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Teachers at the fall camp learn how to navigate in a canoe.
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Envirothon camp schools teachers in science of water management

The Redboine Watershed District annually hosts a competition for students, but 2023 was the first teachers-only camp

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Teachers recently got a taste of what their students experience during the Redboine Watershed District’s annual environmental issues competition. Thirteen teachers from across the province made their way to Kiche Manitou Lake in Spruce Woods Provincial Park in late September for a three-day boot camp of water science and outdoors skills training. Activities were based
“It is clear from the quality of all the bursary applications we received that the future of the agriculture industry in Manitoba is bright.” – Robert Misko.
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Manitoba Crop Alliance awards six students with 2022-23 bursaries

Students must be from member farms and be enrolled in Manitoba agricultural programs

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Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) has awarded six students from Manitoba with MCA 2022-23 bursaries valued at $2,000 each. The six bursary recipients are Kaitlyn Christine Hunt-Delaurier from Laurier, Lianne Rouire from Treherne, Milan Lukes from Gunton, Stephanie Manning from Souris, Hannie Peters from Ile Des Chenes, and Alison Manness from La Salle/Domain. “I would like
Russ Edwards, founder of WGI Westman Group, now has ACC’s ag school as a namesake -- which was more recently given a new logo to match.
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New moniker – and major donation — for ACC ag school

Incoming ag students at ACC will now be joining the ‘Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment’

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Assiniboine Community College’s (ACC) ag school has a new name, plus another $4 million to help expand programming. On Oct. 17, the college announced its school of agriculture and environment will be newly dubbed, “the Russ Edwards School of Agriculture and Environment,” after the founder and owner of WGI Westman Group. The name change comes after a
Program to provide free ag training for Indigenous students
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Program to provide free ag training for Indigenous students

The ACC program aims to give opportunities to students without the barrier of cost, and to help fill workforce gaps

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Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will provide a tuition-free program to train Indigenous students for jobs on farm it announced January 6. The Agriculture Equipment Operator program is a partnership with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP). “Removing the cost of training, a significant obstacle to employment, allows students to gain the skills and knowledge required
Lane Routledge (left) and Brooke Tolton (right), recipients of Gilchrist’s bursaries in 2015, stop to thank Archie Gilchrist (centre).
Farmit Manitoba, News

Former resident leaves a lasting legacy for Hamiota grads

Archie Gilchrist had been anonymously awarding bursaries for local grads for years, now funds provided by his estate will carry on the tradition

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For the past number of years, an anonymous $500 bursary has been presented to two graduating students from Hamiota Collegiate each June. Several things changed this year: the “look” of the graduation and awards ceremony itself, the anonymity and amount of the award. Why it matters: The previously anonymous source of bursaries to Hamiota graduates
COVID-19 is showing us that some of the least-appreciated workers in our society — the workers on the farm, in the food factories and in the grocery stores — are some of the most important.
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Editorial: Students and the farm labour crisis

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Amidst all the disruption, the suffering and the fear, the one good thing you could say about our ongoing experience with COVID-19 is that it has peeled back the layers of our society to expose the raw — and sometimes unpleasant — truths about what we truly value. When childcare workers can earn more income
File photo of cattle being rounded up at a southern Alberta ranch. (Design Pics/Getty Images)

Foreign workers starting to arrive, livestock group says

About 2,000 have recently arrived, several thousand more here soon, feeders say

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About 2,000 foreign workers have arrived in Canada in recent weeks and more should be here soon, an official with the National Cattle Feeders Association says. “There are about 4,000 more that are expected to arrive shortly, so the process is starting to work,” Janice Tranberg, the association’s president and CEO, said during a telephone
Clockwise from top left: Acey Brinkman, Colin Penner, Jill Martens, Garrett Sawatsky.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

University of Manitoba growing next generation of ag experts

U of M’s agriculture diploma program preparing students for an evolving industry

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Fast-moving change in the agriculture industry is requiring a whole new level of agility from Canada’s agriculture education institutions. At the University of Manitoba, that’s meant instructors are looking for ways to make students more agile and able to adopt new strategies and tools more quickly and effectively. “We’ve talked with industry that said it’s
Students from Carman Collegiate present on how they taught elementary aged kids about watersheds and conservation at an MCDA conference in Winnipeg on Dec. 4.
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Manitoba students turn conservation teachers

High school students developed lesson plans for elementary schoolchildren

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Students from Pilot Mound, Swan Valley and Carman won recognition and cash for teaching kids about watershed conservation in the first Healthy Watersheds Student Project competition. “It’s a pleasure to watch these kids,” said Cliff Greenfield, manager of Pembina Valley Conservation District as he announced the first-place winners at a Manitoba Conservation Districts Association conference on Dec. 3. The assignment asked Grade 8 to
Shoal Lake Grade 12 student Austin Tataryn received his laptop from Richardson Pioneer representative Rick Kienas at a June 12 presentation at Shoal Lake School.
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Gently used laptops find a new home

Former Richardson employee works with the company to donate surplus machines to high school graduates

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Thirty high school students from Shoal Lake and Strathclair each recently received a refurbished laptop thanks to a joint initiative by Shoal Lake School alumna Jennifer Stefansson and Richardson International Limited. The new program is for high school graduates who have contributed to their community but do not have a laptop and intend to pursue

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