Minister's Photo Gallery - 2007 Archive

The Province is investing $2.25 million in a new B.C. Leadership Chair who will research new and effective treatment approaches to addiction. The Providence Health Care B.C. Leadership Chair in Addiction Research will support leading-edge research and the development of innovative treatment approaches by a world authority on addictions. From left: Stephen Shapiro, CEO, St. Paul's Hospital Foundation ; Dr. Trevor Young, Head, UBC Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Gavin Stuart, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Aslam Anis, Director, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences; Yvonne Lefebvre, President, Providence Health Care Research Institute; Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; Dr. Michael Krausz, Providence Health Care BC Leadership Chair in Addiction Research; Lorne Mayencourt, MLA Vancouver-Burrard; Dr. Martha Salcudean, Chair, Leading Edge Endowment Fund Board; David Farrar, Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC; Dianne Doyle, CEO, Providence Health Care; Dr. Julio Montaner, Director, Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS . [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (far right) and Education Minister Shirley Bond listen as Shawn Atleo, B.C. Regional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, presents his key note address at the 2007 Teachers' Congress. The congress brought together public, independent, band school and student teachers from across the province to participate in a day-long dialogue about the education system.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell welcomed the Honourable Milica Cubrilo, Minister of the Diaspora, Republic of Serbia, her Chief of Cabinet Dragana Petrovic and Peter Vladikovic, the Honorary Consul, Consulate of Serbia at Vancouver to the B.C. Legislature. The group is in B.C. to attend the Serbian Film Fest taking place in Vancouver. From left: Peter Vladikovic, Dragana Petrovic, the Honourable Milica Cubrilo, Minister Coell and Ruth Wittenburg, assistant deputy minister at the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, centre, chats with Nathan Mathew, Thompson Rivers University and Nancy Morgan, Morgan and Associates. The forum brought together First Nation representatives, post-secondary administrators and provincial and federal government officials to discuss Aboriginal post-secondary education policy and programs.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell with Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia president Chris Petter and executive director Robert Clift at the reception during the Campus 2020 Taking the Next Steps seminar. The seminar brought together stakeholders, academics and government officials to discuss Geoff Plant's review of B.C.'s higher education system.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell joins UBC administrators, faculty and students in celebrating the reopening of Buchanan Building C, the fifth of 10 University of British Columbia facilities to be renovated through a $120-million partnership between the Province and the university called UBC Renew. From left: UBC president Stephen Toope; Stephanie Ryan, president of the Arts Undergraduate Society and a political science student whose department is housed in the restored building; Nancy Gallini, dean of the faculty of arts; and Geoff Atkins, UBC’s associate vice-president of land and building services.

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Advanced Education Minister Coell cuts the ribbon to officially open Island Tech 2007. From left, Brent Jordan, director of events, Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC); Dan Gunn, executive director, VIATeC; Minister Murray Coell, Robert Bennett, VIATeC Board of Directors, and Ellen Henry, director of Operation and Member Relations, VIATeC. Island Tech 2007 celebrates the world-class innovation, research and technology that’s being generated on Vancouver Island. It’s a venue for local technology companies and research agencies to meet and show off their creations to each other and the public.

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From left, Dr. Alan Winter, Genome BC, Dr. Robert Young Leadership Chair recipient, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, Dr. Michael Stevenson, president and vice-chancellor Simon Fraser University, Dr. Martha Salcudean, chair of LEEF board of directors, Dr. Rick Friesen, Executive Director, and Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Frosst Research Laboratories. The B.C. Leadership Chair in Pharmaceutical Genomics in Drug Discovery will support leading-edge pharmaceutical research and the development of new drugs to help treat diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. [News release]

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From left, Leadership chair recipient Dr. Robert Young and Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell. Provincial government funding, through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund, has contributed $2.25 million to the creation of this $4.5 million endowed chair at Simon Fraser University. Young's research will be directed at developing new drugs that will target specific diseases and will initially focus on osteoporosis and bone degenerative diseases.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, the Chair of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce Lindalee Brougham (left) and Associate Dean of the School of Business at Camosun College Leelah Dawson (right) at the "Meet the Grads!" event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Victoria during Small Business Month. The event brought together the best and brightest students from Camosun, Uvic and Royal Roads to meet potential employers in the greater Victoria area.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell with Richard Olesen, Dean of School of Business, Camosun College, along with faculty and students, at the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce hosted "Meet the Grads!" event. The Minister announced at the event two new business degree majors in marketing communications management, and human resource management and leadership. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell meets with the President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators, Cindy Oliver and members of the FPSE Presidents' Council. FPSE represents faculty associations from colleges, university-colleges and institutes across the province. President Council members include faculty associations from Capilano College, Thompson Rivers University, College of New Caledonia, Douglas College, Kwantlan University College, College of the Rockies, University College of the Fraser Valley, Malaspina University College, Selkirk College, Camosun College, Langara College, Vancouver Community College, North Island College, BC Open University, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology Employee's Association, Private Sector Faculty and Staff Association of BC and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Faculty Association and Academic Workers' Union.

