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TRU: Research that builds community
September 27, 2017 Thompson Rivers University’s fifth annual report on research, Building Community Through Research, is a showcase of the world-class research taking place here. The report highlights the work of our faculty across all departments, paying special attention to the growing contributions of our researchers and their students in community-driven projects. “This report highlights the outstanding […]
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NAFA: Are All Forest Certification Systems Equal?
INTRODUCTION Forest certification is a private, non-governmental, market-based mechanism voluntarily adopted by a forest company and audited by an independent third party against a set of forest management standards. Certification to these standards results in the company receiving an eco-label that is used on its products to indicate to consumers that the product they are […]
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Number of homeless Aboriginal people, seniors growing in Metro Vancouver: report – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 26, 2017 VANCOUVER _ Final numbers from Metro Vancouver’s latest homeless count show that more Aboriginal people and seniors are living in shelters and on the streets. The report says about one-third of the 3,506 people counted self-identified as being Indigenous or Aboriginal. It says that is the highest proportion represented to […]
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Collaborative Consent and British Columbia’s Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance
New research from POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Collaborative consent provides a powerful way to tackle difficult questions about how Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments can work together to make decisions about water and land use. Canada’s relationships with Indigenous peoples—and the institutions, laws, and policies governing these relationships—remain fraught with […]
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BC Treaty Commission: Modern treaties benefit regional economies and advance shared prosperity
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 20, 2017 — Reconciliation is a priority for all levels of government, and increasingly more at the local and regional level. In British Columbia, treaty negotiations are reconciliation in action. Today the BC Treaty Commission releases its 2017 annual report, Reconciling prosperity: The role of local and regional governments in treaty negotiations. […]
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Métis Nation British Columbia releases report on Métis Youth Programming
August 30, 2017 Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) has released the finding of the “Métis Youth Programming” research project. The “Métis Youth Programming” research was conducted in order to create effective and culturally-relevant employment and education programs for Métis Youth that are delivered to and by MNBC’s Métis Chartered Communities. The “Métis Youth Programming” survey […]
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Salish Sea Marine Survival Project – 2016 Canadian Progress Report
Executive Summary Image (Above): The Sechelt citizen science team. Image (Above): Kristi Miller-Saunders is leading research efforts on salmon disease. Image (Above): A Harbour seal hangs out in Cowichan Bay. In 2009 the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s volunteer board of directors funded a proposal to address the precipitous declines in Coho and Chinook in the Strait […]
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Working Together to End Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls National Scan of RCMP Initiatives May 2017
Introduction The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is committed to the prevention of violence against women. As frontline police officers, we know that Indigenous women are at greater risk of being victimized; because of this, the RCMP Commissioner called for more research on this issue. The resulting 2014 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview, […]
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FNS: Advancing an Indigenous Framework for Consultation and Accommodation in BC – Report
Introduction ONE YEAR (ALMOST TO THE DAY) after the Haida case was decided,1 the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the Mikisew case declared that the concept of reconciliation is the “fundamental objective” of the modern law of Aboriginal and Treaty rights: The fundamental objective of the modern law of aboriginal and treaty rights is […]
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New UNICEF report: Poor health, violence at alarming rates among Canada’s kids
TORONTO, June 15, 2017 – A new UNICEF report released today highlights the challenges that high-income countries like Canada face in meeting global commitments for children. Canada does comparatively well in some aspects of child and youth well-being, but lags farthest behind other countries in concerning indicators of child health and violence. In Oh Canada! […]
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