2017 Report: Seafood Farming in Canada is Diverse, Sustainable & Growing
Press Release Increased Revenue, High Value Jobs & Indigenous Participation OTTAWA, Nov. 22, 2017 – Canada’s seafood farmers produced a solid year of sustainable growth and new jobs in 2016…
OTC: Vital Signs report uses Reconciliation Saskatoon model of community building
Press Release November 20, 2017 The Office of the Treaty Commissioner welcomes the release of the Saskatoon Community Foundation Vital Signs 2017. The annual report shows a snapshot of data on…
CMHC: Housing need stable in Canada, 1.7 million Canadian households affected
Press Release OTTAWA, November 15, 2017 — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Statistics Canada, are releasing the core housing need figures from the 2016 Census. In 2016, the rate of core…
BCUC Delivers Final Site C Inquiry Report to Provincial Government and the Public
Press Release November 1, 2017 Vancouver – The British Columbia Utilities Commission has completed its inquiry examining the impact on BC Hydro ratepayers associated with continuing, suspending or terminating the…
ECO: Good Choices, Bad Choices: Environmental Rights and Environmental Protection in Ontario
Press Release On October 24, 2017, the Environmental Commissioner released her 2017 Environmental Protection Report, entitled Good Choices, Bad Choices: Environmental Rights and Environmental Protection in Ontario, to the Ontario Legislature.…
New Report – UN Body Urges Mining Companies To Put Safety First
Press Release October 23, 2017 (London-Washington-Ottawa). An international coalition of non-governmental organizations welcomes the new Assessment Report Summary released last week in Geneva by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which urges States and…
Publication: Employment Equity in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada-Annual Report 2016–17
Press Release Introduction This annual report on employment equity in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada outlines the state of employment equity representation for the 2016–17 fiscal year.…
NAFA: Are All Forest Certification Systems Equal?
Press Release 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…
Collaborative Consent and British Columbia’s Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance
Press Release 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…
BC Treaty Commission: Modern treaties benefit regional economies and advance shared prosperity
Press Release 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,…
