Canadore College has 2 nominees for this year’s Premier’s Awards which will be handed out in Toronto on November 26th.

They include Ernest Matton, Elder Little Brown Bear.

He is the manager of Indigenous culture and the Aboriginal healing program at the Michael Garron Hospital-Toronto East Health Network.

He has developed a holistic model to treating addiction and mental health issues by blending Indigenous teachings and ceremonies with mainstream Western practices.

He has already received the Governor General of Canada’s Sovereign Medal for Outstanding Indigenous Leadership, an investiture into the Order of Ontario, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Difference Maker Award, and the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation’s Barb Robinson Indigenous Excellence Award.

Also nominated is Jessica Vander Kooij a graduate of Canadore’s television and video production program.

She is executive producer, series producer of Property Brothers.

She has been assistant director for The Juno Awards broadcast with superstar rapper Drake before taking on her current role at Cineflix Media with the award-winning reality television series featuring brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott.

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