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Young Canada Works in Both Official Languages-bilingual post-secondarystudents; Young Canada Works in National Parks and Historic Sites-students aged 16-18(supervisor positions for those aged 25 and under); Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions-secondary and post-secondarystudents aged 16-30; and Young Canada Works for Aboriginal Urban Youth-secondary and post-secondarystudents and graduates, and unemployed Aboriginal youth under the age of 25.Employers from the private sector, as well as various national and communityorganizations, seeking summer students, may be eligible to participate in YoungCanada Works in Both Official Languages.Contact:Toll-Free: 1 800 935-5555 Fax: (613) 941-5992 Internet: http://www.pch.gc.caWrite: Department of Canadian Heritage15 Eddy Street. 12th Floor Hull, Québec K1A 0M54.0 PROGRAM: NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMThe Northern Distribution Program (NDP) was approved by Treasury Board in 1988to provide financial assistance for the operation of a northern satellite distributionsystem, and to deliver a mixture of northern and aboriginal programming by:promoting and encouraging the development and use of aboriginal languagesthrough modern technological means;providing television programming which reflects and enhances the social,political, economical and cultural life of all northern and native residents; and byproviding educational and informational programming relevant to Northerners.Television Northern Canada (TVNC), an independent, non-profit federallyincorporated organization licensed by the CRTC to operate a northern satellitedistribution system, has been the sole recipient of funding under this program since1988. Federal assistance is in the form of an annual contribution which by 1998-99 willbe for $2.1 million. The Department is negotiating with TVNC a potential transfer of theadministration of the Northern Distribution Program to an Aboriginal broadcasting entity.Also involved in the negotiations are the thirteen Aboriginal broadcasters funded by theNorthern Native Broadcast Access Program (NNBAP), managed by the Native Citizens'Directorate in the Canadian Identity sector. NNBAP has been in existence since 1983,and six of the thirteen NNBAP recipients are members of TVNC. Among the thirteenAboriginal broadcasters receiving funding from NNBAP is Inuit BroadcastingCorporation, the largest and possibly most influential of TVNC's members. It has playeda large role in the development of electronic media for the Inuit of Nunavut, and in thiscapacity, was the first of the aboriginal broadcasters to use videoconferencing for boardPg. 117