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Adapting to Climate Change – Lexpert
Mining companies are starting to learn that climate change will undermine their own operations. Many are working now to save themselves from enormous future costs. COMPANIES WORLDWIDE ARE HAVING to change the way they do business in order to mitigate the effects of climate change on their operations. The mining industry in this country is […]
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New Roads to Riches – Lexpert
In a depressed market for commodities, mining companies will have to rely on government funding, P3s and the ambition of local communities to get their projects off the ground. THE CANADIAN MINING INDUSTRY’S success depends on its capacity to move its output to markets efficiently, at competitive prices and via modern infrastructure such as railways, […]
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Canadian leader tells UN of plight of indigenous people – CP
Source: The Associated Press Sep 21, 2017 The latest on the U.N. General Assembly meeting (all times local): 1:31 p.m. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used his speech at the U.N. General Assembly to talk about the injustices that indigenous people face in his country. Trudeau said Thursday their experience has been one of “humiliation, neglect, […]
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The community’s figuring it out:’ Arctic cruise tourism comes of age – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 21, 2017 By Bob Weber THE CANADIAN PRESS GJOA HAVEN , Nunavut _ Tourists say the darndest things. Just ask Anna Aaluq, who’s waiting on a pebbly beach to guide a group of cruise ship passengers around her hometown of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. “They ask if we still live in caribou-skin tents. […]
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Made-in-Nunavut Corrections Act bill will die with assembly dissolution – NunatsiaqOnline
September 21, 2017 “This assembly has simply run out of time” A made-in-Nunavut Corrections Act bill, meant to replace decades-old legislation grandfathered from the Northwest Territories, will be buried alongside another failed bill amending Nunavut’s Education Act, after MLAs quietly dropped the legislation on the final day of their last sitting before government dissolved for […]
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Nine stories in the news for today, Sept. 21 – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 21, 2017 Nine stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 21 ___ PM TRUDEAU SPEECH TO ADDRESS CANADA’S INDIGENOUS PAST Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends to use his speech to the United Nations General Assembly today to tell a painful story about Canada’s past, the struggles of its Indigenous peoples, and the […]
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Yukon justice minister directs review of jail where mentally ill man segregated – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 20, 2017 By Emily Blake, Whitehorse Star THE CANADIAN PRESS WHITEHORSE _ Yukon’s justice minister plans to direct an independent review of how the Whitehorse Correctional Centre handles mentally ill inmates following a high-profile criminal case alleging excessive use of segregation. Tracy-Anne McPhee’s decision follows the conclusion of Michael Nehass’s criminal case, […]
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Lessons for Canada in New Zealand’s Indigenous friendly electoral system – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 20, 2017 By David MacDonald, Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph THE CANADIAN PRESS This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. ___ Author: David MacDonald, Professor of Political Science, […]
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28 days on the land: Is this the future of addictions treatment in Nunavut? – CBC
Cambridge Bay designs its own mobile treatment program so people can heal closer to home Sep 19, 2017 Kathleen Hogaluk is nervous about what the next 28 days will bring. The 36-year-old single mother of seven from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has struggled with alcohol on and off for years. But it was after her eldest […]
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Delegates ditch Grand Chief George Mackenzie’s swearing-in ceremony – CBC
Charter flights for special events being abused by some people, leaders say Sep 19, 2017 Tlicho leaders say there needs to be clampdown on the abuse of charter flight services shown by some people in their communities. The comments were made after some people who were flown from outlying communities to Behchoko on Friday for […]
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