CFNR Network
Mar 11, 2021 3:12 PM
We’re speaking with Myia Antone, founder of a new non-profit organization based in Squamish on this program, a young woman who is helping break down barriers and increase participation and leadership opportunities for Indigenous Women in the outdoors.
Myia is currently a full-time student, but dedicates a lot of her free time to helping run various programs – part of her mission with Indigenous Women Outdoors to “hold space for Indigenous women to come together and feel safe on the land”.
From backcountry touring, to planned mountain biking programs, the organization is holding true to it’s goals.
Contact North B.C. is expanding its access for post-secondary students in remote communities.
New learning centres in remote northwestern B.C. communities are providing on-site supports and reliable online access to programs at all 25 of the province’s public post-secondary institutions.
Contact North B.C. is a collaboration between Coast Mountain College and Indigenous communities. It was created with the goal of expanding post-secondary access for students living in remote and rural communities where there are also large numbers of Indigenous students. Since the soft launch in January 2021, students have registered in more than 400 courses.
The Province is providing approximately $1.5 million for the project that will offer services across the traditional territories of the Haida, Nisga’a, Gitxsan, Wet’suwet’en, Tsimshian, Haisla and Tahltan Nations. School District 92, School District 54 and the Métis Nation in Terrace will also be participating.
Northern Health continues to report Covid-19 school exposures.
Between March 1 and 3 Charles Hays Secondary School reported an exposure event. Ecole Roosevelt Park Community School in Prince Rupert reported exposure between March 2 and 5. Mount Elizabeth Secondary School in Kitimat reported an exposure event on March 1. Caledonia Secondary School in Terrace reported an exposure event on March 1 and 3.
Northern Health is reminding everyone that no action is required unless contacted directly by Northern Health.