News Archive
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Portage College and Lac La Biche County co-host Moose Hide Campaign awareness event
May 30, 2025The Moose Hide Campaign event in Lac La Biche earlier in May drew awareness to the continuing issue of violence and exploitation against Indigenous people. Organizers and guest speakers say the campaign has a wide-reaching focus of awareness for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
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Portage College Round Dance resonates year round
May 29, 2025The Portage College Educational Round Dance happens once a year at the northeastern Alberta college, but feedback and planning for the event happens all year long, say organizers.
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Flowserve Donation
May 26, 2025A new valve valued at more than $12,500 was donated by Flowserve and provides an essential component of the Power Engineering Lab, which operates as a fully functional power plant with a boiler, steam turbine, electric generator, and auxiliary equipment.
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Two Programs Suspended at Portage College
May 22, 2025Portage College is suspending its Heavy Equipment Operator (HEO) program and the Professional Cook Certificate programs for the 2025-26 academic year.
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Instructor and former Portage College Practical Nurse student wins 2025 Distinguished Instructor Award
May 21, 2025Jackie Lubemsky is a 2025 Distinguished Instructor Award winner. The Cold Lake Portage College Practical Nurse instructor was presented with the honour at the recent Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association conference.
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Red Dress Day and Moose Hide Campaign bring awareness
May 7, 2025Speakers share intimate and tragic stories about MMIW Girls and Two Spirit Persons at Portage College Red Dress event. Calls to action need to continue, say families, until the crisis is solved. Moose Hide Campaign walk raising awareness about gender-based violence in Lac La Biche is on May 15
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Portage College Launches Addictions Counselling Diploma
May 6, 2025Portage College is excited to announce the approval of its Addictions Counselling Diploma program. The application process began last year, with the full support of the Alberta government.
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Portage College honours "Red Dress Day", national MMIW Girls and Two-Spirit Persons day of awareness
May 1, 2025May 5 marks somber awareness day for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit persons
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Clothing drive hosted by Portage College staff social committee
May 1, 2025The success of a clothing drive put on by the Portage College social committee at the Lac La Biche campus has blown the pants off all expectations.
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Portage College Announces Apprenticeship Carpentry and Apprenticeship Heavy Equipment Technician Programs
April 16, 2025Portage College is excited to announce new trades program expansions, including Apprenticeship Carpentry and Apprenticeship Heavy Equipment Technician, set to begin in Fall 2025
We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.