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Sharon Paul has some advice for people who want to further their education.
"Go for it!" she says. "If you are going to do it, there are people there to help. There is always support, more than enough if you ask, but it's not going to come to you if you don't ask.
The 42-year-old grandmother speaks from experience. Last May she graduated from the University…
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Officer-in-training Jason Thusky imagined police work would be easy at first, maybe even a little quiet for his liking. But instead he's found himself at the centre of the action.
A recent graduate of the First Nations Tribal Justice Institute in Mission, B.C., he's doing his two-month practicum in the town of Listutuj, Que, a nine-hour drive from his Algonquins of…
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Officer-in-training Jason Thusky imagined police work would be easy at first, maybe even a little quiet for his liking. But instead he's found himself at the centre of the action.
A recent graduate of the First Nations Tribal Justice Institute in Mission, B.C., he's doing his two-month practicum in the town of Listutuj, Que, a nine-hour drive from his Algonquins of…
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The turning point in Margaret Whiteknife's life occurred when her mother died five years ago. Finding it hard to cope, Margaret decided she needed to be around others to boost her out of her sadness. Armed with only a grade nine education, Margaret passed the entrance testing requirements to enroll in the Office Administration Program at Keyano College.
Since then she's…
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The turning point in Margaret Whiteknife's life occurred when her mother died five years ago. Finding it hard to cope, Margaret decided she needed to be around others to boost her out of her sadness. Armed with only a grade nine education, Margaret passed the entrance testing requirements to enroll in the Office Administration Program at Keyano College.
Since then she's…
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The grads of Alberta's Fort Chipewyan college campus of adult education hit record numbers this spring and it's all because good news travels fast, says chairman Dan Creurer.
"More and more people are hearing they can do their grade 12 or equivalent in Fort Chip," he says. The school's credibility in the community has snowballed as its students tell other high school drop…
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The grads of Alberta's Fort Chipewyan college campus of adult education hit record numbers this spring and it's all because good news travels fast, says chairman Dan Creurer.
"More and more people are hearing they can do their grade 12 or equivalent in Fort Chip," he says. The school's credibility in the community has snowballed as its students tell other high school drop…
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University of Winnipeg student Bryan Hart can't think of a degree that will open up more opportunities for him than his split honors in economics and environmental studies.
"I came to the realization a lot of decisions are made based on economic principles. For example-the recent cutbacks in health care and almost all decisions in politics," he says about what got him…
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University of Winnipeg student Bryan Hart can't think of a degree that will open up more opportunities for him than his split honors in economics and environmental studies.
"I came to the realization a lot of decisions are made based on economic principles. For example-the recent cutbacks in health care and almost all decisions in politics," he says about what got him…
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When Spring Squires came to Children of the Earth high school four years ago, she hated school, and only went a couple of times a month.
But today, the attractive 20-year-old mother of two and honors student is president of the school's Grand Council and rarely misses a day. This is just one of many success stories to come out of Winnipeg's first high school created for…
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When Spring Squires came to Children of the Earth high school four years ago, she hated school, and only went a couple of times a month.
But today, the attractive 20-year-old mother of two and honors student is president of the school's Grand Council and rarely misses a day. This is just one of many success stories to come out of Winnipeg's first high school created for…
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A college diploma has brought respect she never thought she'd get to a Dene Nation grandmother.
Raised on Saskatchewan's Black Lake Reserve, 47-year-old Marie Rose Yooya took her place in June as one of the oldest of the 20 business administration graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology in Prince Albert.
"There were several things that had gone wrong and I…
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A college diploma has brought respect she never thought she'd get to a Dene Nation grandmother.
Raised on Saskatchewan's Black Lake Reserve, 47-year-old Marie Rose Yooya took her place in June as one of the oldest of the 20 business administration graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology in Prince Albert.
"There were several things that had gone wrong and I…
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A Newfoundland woman, Danika Edmunds, marked a milestone for Native grads this spring as the first woman of Inuit descent to earn a medical degree.
The 25-year-old woman took her place beside the other proud University of Alberta graduates in Edmonton and was joined at a luncheon later in the day by Noah Carpenter, Canada's only other Inuit doctor. He serves as a thoracic…
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A Newfoundland woman, Danika Edmunds, marked a milestone for Native grads this spring as the first woman of Inuit descent to earn a medical degree.
The 25-year-old woman took her place beside the other proud University of Alberta graduates in Edmonton and was joined at a luncheon later in the day by Noah Carpenter, Canada's only other Inuit doctor. He serves as a thoracic…