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Candy Palmater is a Canadian comedian, international speaker and the educator of aboriginal perceptions training about the Mi'kmaq people. She is active in Native rights and gay rights, and is now the creator and writer of her own national TV show for APTN, ''The Candy Show''. She describes the show as being “Oprah meets David Letterman sprinkled with Candy”.〔Angelina Chapin, (Sweet, hard-earned success for Candy Palmater ). ''Xtra!'', April 21, 2008.〕 Palmater was born in 1968 in Point La Nim, New Brunswick,〔("Candy Palmater's got ambition to burn" ). ''Xtra!'', October 28, 2008.〕 and grew up the youngest of seven children. She attended Dalhousie Regional High School, where she was active in sports.〔Daniel N. Paul, ("Attitude of young gives hope for non-racist future" ). ''Halifax Herald'', July 23, 1999.〕 She currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia. == Education == After high school, she attended Fredericton's St. Thomas University and then completed a legal secretary's course at Maritime Business College.〔 She was inspired by the legal failures of Donald Marshall Jr. and in 1996, she went to Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia, to study Law at Schulich School of Law, where she graduated in 1999 as the valedictorian of her class. She was the first Aboriginal law student in Canada to be valedictorian of her graduating class, and was president of the Dalhousie Aboriginal Law Students Association. She got a job with the now defunct Law firm Patterson Palmer Hunt Murphy, but soon realized she didn’t want to practice corporate law,〔 and subsequently left her job and began working for the Nova Scotia Department of Education. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Candy Palmater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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