The Forge Institute is thrilled with the announcement of Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey as a recipient of the 2021 Governor General’s Innovation Award. Congratulations Chief Leroy Denny, Ms. Blaire Gould, and the whole team! #gginnovation
Some background on Amanda Gorman. At 22, Gorman is the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration.
She is continuing a tradition that includes poets such as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.
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Small businesses mean a lot to the fabric of our community, our quality of life and our pride of place. They contribute so much to what makes this place special. Please, please support the local businesses you know and love, and get to know the ones you don’t. They need us now.
Nunavut just announced 11 new cases of COVID-19 this morning.
With the numbers people see down South, I think it might be hard sometimes to understand how devastating it is for Nunavut to have 153 active cases.
This chart shows how significant this number is proportionally.
This makes Yukon the first territory to pass legislation banning conversion therapy — joining Ontario, N.S. and P.E.I.
It's the first step of many, as one advocate said to me. I'm proud that my first story here in Whitehorse is on such an important topic.
"They slashed the tires. I watched one guy pee in the driver's seat of my truck. Another guy poured a jug of some antifreeze or something down inside my gas tank. Another guy poured a jug of something down the vents in the heaters of my truck."
Know an outstanding innovator who is helping to shape our
society and our future? Nominations are now open for the
Governor General’s Innovation Awards #GGIA2021 Contact us by November 20, 2020 to apply @GGInnovation#Innovation@RideauHallFdn
"We see this time and time again where violence against Indigenous people is not given the same level of care and attention in the Canadian justice system."
With uncertainty and fear hanging over traveling, no one knows how quickly tourism and business travel will recover. We asked seven prominent experts to weigh in:
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