Science and Research committee  I think there are lots of really great examples of that. The minister's task force on northern post-secondary education and research, for example, called for more significant investment in researchers and research collaborators. What it means is that we don't have southern resear

Science and Research committee  I think there are lots of barriers that indigenous institutions and indigenous governments are still facing when it comes to actually getting equitable access to the resources to conduct their own research. There are still barriers within the tri-council policy that limit the kin

Science and Research committee  I actually just applied for a tri-council grant, but unfortunately, because of the status of Dechinta and despite having many researchers who are working within our organization, we had to apply through a third party, which was a southern research institution, in order to actuall

Science and Research committee  Hello. My name is Kelsey Wrightson. I'm the executive director at Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. We are a land-based post-secondary research and education institution that's based here in Chief Drygeese territory in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories. We do pr

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you so much for that question. As you indicated, stable long-term funding is really important for us to be able to continue to invest in the relationships to deliver new and innovative programming. Part of that is also having really healthy communication with the governme

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd like to echo that. The support of community is so important. In our last three years, 94% of the graduates from our programs were actually women. That, I think, is a result of the kinds of programming—barrier-reducing programming—decisions we made, which were to include famil

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's just that I learn...and I see this in my colleagues every day and the students every day. I hear in the words of our students reflecting on the programs that being able to connect to their community and their culture is so empowering and completely transforms how they see th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mahsi cho. Thank you so much for that question. It really raises a lot of things that we have heard over and over again from students, from parents and from elders, the concern of people moving away, of losing their connection to family and also students not wanting to leave the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Long-term funding, I think we've heard many times, is so important to being able to establish stable long-term relationships with the communities we're working in. What we have been able to do since the first commitment of funding, our first long-term funding agreement with the f

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start by saying that in our programming our success rate in getting students to complete programming is close to 98%. In the last five years, we've only had two students unable to complete their programs, and they're actually coming back this upcoming semester to complete th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Wonderful. My name is Kelsey. I'm the executive director at Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. I'm joining you today from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. I have the great honour and privilege of working at Dechinta, where we've been delivering award-winning, i