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The $12-million Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence/Jim Kassen Industry Training Centre opened at Northern Lights College in Fort St. John. The centre, which will prepare students to enter the oil and gas industry, is the result of successful private-public partnerships, corporate and personal donations and local support.
From left to right: Peace River South MLA Blair Lekstrom; Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Richard Neufeld; Northern Lights College President Jean Valgardson; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell and Northern Lights College Board Member Wendy Normandeau. [News release]

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Leadership chair recipient Dr. Tom Boyce, left and Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell announcing the Sunny Hill Health Centre B.C. Leadership Chair in Early Childhood Development. Provincial government funding, through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund, has contributed to the creation of this $4.5 million endowed chair at the University of British Columbia. Boyce and his colleagues are seeking to understand how genes and early social experience can work together to influence a child’s health and development over time. [News release]

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From left, Dr. Geoff Hammond, scienitific director of Child and Family Research Institute, Dr. Clyde Hertzman, director, Human Early Learning Partnership, Dr. Martha Salcudean, chair of LEEF board of directors, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, and Dr. Tim Oberlander, representing Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children at the announcement of the $4.5 million Sunny Hill Health Centre B.C. Leadership Chair in Early Childhood Development. The chair's research will focus on disorders of mental and physical health in early life, and offer new insights into why children growing up in stressful or impoverished circumstances sustain a larger share of illness and misfortune. The B.C. Leadership Chair in ECD is part of the initial provincial commitment of $45 million for LEEF and helps fullfill government's commitment to establish 20 permanent leadership chairs across British Columbia.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell joins BCIT acting president, Verna Magee-Shepherd, at the opening of BCIT’s new $76.5-million aerospace training campus, Canada’s first post-secondary institution with control tower simulation technology. Aerospace and aviation in B.C. is a growing, multibillion-dollar industry, and this advanced campus will help to ensure the sector has the skilled labour it needs to continue to grow. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, second from right, joins the family of Dr. William A. Webber, the University of B.C.’s longest-serving dean of the faculty of medicine, in front of the newly named William A. Webber Medical Student and Alumni Centre. Dr. Webber, who died last year, was instrumental in the building’s creation.

From left: Heather O’Donnell, UBC third-year medical student; Anne Sutherland Boal, COO, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority; Dr. David Hardwick, UBC faculty of medicine, special adviser to the dean, planning; Dr. Lynn Doyle, president, UBC Medical Alumni Association; Susan Hannah, William Webber’s daughter; Marilyn Webber, his wife; Dr. Eric Webber, William Webber’s son and assistant dean, postgraduate medical education/associate professor, surgery, UBC faculty of medicine; Eric Webber’s wife Farah; their two children; Dr. Charles Slonecker, professor emeritus, cellular and physiological sciences, UBC faculty of medicine; Dr. Geoff Appleton, president of the B.C. Medical Association; Minister Coell; and Dr. Gavin Stuart, dean of UBC’s faculty of medicine.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell along with Vancouver-Langara MLA Carole Taylor and architect Stephen Teeple officially opened Langara College's new library. Government funding of $29 million has added more than 7,700 square metres of space for teaching and learning at one of our province’s busiest campuses. The new library is fitted with unique environmentally-friendly features such as nine -metre wind towers that move air into the building while the rooftop weather station gauges the outdoor climate and adjusts the amount of ventilation needed indoors through a number of computer-activated windows. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell presented this year’s class of 256 first-year student doctors with white lab coats to celebrate the fulfilment of government’s promise to double the number of spaces for first-year medical students in British Columbia. As of this year, the Province is funding 256 first-year spaces in the University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine. The program is delivered in collaboration with the University of Victoria, the University of Northern B.C. and all the province's health authorities. [News Release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (fourth from right) is pictured during his tour of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, where he met with students from British Columbia, who are attending the college on full scholarships awarded by the provincial government. From left to right: Clare McNamee-Annett, Pearson College director David Hawley, Rebecca Walker, Carter West, Jacob Schweda, Minister Coell, Graham Reeder, Nessa Kenny and Lindsey Doehle.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell gets a lesson in digital drumming from student Matthew Jenkins and faculty member Patrick Pennefather during the official opening of the Centre for Digital Media at Great Northern Way. The Masters of Digital Media program at the centre is a two-year graduate degree program that will offer students a team-based learning environment. Students will be trained for a range of skills such as developing video game software and implementing computer graphics into film and television. [News Release]

