The last INK news day has come and gone. I stumbled on to my last story as I was walking to the story meeting. In the research and innovation centre (or, new lab building, as most students call it) I saw that a crew was setting up the Aboriginal Students Career Centre's career fair. A quick search online found me the organizer, and the story was good to go.

Darlene MacDonald runs the centre and she told me about how the career day is really meant to just show students and employers what opportunities are out there. She said that some students who come from reserves aren't always aware of what jobs are possible with certain degrees, and the career day gives them real physical examples and people to answer their questions.

After that I hung out at the fair, talked to some students, and took some photos.

What really made this story was the fact that I found a recent First Nations University grad who works for a company he first came in contact with at the same fair in 2010.

To find out more details about how the career fair helped him, check out the full article:

Making connections: U of R’s Aboriginal Career Centre’s Career day brings students and employers together

Election!

This week, Saskatchewan had its 27th provincial election, and everyone at Ink worked had to put together a special edition of the paper.

I was assigned to cover the Green Party and their leader, Victor Lau. I arrived at Regina's Hungarian Clun around 8:30, and things were well under way. Right away, I was invited to sit with a group of young candidates and a few of their supporters. I chatted with a lot of people throughout the evening, and they were all so excited to have press at their event.

By 10 o'clock, the night was over, and I had to hurry back to the Ink newsroom to put everything I learned together into a story. Here's the result:
No Green on the other side