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Dear Colleagues and Learners,

Due to the ongoing Rogers Internet service disruption, all classes and services at Algonquin College’s Ottawa , Pembroke, Perth and AC Online campuses are being cancelled for the remainder of the day (July 8). All learners and employees, who are not essential to helping to re-establish College internet connectivity – or deemed essential by their manager – should please end their day early. Updates will be provided as soon as they are available.

Thank you,

Claude Brulé

President and CEO

The cover of Ollie’s Telescope which showcases Blanchard’s beautiful illustrations.

Writing and illustrating a children’s book was never a fated endeavor for Samantha Smadella and Kaitlyn Blanchard but when they stumbled upon a story that needed to be told, the pair immediately put pen to paper to take on the challenge.

Smadella and Blanchard are both students of the Therapeutic Recreation program, a healthcare profession that deals with five domains of recreation and leisure: physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual. Smadella explains that recreation therapy takes shape in a variety of ways in different spaces — from children’s palliative care to long-term care for the elderly.

“Therapeutic recreation helps provide meaning to peoples’ lives,” says Smadella. “It touches on all the things that make us human outside of the menial day to day tasks.”

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Saturday’s ‘Community Unity’ Indigenous fashion, music and arts show was a huge success! The event took place in Algonquin College’s Indigenous Learning Commons, Nawapon, and was presented by Anangosh Model and Talent Management — a non-profit Indigenous model management and talent agency developed by activist, educator and model, Kyrstin Dumont.

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