Guest column: Canada needs to set a new course with energy and minerals
This article appeared as a guest column in the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper A commentary by the CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. She is an elected councillor of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a former elected chief. By KAREN OGEN-TOEWS For a while, we thought Ottawa might be beginning to understand the…
Transcript: Kim Baird podcast interview posted 11 March 2022
Here is a condensed transcript of the Kim Baird podcast of March 11, 2022. It has been edited to remove verbal stumbles, repetitions, and the usual so-called fillers: “ums, ahs, and ers” and the like. Host Stewart Muir: Welcome to the Leadership Success podcast, voices and views about British Columbia First Nations’ opportunities in the…
Outreach session: First Nations environmental input
Our online Outreach session on 23 Feb. 2022 looked at First Nations monitoring and input on the environmental impact of LNG, pipeline, and resource development. The speakers: Candice Wilson, environmental manager, Haisla Nation Council, Desiree Bolton, Wai Wah environmental, Kitselas Nation, Elizabeth MacDonald of Insight Resources (which trains environmental monitors), and Ken Howes, director, major…
Next Outreach session, Feb. 23, environmental monitoring
Do join us Wednesday Feb. 23 as experts discuss how First Nations, and others, monitor the environmental impact of LNG and associated pipeline developments. The session will run from 11:45am to 1pm PST, and you can register here: https://bit.ly/3oAaXe4 Check out our panelists, in the poster below. . . . Our last Outreach session, on…
Outreach: Starting your own Indigenous business
How do you get started as an Indigenous entrepreneur? How do you fund and start your own business? Our online Outreach session on 26 January 2022 looked into this, with some First Nations experts: Mark Dokis of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association Sammy Zoerb, business development manager, Indigenous Young Entrepreneurs at Futurpreneur Canada Jennifer…