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On September 6 students from across the city will be heading back to school in a district that looks much different than when the final bell rang in June.

Residents of the North Coast are being invited to help celebrate the life and accomplishments of NDP leader Jack Layton this Saturday.

Over the weekend at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre over 100 representatives from Aboriginal communities across Canada met with the leadership of the United Church of Canada - the country’s largest protestant denomination - for the National Aboriginal Spiritual Gathering, a meeting that happens every three years to provide the church with direction on how it deals with issues that affect the Aboriginal members of its congregation.

Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Iain Black is resigning his seat to take a new job as CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Premier Christy Clark said she is "delighted and saddened" to see the MLA who succeeded her as Port Moody-area MLA leave politics.

A report by the Northwest Transmission Line Labour Market Steering Committee indicates that the region is not ready to reap all the benefits from the line, and that the lack of available skilled workers in the northwest could increase the cost of the projects.

At the August meeting of the Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District, all board members voted in favour of giving themselves a regular pay raise while also unanimously voting to cancel their own health care benefits.

On August 24 Enbridge announced the filing of commercial agreements that will see both the condensate and oil export pipelines of the Northern Gateway Project running at capacity for the long-term should the project get the green light from the Federal Government.

Two federal ministers were in Prince Rupert on Tuesday afternoon to announce a significant investment that will improve safety at the local airport.

On August 22 the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced that the recreational Halibut fishery will be closing at 11:59 p.m. on September 5, and the local director of the BC Wildlife Federation says he is “horrified” by the news.

The B.C. Public School Employers' Association applied to the labour board for a ruling expected by Friday, saying the B.C. Teachers' Federation continues to try to negotiate provincial issues such as class size and staffing ratios at local district bargaining tables.