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Canada’s First Indigenous Protected Area Conserves Valuable Headwaters – Water Canada
October 17, 2018 Last week, Dehcho First Nations and the Government of Canada announced the first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Canada, the Edéhzhíe Protected Area. The Dehcho First Nations Assembly designated the Edéhzhíe Protected Area will protect water, conserve biodiversity and wildlife habitat, and ensure that the Dehcho Dene relationship with the lands of […]
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A glance at recreational cannabis rules, retail across Canada – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 17, 2018 By Armina Ligaya THE CANADIAN PRESS Recreational cannabis became legal across Canada on Wednesday, making it one of the few countries around the world to have a commercial market for weed. All provinces and territories will have online sales available, but the number of brick-and-mortar stores and regulations differ between […]
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Prep Business Report – CP
Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire Oct 17, 2018 Canada’s main stock index posted its best day in six months yesterday, despite a pullback on cannabis stocks ahead of today’s legalization of recreational pot. Toronto’s S-and-P / T-S-X index gained 170 points, to close at 15,579. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 547 […]
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Northern territories to allow communities to block opening of cannabis stores – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Oct 16, 2018 By Bob Weber THE CANADIAN PRESS Northern communities will be allowed to prevent retail cannabis stores from opening even after the drug becomes legal on Wednesday. Legislation in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon gives towns the option of voting to block cannabis stores within their boundaries. “If there is […]
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GNWT plan for limited airlift to western Nunavut prompts calls for Hercules – Nunatsiaq News
October 16, 2018 “We’re not going to bring in the large vehicles” CAMBRIDGE BAY—Cambridge Bay residents reacted with anger and disbelief when they learned last night that large vehicles and other items on board a barge stranded in Inuvik will not be airlifted to their community. At a meeting with John Vandenberg, assistant deputy minister […]
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Nunavummiut speak out about Iqaluit mayor’s controversial statement on Inuit leaders – CBC
Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq says he will review government’s harassment policy Oct 16, 2018 Sexual harassment and how to talk about it has been a topic of conversation both on and off social media in Nunavut over the last week. The conversation was sparked by Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern’s comments to a House of Commons […]
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All-season road to N.W.T.’s proposed Prairie Creek Mine approved – CBC
Company plans to begin construction next winter Oct 16, 2018 A company working on opening the N.W.T.’s next mine is hoping to begin construction of a 180-kilometre all-season road to it next winter. The federal government gave its final approval to the road to the Prairie Creek mine — an advanced-stage zinc, lead, and silver […]
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Musicians of the Midnight Sun: Angus Beaulieu – CBC
Master Métis fiddler recalls playing his first dance Oct 16, 2018 Musicians of the Midnight Sun is a new 10-part CBC radio series produced by Northern musical icon Pat Braden. Braden has spent 15 years collecting interviews, photographs, and recordings from some of the North’s most celebrated artists, which he is releasing in an online […]
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Feds give nod to expansion plan for western Nunavut gold mine – Nunatsiaq News
October 15, 2018 But “high levels of Inuit employment” sought at TMAC Resources’ Madrid-Boston project CAMBRIDGE BAY—The planned expansion for TMAC Resources Inc.‘s gold mine near Cambridge Bay has cleared one of its final hurdles. On Friday, Caroline Bennett, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, and Dominic LeBlanc, minister of intergovernmental and northern affairs and internal trade, […]
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Nunavut still lagging in educational attainment: StatCan – Nunatsiaq.com
October 15, 2018 Territory had the highest proportion of adults in 2016 with no high school diploma Nunavut still has a long way to go to bring its educational attainment close to national levels or even to those in the Northwest Territories. This is revealed by a recent set of Statistics Canada tables that compare […]
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