Word: alberta
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Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...
...opportunity to be a key guy for us.” Although conventional wisdom would point to Tobe—a senior with the most experience—as the favorite, he will be challenged by freshman Kyle Richter, of Calgary, Alb. Richter played in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, where he set a record for minutes played in a season and also competed on the league All-Star Team. Both coach and teammates are already singing Richter’s praises. “Kyle has a chance to be a big-time goaltender and has a chance...
...International Crisis Group (ICG), an NGO that aims to help prevent conflict. At the same time, says Baldo, "you feel that China wants to be seen in a positive light. They play a very delicate balancing act." Jiang Wenran, Director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada, says Sudan is the focus of debate amongst China's foreign-policy élite. Progressives argue that Beijing should cut its ties with Khartoum, both because it's the right thing to do and because China's oil interests in Sudan are not worth the cost of the country being...
...plan—it’s about coming together in our mission of sisterhood,” Alford said. Alford’s words about outreach set the stage for two of the night’s most hotly contested races. The chair of ABHW’s Alberta V. Scott Scholar Program, a mentoring program currently operated in conjunction with the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School that could undergo a critical restructuring in the next 12 months, went to Abimbola O. Orisamolu ’08 in a four-woman race. With a large ABHW alumni weekend planned...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA'S SOLUTION? Health and Wellness says it is adding facilities and staff to its system but can't continue to do so at the current rate indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry...