LIFE?S LESSONS (Categorie: Culture - Education) Jukeepa Hainnu becomes the first Inuit woman on Baffin Island to get her masters of education. While she urges to further education after highschool, she doesn?t want youth in her Baffin Island community to lose touch with their past in preparing for their future. Source: The Guardian (Charlottetown) 12/05/07 View source  MANY ABORIGINAL TONGUES ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION (Categorie: Culture - Education) A report released by Statistics Canada, using 2001 census data, shows aboriginal languages are disappearing but the downward trend is being pushed back by the younger generation learning their grandparents' mother tongues as second languages. Source: The Hamilton Spectator, May 17, 2007 View source 
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