b'ACTIVE COMMUNITIESKugluktuk GrizzliesA top contender for the most inspiring movie featuring aOne of the films producers, Stacey Aglok MacDonald, By Andrew Brooks Canadian Indigenous community would have to be Theis from Kugluktuk. She was a high school student there Grizzlies, a feature film that premiered in 2018. It tells thejust before the Grizzlies were formed and returned as a story of how lacrosse was introduced to a remote northernsubstitute teacher when the team was up and running. In community, and the tremendous, transformational impactan interview with CBC earlier this year, Aglok MacDonald it had on youth there. described the difference she saw on her return.Kugluktuk is located at the mouth of the Coppermine RiverThey were only two or three years in, but they had in Nunavut. In the 1990s it had the highest teen suicidealready established themselves as an organization, and rate in North America. The Grizzlies tells how a teacherthe students were already very actively involved in the at the high school, Russ Sheppard, brought his love forrunning of the program, Aglok MacDonald said. It lacrosse to the town and got enough youth interested towas such a huge thing to leave home after graduating form a local lacrosse team, which they eventually went onin 2000 and then come back three years later and see to run themselves.that huge shift. You can learn more about the Grizzlies atwww.thegrizzliesmovie.com.An image from the film The Grizzlies depicting the Kugluktuk lacrosse treamThe Leaders in Railway Maintenanceand Construction Services Across CanadaLooking to start or further your career in the rail industry? Take a look at our current job openings: www.remcanprojects.com/careersCOMPETITIVEREWARDINGCUTTING-EDGEPAID COMPENSATION WORK EQUIPMENT TRAININGrmcn-ccab-ad-7x3_vfinal.indd 1 2019-07-17 2:03 PMAboriginal BUSINESS REPORT35PROJECT NAME: rmcn-ccab-ad-7x3_vfinal TRIM: 7 x 3DATE: July 2019 BLEED: NACLIENT: REMCAN Projects MEDIUM: 1/3 Page Ad'