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Found family: Teamwork and camaraderie in firefighting

Anyone trapped in a burning building would want Larisa Staub to be one of the firefighters on the call.

Maybe it comes from her experience of being part of...

Overcoming challenges to academic success

Comfort matters to Hannah Tataryn, new graduate of Lakeland College’s interior design technology class and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Academic Medal for...

Future teachers learn about flexibility on international trip

A group of Lakeland College university transfer students took their education far beyond the classroom – all the way down to Ensenada, Mexico.

The five students involved...

Laddering up: Power engineer earns 3rd class in just 11 months

Alexander Deschamps was a 4th class power engineer with 10 years of experience in the oil and gas industry when he enrolled in the second year of Lakeland College’s

Lakeland instructor’s fifth book explores no-body homicides

When Mark Stobbe isn’t teaching sociology for Lakeland College’s university transfer department, he’s writing and publishing about politics, crimes and the sociology of...