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Wet’suwet’en Report: Māori Iwi & Bathurst Resources Educational Trip to Aotearoa (New Zealand)
The Office of the Wet’suwet’en (OW) and Witset First Nation have prepared this report for the Wet’suwet’en community summarizing the Māori Iwi & Bathurst Resources Educational Trip to Aotearoa (Māori word for New Zealand). Tenas Coal is an open pit coal mine proposed to be built in Wet’suwet’en Territory. The mine site would be located […]
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Indigenous Innovator: Veronica Sayer – First Nations Technology Council
November 25, 2024 This is the fifth edition of our Indigenous Innovator Series where First Nations Technology Council alumni tell their stories about how digital skills have made a positive impact in their lives and communities. Name: Veronica Sayer Nation: Yellow Quill First Nation (mother Glen Mary Metis Settlement) Course Completed: Futures Digital Marketing, Futures […]
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School board is first to offer virtual Indigenous language courses – Bay Today
November 22, 2024 ‘Students can go from no awareness of the Nipissing dialect to being able to express conservatively hundreds of thousands of sentences in Ojibwe,’ the online teacher explained The Near North District School Board (NNDSB) is offering online Ojibwe language courses for students throughout Ontario. It’s the first board to so, the NNDSB […]
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Quebec school system failing Indigenous students, auditor general says – Global News
November 22, 2024 Quebec’s auditor general says the province’s Education Department has done little in the past two decades to help Indigenous students in Quebec, whose graduation rates lag behind those of Indigenous students in other provinces. In her report published Wednesday, Guylaine Leclerc said the Quebec government knew about a major gap in success rates between Indigenous […]
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Minister of Education delivers 2023–24 Annual Report
Nov 21, 2024 Today, Minister of Education Jeanie McLean tabled the Department of Education 2023–24 Annual Report, in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act. The report highlights the department’s key activities of the 2023–24 fiscal year and reflects information current as of March 31, 2024. The 2023–24 Annual Report highlights some of the […]
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Brandon University student wins 2024 MCIE International Award
November 20, 2024 A Brandon University student who is also president of the Brandon University Students’ Union has been highlighted by the Manitoba Council for International Education (MCIE) as the province’s Outstanding International Student for Universities in 2024. Charles Adamu was in Winnipeg last week to be presented with the award by Minister Renée Cable […]
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Indigenous Lodge gives Eastview students ‘representation of self’ within school – Barrie Today
Nov. 21, 2024 ‘It’s a space where students are free to express themselves and are free from harm and discrimination,’ says Grade 11 student The room itself may be only 646 square feet, but the feelings of acceptance, representation and culture it has contained within its four walls over this school year is much bigger. […]
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Brandon University Celebrates Dr. Michelle Lam as Canada Research Chair in Rural Community Education for Reconciliation – Discover Westman
Nov 21 2024 Brandon University is thrilled to announce that Dr. Michelle Lam has been appointed as a Canada Research Chair in Rural Community Education for Reconciliation. This prestigious recognition, and $500,000 funding over five years, underscores Dr. Lam’s commitment to exploring the role of education in advancing reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples, settlers, and newcomers, […]
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Media advisory – Canada and Yukon to announce funding for arctic and northern security
From: Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency Whitehorse, Yukon, November 20, 2024 — Media are invited to attend a funding announcement supporting arctic and northern security. This announcement will be made by Dr. Brendan Hanley, Member of Parliament for the Yukon, on behalf of the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for […]
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NSMTC – Minister Hutchings shares Rural Economic Development, What We Heard report
On November 12th, 2024, the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Minister of Rural Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, released a What We Heard report as a follow up to the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministerial Meeting on Rural Economic Development held in May 2024: The second annual federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) ministerial meeting […]
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