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At a reception held by Merck Frosst Canada for leaders in university and hospital-based research, biotech, health care and business from left to right, Lyne Fortin, vice president, sales and marketing support; Rémi Ménes, acting vice-president, respiratory/musculoskeletal products; Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; Franck Aton, executive director, human resources; Dawn Graham, president, Merck Frosst Canada Ltd; Christian Sauvageau, executive director, specialty and hospital products; Stephanie Brown, executive director, diabetes and new products; Richard Garant, executive director, vaccines; Dr. François Bertrand, exective director, medical; Gregg Szabo, executive director, policy & reimbursement; Diana McDougall, executive director and general manager, Merck Frosst/Schering Pharmaceuticals.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, left, meets (from left) co-op students David Oxley from the University of Liverpool, Kyle Leach from the University of Guelph, Alexander Grint from the University of Liverpool, and Samantha Lloyd from Thompson Rivers University. The minister was touring TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, at the Vancouver campus of the University of B.C.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (second from left) tours a section of the TRIUMF facility with research, technology and innovation assistant deputy minister Brent Sauder (far left), MDS Nordion Inc. Vancouver operations general manager Jerry Porter (second from right), and Nigel Lockyer, director of TRIUMF. TRIUMF, a consortium of Canadian universities, including UBC, SFU and the University of Victoria, is one of three subatomic research facilities in the world specializing in the production of intense beams of particles, and houses the world’s biggest cyclotron, accelerating 1,000 trillion particles per second.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell and Education Minister Shirley Bond present Jace Albrecht from Okanagan College with a certificate and a provincial pen at a luncheon to honour 11 of the B.C. medalists at the 13th Canadian Skills Competition held in Saskatoon in June. Albrecht won a gold medal in carpentry.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell and Education Minister Shirley Bond are pictured with Kyle Bramhoff (centre) from Kwantlen University College, who won a bronze medal in welding at the 13th Canadian Skills Competition held in Saskatoon in June. Bramhoff attended a luncheon in Victoria at which 11 B.C. medalists at the competition were honoured for their achievements in trades and technology.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (third from right) and Education Minister Shirley Bond (third from left) helped honour the achievements of 11 British Columbia medalists from the 13th Canadian Skills Competition, held in Saskatoon in June. The medalists, who took part in secondary and post-secondary trades and technology competitions, attended a lunch in Victoria where they were each presented with a certificate and a provincial pen.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell met with members of the Architectural Institute of BC, the Building Designers Institute of BC and the Interior Designers Institute of BC June 21 to discuss issues of interest to the sector. The ministry is responsible for the legislation governing architects in British Columbia.

From left, Carson Noftle, Tony Loughran, Grant Longhurst, Bonita Thompson, David R. Wilkinson, Minister Murray Coell, Dorothy D. Barkley, Carol Jones, Keath Seeton and Dave Mackey.

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Abbotsford-Clayburn MLA John van Dongen, left, University College of the Fraser Valley president H.A. Bassford, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, regional innovation chair recipient Professor DJ Sandhu, and Abbotsford-Mount Lehman MLA Mike de Jong announce the B.C. Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Business and Economic Development. Provincial government funding, through the Leading Edge Endowment Fund, has contributed to the creation of this $2.5-million endowed chair at UCFV. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell announces a $9-million investment in new student spaces, loan reduction and enhanced training for residential care aides and home support workers at B.C. public post-secondary institutions. Minister Coell made the announcement while touring the construction site of Vancouver Community College’s new Broadway campus, where 16 of the seats will be offered. [News release]

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Premier Gordon Campbell announces a $10-million investment to create the province’s first-ever graduate scholarship program to attract the best and brightest students to B.C.’s four research universities. The Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship program provides 1,000 scholarships, worth $10,000 each, over the next four years to master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria and the University of Northern B.C. From left, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, graduate student David Flanders and Premier Campbell at UBC. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell presents the first ever B.C. technology industry scholarship awards at the British Columbia Technology Industry Association awards gala. From left, Matthew Drouin (Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.), Ward Newman (College of New Caledonia, Prince George, B.C.), Minister Murray Coell, Mary Howie (Pleasant Valley secondary school, Armstrong, B.C.), Rajan Gandhi (Claremont secondary school, Victoria, B.C.) and Niall McPherson (Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.).

