Mining investment shrinks in Nunavut: NRCan – Nunatsiaq News
January 22, 2015 “These continue to be challenging times for funding exploration and mining projects” Mining companies spent less on exploration in Nunavut in 2014 than the previous year, according…
$1M in grants announced in Timmins at symposium – Timmins Press
January 22, 2015 TIMMINS – Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Zimmer came to Timmins Thursday bearing gifts. Zimmer, who was a guest speaker at the Aboriginal Energy Symposium at Cedar Meadows, handed…
And then there were three: Nunavut byelection candidate disqualified – Nunatsiaq News
Sandy Kautuq says he missed a deadline for employment leave Sandy Kautuq, a candidate in the upcoming Uqqummiut byelection, says he has been kicked out of the race on a…
Aboriginal Affairs staff needed a meeting so badly that they offered … – National Post
January 21, 2015 OTTAWA — Aboriginal Affairs kiboshed a proposed meeting of all its Ontario staff, who offered to bake their own snacks, gather in a public library and cram…
Canada Council announces major restructuring of grants programs – The Province
January 21, 2015 The Canada Council has announced it is beginning “an ambitious project to reconfigure and modernize” its grant programs, which help fund Canadian artists and arts organizations. In…
Ring of Fire bogged down in bickering – Timmins Press
TIMMINS – The much vaunted Ring Of Fire mining development is bogged down in bureaucratic studies along with bickering over where to build a new road, or rail link, to what is…
Commentary: Court strikes down Yukon’s Peel watershed land use plan – Lawson Lundell
On December 2, 2014, the Yukon Supreme Court struck down the Yukon government’s Peel watershed regional land use plan because of the government’s failure to follow the process for developing…
Canada’s US$2.2 billion Lower Mattagami hydroelectric project provides power… – HydroWorld
Total capacity has increased from 486 MW to 924 MW at four fully operational redeveloped hydroelectric projects on the Mattagami River, according to Ontario Power Generation (OPG), thanks to the…
Aboriginal word on stop signs in Kamloops stopped by BC legislation – PG Citizen
January 21, 2015 KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A proposal by a councillor in Kamloops, B.C., to add the Secwepemc language to some of the city’s traffic signs has been stopped in…
Global mining sector ended 2014 on a disappointing note: report – Mining.com
January 21, 2015 Despite global mining activity showing steady signs of improvement last year, 2014 ended largely on a disappointing note for the exploration sector, the latest study by SNL Metals &…
