Labrador Iron Mines suspends operations amid falling ore prices, high costs – Mining Life
Labrador Iron Mines suspends operations amid falling ore prices, high costs Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Ltd. says it has suspended all operations at its mines for the year, due to…
Are you a Micromanager? – BiV
Constantly checking in with employees about their day-to-day work. Questioning every detail. Looking over their shoulders. If you feel you must make every decision for your staff members, you might…
Battle over Peel River watershed heads to court – The Globe and Mail
Thomas Berger, a prominent Vancouver lawyer who is an authority on northern development and aboriginal policies, is headed to court on a major case that involves an iconic wilderness area…
Manitoba grants licence for construction of northern dam, puts another on hold – CP
THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG _ Manitoba is giving the green light to the construction of a $6 billion northern hydro dam but putting the brakes on a second $10-billion dam…
Supreme Court land title ruling may affect First Nations financing – The Globe and Mail
A landmark legal decision by the Supreme Court of Canada involving aboriginal title is raising speculation about whether it could affect financing for native groups. A June decision by the…
Half of B.C. residents would say ?No? to Northern Gateway – BiV
Support for the controversial Northern Gateway project has fallen in British Columbia. Almost half of British Columbians (49%) now oppose the project, according to an Insights West poll released July 2. This is up…
Cree film hopes to attract tourists to remote destination – CBC
Nunaaluk was an Inuit community on the Twin and Cape Hope Islands that was abandoned in the 1960’s Cree in the James Bay region of Quebec are hoping a long-forgotten…
Building trust in B.C. aboriginal relations – Globalnews.ca
VICTORIA – An admitted bureaucratic blunder by British Columbia’s government that incensed First Nations at a liquefied natural gas summit called for an immediate “chief-to-chief” meeting to patch things up,…
Canada: Authentically Aboriginal – International Meetings Review
Groups using Vancouver, British Columbia, as meeting destination report attendance increases of five to 15 percent. This popular, multi-cultural, harbourside city is a dynamic business centre set amid old growth forest and…
Crowley appears on BNN to talk labour shortages – MLI
June 30, 2014 MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley spoke with the Business News Network about his concern that Canadians remain far too complacent about a coming tidal wave of labour shortages.…
