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Spirited debates with her father helped lead a young Nadia Verrelli toward a career teaching political science and, on Tuesday, to seek the federal NDP nomination for Sudbury.
Verrelli said the federal government can do more to advance the interests of Indigenous peoples, end violence against women and improve long-term care, and pledged Tuesday she would fight for those causes if elected as the next MP in her home riding.
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In launching her bid for the nomination, the former Laurentian University political professor also promised to push for a national pharmacare program and took aim at the governing Liberals for not preventing the sweeping cuts that have impacted faculty, staff and students at the local university â including Verrelli herself.
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Spirited debates with her father helped lead a young Nadia Verrelli toward a career teaching political science and, on Tuesday, to seek the federal NDP nomination for Sudbury.
Verrelli said the federal government can do more to advance the interests of Indigenous peoples, end violence against women and improve long-term care, and pledged Tuesday she would fight for those causes if elected as the next MP in her home riding.
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In launching her bid for the nomination, the former Laurentian University political professor also promised to push for a national pharmacare program and took aim at the governing Liberals for not preventing the sweeping cuts that have impacted faculty, staff and students at the local university â including Verrelli herself.
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The provincial government says it wants to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine a stand-alone university, something that Lakehead University in Thunder Bay opposes.
Debt-laden and insolvent Laurentian University in Sudbury – which shares the medical school with Lakehead – has not commented publicly on the proposal, even when asked to do so by The Sudbury Star.
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On April 15, the province announced that in the wake of Laurentian’s financial troubles, it would act to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine independent of either university.
He loved Nunavut: Polar bear biologist who died in helicopter crash remembered
by Emma Tranter, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 30, 2021 9:20 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 9:28 am EDT
IQALUIT A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research.
That’s how friends and colleagues are remembering Dyck, a polar bear biologist with the Nunavut government, who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay on Sunday. Two crew members also died.
Harvey Lemelin, a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and a close friend of Dyck, said he’s still processing the news of his death.
Emma Tranter
Markus Dyck, a polar bear biologist for the Nunavut government, sits outside his tent while doing field work in Cape Sydney, Nunavut in May 2009. A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Dyck died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Sunday. Two crew members also died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Peter Van Coeverden de Groot MANDATORY CREDIT April 30, 2021 - 3:04 PM
IQALUIT - A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research.
That s how friends and colleagues are remembering Dyck, a polar bear biologist with the Nunavut government, who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay on Sunday. Two crew members also died.