioids crisis has devastated the community. Almost every family has been touched. The Alberta government reports that, in 2020, Indigenous people in the province were seven times more likely than others to die from illicit drugs. Kyle’s death made her turn to Indigenous spirituality. It gave her faith that this was not the end of the road.
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