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From left, Arvind Gupta, scientific director of MITACS, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, David Fracchia, vice-president of technology at Radical Entertainment, Don Avison, president of the University Presidents' Council of B.C.and student intern Scott Beatty get a demonstration from intern Todd Keeler on how video games are created at Radical Entertainment in Vancouver.

The Province invested $10 million to triple the size of an internship program where graduate students will work with businesses to help increase B.C.'s competitiveness. The funding will allow MITACS, a national research network,  to provide more than 650 internships over the next four years. All provincial public post-secondary institutions that offer graduate programs will be eligible to take part in ACCELERATE BC – B.C.'s Graduate Research Internship Program

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (second from left) and John Les, Public Safety and Solicitor General Minister (far right) officially open the Justice Institute of B.C.’s Public Safety Simulation Building. Joining the ministers is president Jack McGee (right) and Bruce Hall, board chair (far left). The Province invested $2.4 million of the $3.2 million total to build the facility that is the only post-secondary institution in the world to offer the state-of-the-art technology used to train emergency responders for disaster situations of all kinds.

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Minister of Advanced Education, Murray Coell (left), Jack McGee, JIBC president (centre) and West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan at the opening of the Justice Institute’s Public Safety Simulation Building. The JIBC is the only post-secondary institution in the world using Hydra software that was acquired from Scotland Yard. The software uses specialized audio and video that gives responders a chance to deal with realistic, life and death training scenarios in the applied learning lab. The building also houses a simulation lab with enough space to put on physical training scenarios like riots, car accidents and rappelling exercises.

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From left, David Hall, chair of Life Sciences British Columbia; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, Minister on Industry Maxime Bernier, Karimah Es Sabar, president of Life Sciences British Columbia and Dale Gann, vice-president of Vancouver Island Technology Park cut the ribbon at the opening of the BC Pavilion at the BIO International Conference in Boston. The conference had more than 19,000 global attendees who met in Boston for four days to network and discuss new ideas in the biotechnology industry.

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From left, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell; Minister Raymond Bachand, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade from Quebec; Minister Sandra Pupatello, Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues; Premier Dalton McGuinty of Ontario; Maxime Bernier - Minister of Industry Federal Government of Canada get ready to cut the ribbon to open the Canada pavilion at the BIO International Conference in Boston. The conference drew a record 22,366 attendees, a nearly 15 per cent increase from the previous year, with representatives from 48 states and 64 countries.

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Team BC in front of British Columbia’s pavilion at the BIO International Conference in Boston.

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From left, Don Avison, president of the University Presidents Council; Karimah Es Sabar, president of LifeSciences BC; ADM Brent Sauder; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell; David Dolphin, board of directors for Genome BC; Dale Gann, vice-president of the Victoria Island Technology Park stand at the entrance to the BIO International Conference. Innovators in biotechnology from around the world connect at the conference with investors, executives, policy makers, government leaders, and journalists to discuss the boundless potential of biotechnology in health care, agriculture, energy, and industry.

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From left, Dale Gann, vice-president of the Victoria Island Technology Park; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell; and Karimah Es Sabar, president of LifeSciences BC; visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while attending the BIO International Conference 2007 in Boston. MIT is devoted to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in the fields of science and technology.

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Researchers from 10 Canadian universities and Vancouver’s TRIUMF facility gathered at SFU to celebrate ATLAS, the most elaborate particle physics experiment in the world. ATLAS will explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe. Once the experiment begins vast amounts of data, the equivalent of five million DVDs a year, will flow from ATLAS to an international grid of computer data analysis centres around the world. The ATLAS Data Analysis Centres, located in 10 countries, is being led in Canada by Simon Fraser University.

Back row, (left to right), Mario Pinto, vice-president research, SFU; Mike Vetterli physics department, SFU; Alan Shotter, Outgoing Triumf Director. Second row from back,(left to right), Robert McPherson, University of Victoria/IPP; Colin Gay, UBC; Don Brooks, UBC; Robert Orr, University of Toronto; Colin Jones, research, SFU; Walter Davidson, NRC; Front row, (left to right), Michael Stevenson, president and vice-chancellor, SFU; Douglas Gingrich, University of Alberta/Centre for Particle Physics; Nigel Lockyer, Incoming Director, TRIUMF; Alan Astbury, Professor Emeritus, physics, UVic; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell; Eliot Phillipson, president, Canada Foundation of Innovation. [News release]

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From left, SFU president Michael Stevenson, SFU chancellor Brandt Louie, Dr. Eliot Phillipson, president and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell at the opening of the Technology and Science Complex 2 at Simon Fraser University. TASC2 is home to 4D Laboratories, a lab that will bring together chemists, physicists and engineers to conduct research in the forefront fields of molecular electronics, as well as the use of nanomaterials (smaller than the eye can see) in medicine. Other research groups housed in TASC2 study a wide range of issues — from greenhouse gas reduction to the monitoring and analysis of global media. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (centre), Rick Hansen (right), president and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation, Thompson Rivers officials and community members from Williams Lake celebrate the opening of the new campus at a ribbon cutting ceremony and the conferral of an honorary doctor of letters on Hansen. The Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development provided $12 million and TRU contributed the additional $3.2 million to build the nearly 7,000 square-metre campus. It houses a new library, 13 additional classrooms, science and computer labs, seminar rooms, large workshops for trades training and 40 faculty offices.

