If you walk away now, you’re going to walk away from everything in life.’“It was easy for us to walk away,” her father Terance said. CALGARY—Putting on her hockey gear and stepping onto the ice was Brigette Lacquette’s refuge when she was a kid. Lacquette (pronounced la-KWET) is not the first Indigenous woman to compete on Canada’s team — her teammate Jocelyne Larocque of Ste. “To be that person to pave the way for many young First Nations girls across Canada, it’s exciting for me,” Brigette said. If a kid gets bullied, I think they can realize that ‘Oh, she went through it too.’“My message is you’re going to go through valleys and you’re going to go through the mountains of life.

Source: thestar February 02, 2018 21:22 UTC