Exploring Theme: "Individual Business Issues"

Woman suing former employer in proposed class action after a 27-year career CBC Indigenous: If Yvette Zentner could turn back time, the career public servant would give her younger self one piece of advice: “Don’t apply at IOGC.” That’s a reference to Indian Oil and Gas Canada, an Alberta-based federal agency that oversees fossil fuel...

Rural, remote Indigenous communities face unique obstacles and need adapted solutions. Illustration by Nay Drew / Indigenous Clean Energy Charge Up program  Canada’s National Observer: Paving the way to an Indigenous electric highway in Canada offers opportunities, but also includes navigating communities’ unique needs and potential obstacles, especially in rural and remote areas, experts say. ...

Some leaders say open-net fish farms are depleting wild salmon stocks. APTN News: A group of First Nations from British Columbia is calling on the Trudeau government to make good on its commitment to phase out open-net salmon farmsby 2025. Chiefs from across the province are in Ottawa for meetings with federal officials, including Fisheries Minister...

The Globe and Mail: Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands area is a key migration route for wild salmon where narrow passages bring migrating juvenile salmon into close...

NationTalk: Iqaluit, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) welcomes the decision of the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, on behalf of responsible ministers, on the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s (NIRB) Reconsideration Report on Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation’s (Baffinland) Mary River Project Phase 2 Proposal issued on May 13, 2022 (the “Report”). The NIRB determined...