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Arctic travel opened by handbook

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The Baffin Handbook - Travelling in Canada's Eastern Arctic

Nortext Publishing Corporation

260 pages

Suggested retail price $14.95

Iqaluit NWT

A new travel guide has opened a spectacular land of adventure right here in Canada.

Imagine a mysterious world populated by some of the most majestic animals in the world, surrounded by a sea teeming with marine life, and covered by a crystalline sky filled with thousands of migratory birds returning to their nesting grounds.

Teacher inducted

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A steady commitment to education led an Alberta woman to forge new paths in community services, and land a coveted award.

Mary Ruth McDougall was inducted in the Lethbridge Community College Hall of Fame April 30 for her outstanding contributions to native education. McDougall iscurrently the co-ordinator of post-secondary education and the Blackfoot language program for the Peigan Board of Education.

Teacher inducted

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A steady commitment to education led an Alberta woman to forge new paths in community services, and land a coveted award.

Mary Ruth McDougall was inducted in the Lethbridge Community College Hall of Fame April 30 for her outstanding contributions to native education. McDougall iscurrently the co-ordinator of post-secondary education and the Blackfoot language program for the Peigan Board of Education.

Teacher inducted

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A steady commitment to education led an Alberta woman to forge new paths in community services, and land a coveted award.

Mary Ruth McDougall was inducted in the Lethbridge Community College Hall of Fame April 30 for her outstanding contributions to native education. McDougall iscurrently the co-ordinator of post-secondary education and the Blackfoot language program for the Peigan Board of Education.

Teacher inducted

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A steady commitment to education led an Alberta woman to forge new paths in community services, and land a coveted award.

Mary Ruth McDougall was inducted in the Lethbridge Community College Hall of Fame April 30 for her outstanding contributions to native education. McDougall iscurrently the co-ordinator of post-secondary education and the Blackfoot language program for the Peigan Board of Education.

Education instrument for NAIT student

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When Lynn Hamilton graduated with a secretarial diploma from the community college in her hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, she felt she was on the way to fulfilling a life-long dream.

"I had originally left high school early, but within two years I realized that education was the answer to getting a comfortable wage and a good career. I thought getting my secretarial diploma was the answer."

Education instrument for NAIT student

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When Lynn Hamilton graduated with a secretarial diploma from the community college in her hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, she felt she was on the way to fulfilling a life-long dream.

"I had originally left high school early, but within two years I realized that education was the answer to getting a comfortable wage and a good career. I thought getting my secretarial diploma was the answer."

Education instrument for NAIT student

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When Lynn Hamilton graduated with a secretarial diploma from the community college in her hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, she felt she was on the way to fulfilling a life-long dream.

"I had originally left high school early, but within two years I realized that education was the answer to getting a comfortable wage and a good career. I thought getting my secretarial diploma was the answer."

Education instrument for NAIT student

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When Lynn Hamilton graduated with a secretarial diploma from the community college in her hometown of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, she felt she was on the way to fulfilling a life-long dream.

"I had originally left high school early, but within two years I realized that education was the answer to getting a comfortable wage and a good career. I thought getting my secretarial diploma was the answer."

Nishnawbe Aski Nation tackles youth suicides

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A northern Ontario tribe is getting $800,000 in government money to deal with a rash of suicide attempts amongst its youth in the last two years.

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), which represents 26,000 people in 43 communities in North-western Ontario, received $400,000 from the federal Ministry of Health and Welfare and $400,000 from the province of Ontario to fund a youth forum on suicide.

In the last two years there have been 23 suicides and 143 recorded suicide attempts in the Nishnawbe territory.