Deaths of 4 people on Sask. farm confirmed as murder-suicide
The deaths of four people on a farm near the Saskatchewan village of Neudorf have been confirmed a murder-suicide.
Google Canada will allocate $2.7 million toward grants helping Indigenous Peoples prepare for tech jobs and teaching media literacy to underrepresented communities.
The U.S. tech giant says more than $1.3 million will be given to Winnipeg professional development and training charity ComIT to close the skills and education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations by preparing Indigenous workers for new careers in the tech space.
The money will be spent on ComIT's Recoding Futures program, which teaches Indigenous Peoples programing languages and software including Design Thinking, HTML, CSS, Javascript .NET, Python, React and Node.
Google will also give $670,000 to Ottawa-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics organization Actua to expand a program teaching youth from vulnerable groups how to be safe online and detect misinformation.
Actua's program will aim to serve youth from under-resourced communities and groups who are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math, including girls and young women, youth with intersecting identities, racialized youth, Indigenous youth and youth from low-income families.
The deaths of four people on a farm near the Saskatchewan village of Neudorf have been confirmed a murder-suicide.
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