Some thought it a publicity stunt for her novel; for most, suspicion fell on her husband, Colonel Archie Christie, a dazzling First World War fighter pilot turned provincial bore, and a man who seems to have been more interested in golf than his wife.
At Lac La Biche, Bryan Davidson, a pilot with the provincial fire service, was geared up and waiting beside his helicopter.
The project has several 'givens.' First, it is not a feasibility study or a pilot project; the provincial government has committed to putting a full-day early learning program in place.
Such input was deemed justified because of the ability to systematically relay the lessons learned in this pilot setting to the provincial and national levels and to share the experience with other district executive teams.
These positive findings from this provincial-level pilot indicate that scale up of the current system is warranted, and that the level of funding per facility could also be increased, as absorptive capacity was high and HFCs had constructive ideas on how extra funds could be utilized.
Firstly, it appears that in some cases the thinking of provincial staff implementing pilot activities has been dominated by achieving the tangible output, in accordance with a specified implementation schedule; whereas the depth of lesson-learning, not the speed of implementation, should be the criterion of success.
Combined with expanded use of rapid tests for confirmatory HIV testing at district facilities (instead of provincial facilities), the pilot aims to facilitate early uptake of HIV testing and ART and retain people across the care cascade in those hard-to-reach remote areas.
Nine pilot projects, jointly funded by the provincial government and a private philanthropic foundation, had been created in New Brunswick that co-located 0- to 4-year-old childcare within public schools.
We conducted a pilot study [ 39] in each provincial region to test questionnaires and to determine a working definition of pesticide exposure to distinguish between environmental (which includes bystander and incidental) and more intensive exposure.
A preliminary pilot audit of adult spine subspecialty provincial data (CritiCall Ontario, fiscal years 2004 through 2009) was performed by two members of the research team (AJY, MGF).
