TEDxCalgary – Donna Kennedy Glans – Volunteering: The Next Generation
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Alberta tops all of U.S. in June job creation
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011By: Gary Lamphier Just how awful was Friday’s bleak U.S. jobs report? Let us count the ways: Alberta created more new jobs in June (22,000) than all 50 U.S. states combined (18,000), even though the U.S. population is 85 times larger than Alberta’s; The shockingly weak U.S. jobs tally was more than 80 per cent [...]
Auditor general finds a decade of failure in delivering basics to First Nations Read it on Global News: Auditor general finds a decade of failure in delivering basics to First Nations
Thursday, June 9th, 2011OTTAWA – The federal government has failed, time and time again, to take measures that would improve the quality of life for First Nations, says the auditor general in a new report. The basics of life – education, child welfare, clean drinking water and adequate housing – are persistently and dramatically substandard, and in some [...]
Plans for Harper’s native summit begin to take shape
Friday, June 3rd, 2011By: Heather Scoffield An agenda for a first nations summit with the prime minister is beginning to take on solid form. After years of waiting for a formal process to replace the failed Kelowna Accord for fixing native poverty, the Assembly of First Nations says it is now receiving signals from the new Conservative government [...]