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Author of the article: Submitted Publishing date: Apr 08, 2021  •  2 days ago  •  3 minute read  •  Article content Supported by $659,174 in federal funding from the Future Skills Centre, the two-year research project will examine the impact of a Zero Fee Tuition concept already underway in the Town of Drayton Valley. New partnerships with the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Extension and other post-secondary institutions across the province will allow the Town to provide expanded offerings for the 2021 program year. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try re...

Author of the article: Jeff Labine Publishing date: Feb 10, 2021  •  February 10, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Article content The Alberta government is spending $714,000 over two years to develop a new campus at the University of Alberta to help veterans transition to the civilian world. The two-year pilot project announced on Feb. 4 will offer specialized on-campus supports and resources for military veteran students to help them achieve their career and educational goals. Students can begin accessing the services during the 2021-22 academic year. The province hopes that the pi...

CONTENT: Article Growing up in a multicultural diaspora household in Toronto and seeing the struggles and obstacles faced by her parents over the years, Bunisha Samuels is keen to confront the challenges facing racialized communities in Canada. Samuels’s mother is Tamil and immigrated to Canada in the 1980s during the Sri Lanka Civil War and her father is second-generation Canadian of Jamaican descent. “My parents placed a huge emphasis on education. For me, it was a way to engage in community work and create accessible and informed spaces,” Samuels says. She knew early on that she wan...

Jessica Shoemaker is Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her work on adaptive change in pluralistic land-tenure systems, as well as property law’s power to shape the contours of human communities and natural environments. Her work focuses specifically on issues of racial justice and agricultural sustainability in the American countryside and on systems of Indigenous land tenure and land governance in the United States and Canada. Her most recent law-review articles, including Fee Simple Failures: Rura...

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