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  • Spotlight: Smithers is a campus for everyone

    For Titi Kunkel, the Acting Vice President of Academic, Students and International at Smithers, it’s the best place in the world to be.
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  • Spotlight: Bringing the textbook to life

    Growing up in Sooke, B.C., Chevy Alexander was always curious about the thousands of species that surrounded her. When she learned about the ACE diploma program at CMTN, she knew it was the perfect place to get her education.
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  • Students help students with new mental-health resource

    Post-secondary students will be better equipped to help their peers struggling with mental-health concerns, thanks to a new, free educational resource B.C. students helped design......
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  • Spotlight: Coast Mountain College’s mental wellness initiatives support student events and overdose training

    Coast Mountain College’s (CMTN) first suicide prevention student engagement officer Emma De Vynck has been making an incredible impact across the region.......
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  • CMTN holds Mental Health Matters Photo Contest as part of End Stigma Month

    Coast Mountain College is holding a mental health matters photography contest for a chance to win a JBL Go speaker. Post a photo on your social media account using the hashtag #CMTNmentalhealthmatters by Feb. 20 to be entered into the contest.
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  • Health Care Assistant

    Learn and practice personal care skills that transfer directly into the work setting. Next intake starts Jan 2021.......
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  • Skills Canada: student spotlight and regional winners

    The Skills Canada BC’s 2019 Provincial Competition is being held this spring and Coast Mountain College student Gwynn Hall is taking her passion for cooking to the provincial level to compete...…
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  • Student spotlight

    Like many international students studying at CMTN, it is Frida’s first time in Canada. The mountains, forests and ocean have really had an impact on her experience.....
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  • Student spotlight: Hobiyee 2020

    Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art student Smiddy Grandison explains what it’s like to celebrate the Nisga’a new year, Hobiyee.
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  • Spotlight: Kyle Yaroshuk-Pryce, Lieutenant Governor’s Medal recipient

    Congratulations to Kyle Yaroshuk-Pryce for receiving this year's Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for his devotion to his community of Prince Rupert, BC........
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  • Spotlight: Eric Zweirs, 2020 Valedictorian

    Congratulations to this year's Coast Mountain College class of 2020 Valedictorian, Eric Zweirs, a Business Administration graduate.........
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  • Spotlight: Dr. Laurie Waye honoured by the Canadian Armed Forces

    Coast Mountain College’s Vice President Academic (Interim) Dr. Laurie Waye has been honoured with a certificate of appreciation for outstanding support to the Canadian Armed Forces..........
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  • Spotlight: Linnea Waechter, Governor General Collegiate Bronze Medal recipient

    Congratulations to Linnea Waechter for receiving this year's Governor General Collegiate Bronze Medal for obtaining the highest grade point average in the Winter 2020 semester. Congratulations for receiving a 4.25 and inspiring fellow classmates to reach for the stars.......
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  • B.C. students to get health education for in-demand jobs

    Students throughout British Columbia have more opportunities to train for careers as health-care professionals, thanks to focused investments in post-secondary education and training........
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  • Spotlight: Hazelton students access carpentry training close to home

    Parked just outside the Hazelton campus sits Coast Mountain College’s glacier coloured mobile trades training unit. It represents learning in close to home and brings education to the doorstep of students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access trades training in their own community.......
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  • COVID-19 update #18 - Updated Public Health Orders

    Updated Public Health Orders in effect until April 19, 2021.....
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  • Spotlight: Never too old to learn

    When Verginia Johnson decided to go back to school, it had been decades since she sat inside a classroom. At 53 years old she enrolled at CMTN to get her BC Adult Graduation Diploma and despite life's hardships, kept going to be a good role model for her grandkids.
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  • Spotlight: Attending school in hometown to help family

    Growing up in a single-parent household, Alicia Giang says attending college in her hometown of Prince Rupert while still being able to help out her family was incredible. Through school, she learned about the region and gained a new appreciation for her northern coastal community.
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  • Spotlight: Creating a home away from home

    When the opportunity came up for First Nations Access Coordinator Jillian Stephens to help curate a theme for the interior aesthetic of the new student accommodation building, she just couldn’t say no.
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  • Spotlight: A flight in the right direction

    Trading year-long sun for winter is a choice that not many people would take, but for DeAnndra Sands it was one of the best decisions of her life when she moved to Canada from the Bahamas to pursue a degree at Coast Mountain College.
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