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Distance learning has provided an educational opportunity that decades ago was impossible for people living in isolated communities, with limited resources, or in a restricted family situation.
“The big advantage to distance learning is they’re able to stay in their communities and learn,” said Glenn Mitchell, dean with Northern Lakes College. “People are able to stay home.”
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After years of providing post-secondary schooling the traditional way, two established organizations are now making the leap to e-learning.
“There’s tremendous potential for it. There’s real potential in northern Alberta and in the north, to provide courses to Aboriginal students who are in remote areas,” said Seaneen O’Rourke, dean of programs with the Yellowhead Tribal College.
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The Deadly Lady Art Triumvarite exhibit at Contemporary Calgary, formerly the Art Gallery of Calgary, is unique in the manner of its creation and its multi-faceted themes.
Running until May 4, the 11 pieces in the exhibit incorporate traditional elements of Aboriginal spirituality and the text of original historical documents in mixed media installations that include wood, tarp, blanket…
Many residential schools were built from brick so artist Dawn Marie Marchand has invited survivors, their descendants and their spouses to draw their stories in the form of a three inch by nine inch piece of brown paper.
“I want to recreate the stories on a wall and I wanted to use a medium that was easily accessible and anybody could mail,” said Marchand of choosing the brick-shape.…
Jen Lee with Sandra Crazybull, Mi Yvonne Cita, Allan Merovitz and Chantal Stormsong Chagnon at Calgary’s 6th Annual Valentine’s Day Women’s Memorial March.
Missing, murdered women honoured with march
On Feb. 14, the Sixth Annual Valentine’s Day Women’s Memorial March took place beginning with speeches at Scarboro United Church and ending at 14 Street…
March recognizes missing, murdered men, boys as well
Papaschase First Nation Chief Calvin Bruneau led the Memorial March in Edmonton, which took place on Valentine’s Day. An annual event honouring missing and murdered women, similar marches took place in other cities across Canada. This year, Edmonton’s march also honoured men and boys who are missing or who have met an…
Literacy is central to keeping youth out of the criminal justice system.
“A lack of literacy means a lack of employment. It is very difficult to get a job if you can’t read or write,” said Kyle Dube, executive director of YOUCAN Youth Services and vice chair of REACH Edmonton board. “These young people need to see the importance of employment, which only comes from being literate.”…
Fort McKay First Nation and Brion Energy will not be going to court.
The two signed an agreement on Feb. 21 for the development of the Dover oil sands project, four months after the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the First Nation could argue Constitutional and treaty rights in its appeal of the Alberta Energy Regulator’s approval of the Dover project, a 250,000-barrel-per-day…
For Chief Wilton Littlechild the seventh and final national event for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be different than the others he has attended.
“It’s kind of a reunion for me as well and I look forward to putting certain parts of my life behind me. This event will help me personally,” he said.
Littlechild, one of the commissioners with the TRC, spent 14 years in…
“Damage control” is the term Kevin Ahkimnachie uses to describe the forum hosted Feb. 27 by the University of Alberta Water Initiative to go over the work being undertaken by the province and Sherritt International Corp. to address the Obed Mountain Mine coal slurry of last October.
“It’s more of a damage control type of thing for Sherritt, backed up by the Alberta government and they…
“The Air We Breathe” video has been released by the Cumulative Environmental Management Association in the Dene and Cree languages. The videos have been distributed to high schools in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo to be used to educate youth about regional air issues and as a language tool for those students studying Dene and Cree. Copies have also been distributed to all the First…
Round two of Fort McMoney, an interactive documentary game developed by TOXA and the National Film Board of Canada, launched on Jan. 27. The game allows participants to take control of Fort McMurray and decide the virtual fate of the world’s largest energy project. The second round of the game features new missions and exclusive, previously unseen content. Feedback from players who…
A joint British Columbia-Alberta government working group says improving energy literacy, developing a First Nations engagement model and continuing talks on world class spill prevention systems are needed to spur more energy transportation between the two provinces. The report was prepared for Premiers Alison Redford and Christy Clark and released in January. Among its recommendations is the…
Paul First Nation and Focus Equities Inc. intend to move forward with connecting the proposed 1,000 MW Great Spirit Power Project to the Alberta grid. The new combined cycle, clean burning natural gas-fired power plant is proposed for the Paul First Nation’s industrial park, with construction of the facility to be completed in 2017. Paul First Nation and Focus Equities signed a memorandum of…
The joint venture operations between Cold Lake First Nation and Golconda Resources Ltd. is moving ahead with well licences issued for the next three wells of the 10-well program on Cold Lake First Nation lands. All three wells are to be drilled by mid-February. The 12-31 well continues to produce approximately 65 barrels of oil per day. Sales of produced oil, as first announced on Oct. 16,…