Our newsletter 10 November 2021: Our next online Outreach session We’ll take a look at progress on LNG projects in our next Outreach session, on Wednesday Nov. 24. It will start 15 minutes earlier than past sessions, and will run from 11:45am to 1pm PST. We’ll post details on our social-media pages when we have …
Sounds like it’s still a man’s world out there, or at least still a world with too many barriers to employment for women in the LNG and pipeline sector. In our Nov. 3 Outreach session online, our online speakers opened by listing such barriers: Paula Smith, program facilitator, Your Place training: “(Among) the issues that …
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 …
Policies hamper the Indigenous right to say ‘yes’ to projects Ken Coates, professor, commentator, senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and friend of our Alliance, supports the right of Indigenous peoples to approve resource projects, and to be prime players in them. But, he argues, government policies aimed at reinforcing Indigenous rights to consultation “are …
Call it what you will: energy problem, energy shortage, energy crunch, energy crisis. Media and social media have called it all of the above in ever-scarier headlines. Just be grateful you don’t live in a country that is badly affected, with the UK, the European Market, India and China prominent among them. Now add in …
