Grant-in-Aid program recipients for 2008.
The Grant-in-Aid committee received 19 applications in 2008 and awarded grants of $1000 to ten students. The committee congratulates the successful applicants, whose names and research topics are as follows: * Beatrix Arendt, University of Virginia, is conducting excavations at a mid-18th-century Inuit sod house village in...

Federal officials visit KLRS.
Patrick Borbey, a member of AINA's Board of Directors and Assistant Deputy Minister of the Northern Affairs program of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), visited the Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) at the end of May. He was accompanied by Danielle Labonte, director general of INAC's Northern Strategic...

In the North, for the North, by the North: the extraordinary vision of Aron Senkpiel for the betterment of the North through education.
Introduction In June 2002, Yukon College awarded Aron Senkpiel, dean of its Arts and Science Division, an Honorary Diploma of Northern Studies. It was entirely fitting that Yukon College should award him that particular diploma because without his vision and tenacity, love and care, it would not...

RBC announces 2008 Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients.
12 North American organizations to share more than $1.7 million TORONTO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RBC today announced its latest round of RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Twelve organizations, selected from 206 applicants from across North America, will share more than $1.7 million in grants...

New AINA research associates.
Two new research associates have recently joined the ranks of AINA. Mr. William Semple is currently a senior researcher in the Housing Technology Group at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. He has been involved in a number of innovative aboriginal housing projects aimed at improving the environmental and cultural...

Canada's north grew this year's crop of achievers.
OTTAWA The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation has announced the recipients of this year's National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, and the people from Canada's north seemed to receive the lion's share. Included among them is this year's community development award recipient Judy Gingell. She hails from the...

Hot dog! Jamaica's new, cool runnings.
COULD TROPICAL Ocho Rios, Jamaica, soon be reminding people of the Yukon of Jack London fame? It might be, once local tour operator Chukka Caribbean Adventures' latest project gets off the ground. Later this year, the company plans to begin offering dogsled tours to visitors traditionally drawn to Jamaica's...

Kimber announces elections to the board; appointment of chairman.
VANCOUVER, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kimber Resources Inc. Election of Directors Kimber is pleased to report that on December 12th, 2006 at the Company's Annual General Meeting, Dr. Leanne Baker, Dr. Keith Barron and Mr. Stephen Quin were elected to the board of directors. ...

Trans Canada Trail; the 18,000 kilometre dream, 2d ed.
0973782315 Trans Canada Trail; the 18,000 kilometre dream, 2d ed. Bliss, Michael et al. Photographs by John De Visser and Sherman Hines. Trans Canada Trail Foundation 2006 168 pages $44.95 Hardcover F1017 ...

Foreign-born account for 66% of all reported TB cases.
OTTAWA -- In 2002, TB among foreign-bum individuals accounted for 66% of all reported cases in Canada, according to a preliminary report of the Canadian Tuberculosis Reporting System. Canadian-born non-Aboriginal and Canadian-born Aboriginal cases made up 16% and 15% respectively of the reported cases. Birthplace was unknown...