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Three winners of the Queen’s Venturer Award – the top honour in the Venturer section of Scouts Canada – join Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell and other guests at a lunch in Victoria celebrating this year’s provincial awards. From left, Alyshah Pirani; Canadian Navy Capt. Bill Truelove, commander of the Fourth Maritime Operations Group; Jason Tucker, deputy council commissioner of the Scouts’ Youth Cascadia Council; Minister Coell; Kevin Li, Scouts Canada board of governors; and Lieut. Barry Whelan, of the Fourth Maritime Operations Group.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell helps break ground at the construction site of Camosun College’s Pacific Sport Institute. Phase One of construction will build a double gymnasium, sport science and sport medicine facilities, multi-purpose classrooms and labs, a resource centre, fitness and wellness facilities, student amenity spaces and an all-weather playing field. In total, the Province is providing up to $24.5 million to Camosun College for this unique project. [News release]

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell holds an artist’s rendering of the Pacific Sport Institute at Camosun College with Ida Chong, Minister of Community Services.

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From left: Jim Reed, chair, Pacific Sport Institute steering committee; Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education; Susan Haddon, college and community liaison director, Camosun College; Ida Chong, Minister of Community Services; and Lloyd Craig, president and CEO of Coast Capital Savings attend the official groundbreaking ceremony of the Pacific Sport Institute at Camosun College, Interurban Campus. The Pacific Sport Institute's facilities will provide educational programming in sport leadership, coaching and sport science, athlete and coach development; and sport medicine within a single centre making it the first of its kind in Canada.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell received a popsicle stick bridge created by B.C. students at the kick-off breakfast for National Engineering and Geoscience Week. From left, Minister of Agriculture and Lands Pat Bell; president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Tim Smith; Minister Murray Coell; Community Services Minister Ida Chong; Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon; past president of APEG BC Dennis McJunkin; West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan; Employment and Income Assistance Minister Claude Richmond, and Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations John van Dongen.

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Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (left), Education Minister Shirley Bond and Norman Riddell, CEO of Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation take questions about post-secondary and career planning from Grade 10 Delta Secondary School students. Coell launched a new interactive DVD learning resource tool during the Planning 10 class. The tool, the first of its kind in Canada, was created in partnership with the CMSF and in consultation with Ministry of Education.

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Dr. Gary Birch, executive director of the Neil Squire Society (foreground), Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell (centre) and Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee study the pictures of recent graduates from the society's Job Focus program. The program is funded by the Province and provides planning and employment services for people with physical disabilities to help them reach their employment or volunteer goals. The society has three centres in British Columbia, with its western regional head office in Burnaby.

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From left, Ron Burnett, president of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design; Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, David Dolphin, CEO of the B.C. Innovation Council and George Pedersen, board chair of Emily Carr attend the grand opening of the school’s Intersections Digital Studios. The studios are a state-of-the-art facility supported by a $1.4 million grant from the provincial government that will take research and experiments at Emily Carr to a new level in all areas of art, design and media production.

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Premier Gordon Campbell announces provincial funding of $21.6 million to restore a building that will house a new Trades and Technology Learning Centre for the University College of the Fraser Valley, which will anchor the one-of-a-kind Canada Education Park. The Province is providing another $7.6 million to buy the land. Gathered to celebrate, from left: Chilliwack-Sumas MLA John Les; Chilliwack-Kent MLA Barry Penner; Dr. H. A. Skip Bassford, president of UCFV; Thomas Heemskerk, a student at Chilliwack senior secondary school; Gwen Point, a UCFV professor who performed the Sto:lo welcoming song; and Clint Hames, mayor of Chilliwack.

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Premier Gordon Campbell, Chilliwack-Sumas MLA John Les and Chilliwack-Kent MLA Barry Penner stand on the site of the trades and technology building. They watched a demonstration of UCFV apprentices showing off their carpentry and electrical skills. The expanded space will accommodate twice as many UCFV students at the Chilliwack campus.

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