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Digital Skills Bursary Fund for Indigenous Peoples in BC: A Pathway to Opportunity
December 3, 2024 Growing up in my community, access to quality education was limited. For example, the 30-1 stream of courses, which would have helped me continue onto college or university, was not offered in my community. If students wanted to take these programs, they had to leave home and attend schools in surrounding areas. […]
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BC’s French School District Is Suing the Province. Again. – The Tyee
Dec 2, 2024 It’s about where kids learn. Here’s how we got here. More than four years after the Supreme Court of Canada declared that B.C. owes its francophone school district 19 additional, renovated or expanded school buildings, the Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique and the province are back in court. B.C. is home […]
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Indigenous Self-Determination & Canada’s National Parks – First Peoples Law LLP
November 28, 2024 For many Indigenous people, Canada’s national parks are synonymous with colonization. In October, Parks Canada took an initial step towards addressing the longstanding relationship between colonization and national parks through its new Indigenous Stewardship Policy. Below, we consider the potential implications of the Policy for Indigenous Peoples seeking to implement their inherent […]
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Guardian pulls kids from Vancouver school, saying school staff failed to deal with bullying – CBC
Nov 27, 2024 ‘There just aren’t the things in place to protect disabled students’ The guardian of two First Nations girls with disabilities is calling out their elementary school for negligence and withholding information after one of the girls was pushed into mud and allegedly groped by another student. The girls’ older sibling and legal guardian, […]
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Experiences of girls at Good Shepherd Homes similar to residential schools, say survivors – CBC
Nov 27, 2024 Special Interlocutor says institutions like the homes for girls also need investigation Indigenous children at Catholic-run Good Shepherd Homes had experiences similar to children at residential schools and the homes need further investigation for potential missing children, according to the final report of the Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial […]
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Joint Statement for the Canada-Wide Days of Action for Child Care
November 26, 2024 Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC BC Aboriginal Child Care Society Métis Nation BC Early Childhood Educators of BC Our organizations join with allies across Canada to highlight the need for all families to have equitable and barrier-free access to quality, culturally responsive child care. This goal can only be realized […]
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University of Victoria getting into the giving spirit – Peninsula News Review
Nov 26, 2024 UVic is gearing up for the award-winning gamification of giving The University of Victoria is taking the message behind Giving Tuesday to heart and looking to play it forward. UVic is getting ready to add some fun to philanthropy and make a difference in the lives of thousands of students on Giving […]
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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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Cowichan Valley School District appoints interim superintendent – Lake Cowichan Gazette
November 18, 2024 Jeff Rowan has been appointed as the interim superintendent of the Cowichan Valley School District as of Nov. 18. Rowan, who is currently the district’s assistant superintendent of communications, Indigenous education and holds several other leadership portfolios, will be the interim superintendent while the district undergoes the process of appointing a permanent […]
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