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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Central British Columbia will be booting up its courses this year, thanks to an unexpected donation of nearly 200 used computers.

The computers are part of a $354,000 total donation of almost 600 machines by Montreal-based Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited to three Native colleges, and will mostly be used by NVIT to upgrade existing student and faculty systems and support higher learning programs.

The donation came out of the blue for NVIT, which has just completed a new campus.

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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Central British Columbia will be booting up its courses this year, thanks to an unexpected donation of nearly 200 used computers.

The computers are part of a $354,000 total donation of almost 600 machines by Montreal-based Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited to three Native colleges, and will mostly be used by NVIT to upgrade existing student and faculty systems and support higher learning programs.

The donation came out of the blue for NVIT, which has just completed a new campus.

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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Central British Columbia will be booting up its courses this year, thanks to an unexpected donation of nearly 200 used computers.

The computers are part of a $354,000 total donation of almost 600 machines by Montreal-based Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited to three Native colleges, and will mostly be used by NVIT to upgrade existing student and faculty systems and support higher learning programs.

The donation came out of the blue for NVIT, which has just completed a new campus.

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The Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Central British Columbia will be booting up its courses this year, thanks to an unexpected donation of nearly 200 used computers.

The computers are part of a $354,000 total donation of almost 600 machines by Montreal-based Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited to three Native colleges, and will mostly be used by NVIT to upgrade existing student and faculty systems and support higher learning programs.

The donation came out of the blue for NVIT, which has just completed a new campus.

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Representatives of Indian and Northern Affairs arrived in Port Alberni on Oct. 19 to explain the First Nations governance initiative spearheaded by Minister Robert Nault, and to receive input on it from First Nations people.

The initiative is expected to provide First Nations with the tools they need to improve day-to-day operations and strengthen band governments by ensuring transparent, responsive, and financially and politically accountable governance.

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Representatives of Indian and Northern Affairs arrived in Port Alberni on Oct. 19 to explain the First Nations governance initiative spearheaded by Minister Robert Nault, and to receive input on it from First Nations people.

The initiative is expected to provide First Nations with the tools they need to improve day-to-day operations and strengthen band governments by ensuring transparent, responsive, and financially and politically accountable governance.

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Representatives of Indian and Northern Affairs arrived in Port Alberni on Oct. 19 to explain the First Nations governance initiative spearheaded by Minister Robert Nault, and to receive input on it from First Nations people.

The initiative is expected to provide First Nations with the tools they need to improve day-to-day operations and strengthen band governments by ensuring transparent, responsive, and financially and politically accountable governance.

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Representatives of Indian and Northern Affairs arrived in Port Alberni on Oct. 19 to explain the First Nations governance initiative spearheaded by Minister Robert Nault, and to receive input on it from First Nations people.

The initiative is expected to provide First Nations with the tools they need to improve day-to-day operations and strengthen band governments by ensuring transparent, responsive, and financially and politically accountable governance.

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An environmentalist and an Anglican clergyman both told British Columbia's Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on Oct. 18 they should just forget about holding a referendum on the future shape of the treaty process.

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He lay in a watery grave at the bottom of the Columbia River, near Kennewick, Washington until July 1996 when two men stumbled upon his skull. Later deliberate searches turned up a nearly complete male skeleton, scattered over a 300 square foot area near the bank of a dammed lake-like section of the river under the management of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Although no one can bring him back to life, he has received notoriety he could not have experienced during his lifetime aeons ago.