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Voyageurs women scrimmage with Ambrose in pre-season warmup

The Portage College Voyageurs women’s soccer team played a scrimmage game on August 5 against the Ambrose University Lions. The two teams played at the Bold Centre sports fields in Lac La Biche. The scrimmage was a chance for both squads to gel with new teammates prior to the official start of the 2026/27 Alberta Colleges Athletic [...] Read More... from Voyageurs women scrimmage with Ambrose in…

Strength, Perseverance, and Purpose: A Practical Nurse Graduate’s Story

Family. She did it for her own family. She did it with the support of her family, and she joins a family of thirty eight Portage College graduates who share similar stories of determination, support and success. Cassidy Handel is now a Practical Nurse. The recent graduate from the Portage College program is a proud [...] Read More... from Strength, Perseverance, and Purpose: A Practical Nurse…

Murals, Exhibitions, and Galleries: Portage College Arts Programs Wrap Up a Year of Creativity

From project practicums, murals, exhibitions, and gallery showings, the Arts programs at Portage College have drawn a lot of attention this year. [...] Read More... from Murals, Exhibitions, and Galleries: Portage College Arts Programs Wrap Up a Year of Creativity The post Murals, Exhibitions, and Galleries: Portage College Arts Programs Wrap Up a Year of Creativity appeared first on Portage…

Portage College and Aspen View schools bring Trades to students

Athabasca-based Aspen View Public Schools has partnered with Portage College to offer more students a practical learning pathway to Trades and Technology-focused careers. The new, dual-credit opportunity introduces high school students to a variety of Trades options offered at Portage College. The partnership is possible through discussions between the school division and Portage College senior…

Historic Milestone: Portage College Approved to Offer First Bachelor’s Degree

Portage College is proud to announce a historic milestone in its evolution as a post-secondary institution with the launch of its first-ever bachelor’s degree program, the Bachelor of Education. The approval marks the first time in the College’s history that it has been authorized to grant a bachelor’s degree, representing a significant step forward in [...] Read More... from Historic Milestone:…

Indigenous learning continues to grow at Portage College

June is Indigenous History Month. Fifty years ago, Portage College was operating as Alberta Vocational College, and the course offerings for the 1976-1977 school year included the first appearance of a class that would evolve to become one of the best Indigenous Arts programs in Western Canada. Introduced in that 1976-77 academic year, the Cultural [...] Read More... from Indigenous learning…

Renowned Instructor Teaches at Portage College, Meet Ruby!

Portage College may be small, but there is hidden talent in every corner that has a decorative background and an abundance of experience and connections that positively affect students. Ruby Sweetman is the coordinator of the Indigenous Arts Program at Portage College. Once a student and now a coordinator, Ruby had originally taken the program back in [...] Read More... from Renowned Instructor…

Family connection and Father’s Day gift at Portage College convocation

Father’s Day was on June 21, but Portage College Business Program Coordinator Allan Robertson got a gift earlier in the month as he watched one of his daughters cross the stage at Portage College’s Convocation ceremony on June 4. Merridy Robertson is one of this year’s Early Learning and Child Care Certificate (ELCC) graduates. She [...] Read More... from Family connection and Father’s Day gift at…

Portage College joins Community Futures for “Lemonade University”

If you’re in and around Cold Lake on June 13, Sawyer’s Fresh Lemonade Stand in Willow Crescent, near Kinosoo Beach in Cold Lake North will be serving up lemonade, berry lemonade, chips, chocolate bars and freezies for National Lemonade Day. Across northeast Alberta, throughout the Portage College service area, there are more than 80 lemonade stands [...] Read More... from Portage College joins…

Portage College opens programs to regional students

More than 400 Grade 8 and 9 students from across the Portage College service area in northeast Alberta took over the College’s Lac La Biche campus on Thursday, May 28 for a student education fair. The students from Northern Lights Public Schools attended information sessions on all of the available programming at Portage, took part [...] Read More... from Portage College opens programs to regional…