Education for Everyone

Don Chandler has been a fixture at Salisbury Composite High for a long time. It’s where he graduated from high school and landed his first job as a teacher. Looking back, he sees how the school shaped him into who he is today—a teacher guiding a new generation of Salisbury students. After calling Salisbury home for almost 30 years, he’s certain: there’s no place he’d rather be. Read more

Calvin Howard has a lot of impressive designations under his belt: neurologist, doctor, and most recently, he’s the founder of a new biomedical startup aiming to expedite diagnosing dementia in its early stages. It’s a striking resume by any standard, but his success didn’t come about overnight. Every journey has a beginning, and for Howard, that beginning was in a science class at Fort Saskatchewan High. Read more

Imagine having the opportunity to set yourself up for life while still in senior high. That’s precisely what happened to brothers Jake and Luke Farrell while attending Lamont High. Both brothers enrolled in the school’s fourth-class power engineering program, giving them the training and steam time needed to become certified power engineers—right out of senior high. Read more

For more than 10 years now, Taneen Rudyk’s made a career advocating for her community, serving as a councillor for the Town of Vegreville. Over that time, she’s championed diverse community causes, working with citizens, community partners and all levels of government with one goal in mind: To make Vegreville the best possible version of itself. Read more

Mike Boldt is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, with more than 20 titles to his name. But before he knew he wanted to be an author, before he even knew a career as an artist and storyteller was possible, he was just a student at Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) who loved to draw. Read more

Not everyone can pinpoint the exact moment that set their life on its present course, but film and television actor Sara Canning remembers it vividly: In Grade 7, while auditioning for a school play.

“I don’t remember why I decided to do it,” Canning says. “I was really shy at that age. But as soon as I stepped on stage, I knew I was in the right place. Read more