Sasha
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Welcome to Kamloops: 5 Health Care Planning Tips in Kamloops
Welcome to Kamloops: 5 Health Care Planning Tips in Kamloops Tip1: Check Health Link BC HealthLink BC provides access to non-emergency health information and advice in British Columbia. Information and advice is available by telephone, a website, a mobile app, and a collection of print resources. HealthLink BC brought together some of British Columbia’s most…
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Welcome to Kamloops: 5 Banking and Everyday Life Planning Tips for living in Kamloops
Welcome to Kamloops: 5 Banking and Everyday Life Planning Tips for living in Kamloops Tip 1: Get organized with the Newcomers to Canada Day Planner Newcomers to Canada Day Planner goal is to give a quick and easy access to things one needs to know as one builds a new life in Canada, such as: buying…
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Welcome to Kamloops: 7 Housing topics to plan your living in Kamloops
The City of Kamloops consists of the following primary planning neighbourhoods: City Centre, North Shore, Valleyview, Dallas, Raleigh, Heffley Creek, Sahali, Aberdeen, Knutsford, Brocklehurst, Batchelor Heights, Westsyde. Juniper Ridge, Mount Dufferin, Rose Hill, Campbell Creek, Barnhartvale, Mission Flats, Tranquille on the Lake so do your research on where you plan to live and know your…
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Nine Resources to Learn about Kamloops History
The City of Kamloops website provides the following information about Kamloops history : “The Kamloops area has been inhabited by the Secwépemc and Nlaka’pamux peoples, who have lived here for close to 10,000 years. The fur trade arrived in Kamloops in 1811 when three traders came to the area and established trade with the local…
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Eight Resources to Learn about Indigenous Kamloops
Weyt-kp (Hello): Kamloops has a strong Indigenous history. Secwepemc (pronounced Se-KWEP-umk-wh) means “The People”. The word Kamloops comes from the Secwepemc word Tk’emlúps, meaning “where the rivers meet” and refers to the convergence of the North and South Thompson rivers. The Tk‘emlúpsemc, ‘the people of the confluence’, now known as the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc are…
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Welcome to Kamloops: 9 Tips to Settle Successfully in Kamloops, BC
Please check some of the tips Welcome to Kamloops course participants found useful after taking Welcome to Kamloops annual offering of the course. Tip 1: Acknowledge Traditional Territory: CAUT Guide. One can use the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) guide that includes recommended territorial acknowledgement for institutions where CAUT members work, organized by province:…
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Social Work Education in Latin America
January 26, 2018 Verifying a continent and locating all Schools of Social Work in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador, Surinam, Nicaragua, and Venezuela is a monumental task for a person who do not speak Spanish and Portuguese and only briefly visited Peru…
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Social Work Education in South Africa
January 13, 2019 South Africa is one of the countries I haven’t visited yet but thanks to support of Ani who mapped most of the Schools of Social Work in South Africa during the International Social Work course at Thompson Rivers University, as well as social work educators: John Marfia from University of Fort Hare…
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Remembrance Day Long Weekend Reflection
11.11 at 11:11 in Canada in six time zones there is a yearly opportunity for everyone to reflect the meaning of Remembrance Day. Every human being on this planet is affected by the war in one way or another. The recognition of sacrifice and acts of courage of those who bring peace to others should…
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Social Work Education in Ukraine
This summer I had a unique opportunity to visit multiple locations in Ukraine and map all the Schools of Social Work in my birth country. I want to thank Yaryna Ivashchyshyn for all her work in putting each Ukrainian Social Work School location on the Google Map: Schools of Social Work Around the World I…