Two medical students have been selected as the first residents of Canada’s territorial residency program. Kasja Heyes and Thomsen D’Hont, soon to be graduates of the University of British Columbia’s medical school, were recently matched with the University of Alberta's Yellowknife Family Medical Residency Program. The placement is particularly important for D’Hont, who is Métis and grew up in in Yellowknife. His 2017 policy paper focused on increasing the number of northern doctors that were born and raised in the Northwest Territories.

Algonquin College has launched a corporate partnership initiative with PCL Constructors Canada Inc to help further the College’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation. The DARE6 concept is based on an Indigenous governance model derived from the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, Confederacy. Algonquin Vice President of Truth, Reconciliation & Indigenization Ron (Deganadus) McLester described how Algonquin drew on the history of the Iroquois Confederacy in wanting to establish special partnerships between the College and half-a-dozen corporate stakeholders – hence, the DARE6 name.

The Shawanosowe School in Whitefish River First Nation has celebrated the official grand opening of a state-of-the-art daycare centre. The new space has been several years in the making, and includes a circular gathering area, a spacious kitchen area with stool seating, designated lockers for the children, and dedicated learning wings with student and staff work spaces. Each learning wing will have sliding partition walls, so that the space can be adapted to the needs of the day.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled in favor of the Alberni School District No 70, supported by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council who served as intervenors, on the recent Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70 court case. Parent Candace Servatius argued that the religious freedoms of her children were infringed up on when they participated in smudging and hoop dance ceremonies, adding that the school district should be prohibited from holding similar events in the future.