(From left to right): Algonquin College President Claude Brulé, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg council member Douglas Odjick, Tony Quedent and Shirley Commanda, Indigenous Studies program coordinator Marina Westbrook, Faculty of Arts, Media and Design dean Heather Ryall, and Indigenous Studies chairperson Tracy Norris on stage at the March 31 launch of the Ottawa campus’ Indigenous studies diploma and certificate program for the fall semester. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)
Algonquin College’s Ottawa campus launches a one-year certificate and two-year diploma in Indigenous studies
Algonquin College is launching two new Indigenous studies programs aimed at equipping Indigenous students with cultural knowledge, giving them leadership skills or setting them on the path to further studies.
Eleven-month-old Jackson Enook-Churchill holds tight to his mother Uluappak Enook during the opening ceremony Feb. 28 of the new home for Tumikuluit Saipaaqivik Child Care Centre in Apex. It moved there from its former site downtown. Baby and mom were among approximately 40 people who came to the ceremony at Iqaluit’s only Inuktitut daycare, along with Jenna Sudds, the federal minister of families, children and social development, Premier P.J. Akeeagok and Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)