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Improving Access to Driver Training in Northern Manitoba
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 4, 2023 Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) and University College of the North (UCN) are partnering to launch a new program to increase access to driver training programming in northern Manitoba. The UCN Class 5 Adult Driver Training Program will help create safer roads and improve workforce development in this critical area…
Read MoreUCN Announces Expanded Child Care Programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2023 (The Pas/Thompson, MB) – The University College of the North is excited to announce the significant expansion of its childcare programs following approval from the Manitoba Department of Advanced Education and Training. The expansion includes modifications to the following programs: ” Early Childhood Education Diploma program ” Early Learning…
Read MoreArticle 20: Summer Adventure Savings Challenge
Jodi Johnson It was a beautiful May morning, and Daisy Povey’s alarm abruptly interrupted her peaceful dream. It was time for her to start the day. She had a quick shower, got herself dressed and made breakfast for her three children before it was time to wake them. She quietly tip-toed into each of their…
Read MoreArticle 19: The Women Beside You
Jett Bignell This is the story of how I died. When I say this, I do mean literally. The girl with the bright future and all the promise in the world, gone. Was it worth it? Were the temporary moments of love and affection worth the abuse? Abuse, when people hear this, they never…
Read MoreArticle 18: Missing Missy
Jamie Bignell I was in the first grade when I met her. I didn’t know then that she would be my heart-to-heart dog, but she was! I remember coming home early from school. We were sent home because a snow storm was bearing down on my town. As I opened the door to…
Read MoreArticle 17: You Will Never Understand: A Parody of “I Tell You True” by Ali Cobby Eckermann
Madison Gurniak Ali Cobby Eckermann was born in 1963 in Adelaide and identifies herself as a Yankunytjatjara/ Kokatha. As Aboriginal, Eckermann has endured some of the distressing challenges the community has suffered in history. She was adopted at a tender age and continually suffered sexual abuse and immense racism. She gave birth at the…
Read MoreArticle 16: My Mother’s Hands
Tena Hart As I look upon my mother’s hands, I see the beauty of the world that she has held. In every vein and wrinkle her soft hands speak of a life that is filled with love, triumphs, and adventure. With her hands she has traced love into the tiny fingers of me and my…
Read MoreArticle 15: “You should’ve drowned that thing in the piss pot!”:A Memoir about my Grandmother
Jill Burton When she thinks back on her childhood and my grandmother utters those words sometimes, she laughs, a dry hollow laugh, like the wind blowing through a birch tree in the dead of winter. Sometimes she’s silent and it takes my brain a few seconds to unravel the actual words and put them into…
Read MoreArticle 14: Anterograde
Ally Finnerty The warm autumn morning of September 21 is the vacation day. The sleeping beauty, Bianca Blue, is fast asleep in her bed. She is a young woman living alone in a tight-knit apartment complex with her neighbours living close by. With her parents living across the country, she must fend for herself to…
Read MoreArticle 13: An Indigenous Male Perspective of Indigenous Feminism
Desmond K. Canning Feminism has been defined and redefined by different feminist movements and scholars over time (Calixte, Johnson, & Motapayne, 2017). Feminist ideology focuses on the male dominance and inequality experienced by the female gender. While feminism is gender-specific, it has been debated whether feminism can be universally implied since not all cultures and…
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