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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
On Thursday May 21, Dr. Marie Wilson, Commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, will be participating in the Pleasant Park Public School and Rideau High School's 3rd Annual Aboriginal Lecture Series. Dr. Wilson's talk is titled “The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Role We Can All Play in... More
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
On Tuesday April 28, from 3:30 - 4:30pm, Dr. Frances Abele will be presenting a workshop under the theme"Tunnganarniq: Designing Programs to Maximize Student Engagement" at the NS@30 conference that is taking place at the Hilton Lac-Leamy hotel in Gatineau-Ottawa, from April 27 - 29. The NS@30 conference, hosted by Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS), is a... More
Monday, March 30, 2015
On April 1, 2015, from 12noon - 1pm, Dr. Frances Abele will be introducing the new graduate program in Indigenous Policy and Administration at Carleton University. This presentation will take place at 10 Wellington Gatineau, Boardroom 2103 / 21st floor. Dr. Abele will also talk about social and institutional changes in Indigenous people’s... More
Monday, March 23, 2015
The Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments has awarded Joshua Gladstone, a 3ci Research Assistant, with a 2015 Nasivvik Strategic Grant! The Nasivvik Strategic Grants Initiative supports the development, conduction and completion of research projects, the communication and publication of research results, and the creation of... More
Thursday, March 12, 2015
"In Canada, which has some four million square kilometres of permafrost, an area 100 times larger than Switzerland, the changes caused by subsurface thaw are sometimes more subtle and shrouded, yet much more transformative. Unlike shrinking glaciers and ice caps, permafrost degradation is not easy to observe. But when Arctic and Subarctic ground... More
Shadow of a Giant is an interactive web documentary that tells the story of one Canada’s largest environmental disasters, Yellowknife’s Giant Mine. Buried in collapsing chambers, within the municipal boundary of Yellowknife, and beside the 9th largest lake in the world, sits 237,000 tons of the highly toxic contaminant, arsenic trioxide, a... More
Friday, January 9, 2015
The Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) is an independent, nonprofit research and education facility located 23 km from the town of Churchill, Manitoba along the shore of historic Hudson Bay. The CNSC facilitates scientific research and educational programming in the physical, biological and social sciences through logistical support to... More
Monday, January 5, 2015
Joshua Gladstone, a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and co-founder of Northern Public Affairs, was recently featured in the Globe and Mail regarding northern Canada's food security crisis. According to Gladstone, "Research has shown that 70 per cent of Inuit preschoolers live in... More
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Nunavut at 15 is a conference focused solely on Nunavut and its accomplishments, failures, and challenges. Coming to Ottawa, Ontario's Southway Hotel February 4-5, 2015, the conference will feature prominent speakers such as the Hon. Tom Siddon, P.C., Ph.D., LL.D., Minister of Indian Affairs & Northern Development (1990-1993) and the Hon.... More
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
While climate change may still seem hypothetical in some parts of Canada, in the North it's already charting a new course for the environment, the economy and people's lives and livelihoods. Is there a path to sustainable economic development that will satisfy the many and varied stakeholders there? Dr. Frances Abele speaks with Steve Paikin... More
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Through the Digital Skills Youth Internship program HUB Ottawa is hiring a Digital and Administrative Coordinator. If you know a young candidate that is a WordPress expert, enjoys creating fun and compelling content for social media, is detail oriented, able to multitask, manage multiple priorities, and meets the Digital Skills Youth Internship... More
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
The School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University is developing two new and unique graduate programs in Indigenous Policy and Administration: a concentration in the School’s Master of Arts in Public Administration, or a Graduate Diploma. The Master of Arts in Public Administration at Carleton is a fifteen course program that... More
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