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Funding provides essential skills, training to Downtown Eastside workers
September 19, 2020
Up to 26 people living and working in the Downtown Eastside will gain new training to enhance their skills as recycling workers, thanks to new funding from the Government of British Columbia. Binners’ Project will receive over $115,000 from WorkBC’s …
Why some of Canada’s richest millennials want to pay more taxes
September 16, 2020
Many people wish for lower tax bills and more money in their bank accounts. But a group of young, rich Canadians want the federal government to tax them more. About 200 wealthy people aged 18 to 40 belong to Resource …
Nicole McDonald joins MakeWay as Director of National Programming and first Indigenous Director
September 16, 2020
September 16, 2020 For Immediate Release Algonquin Anishinabe Nation / Ottawa, ON –Nicole McDonald will lead MakeWay’s national program strategy, connecting efforts across existing MakeWay programs in the Pacific, the North, and Manitoba, and pursuing emerging opportunities for MakeWay to …
N.W.T. film kicks off Canada-wide, pandemic-themed documentary series
August 24, 2020
In a remote camp in the Northwest territories, Melaw Nakehk’o documented her family passing time in isolation while the territory was in lockdown mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nakehk’o is an activist and Dene/Dënesųłiné artist, originally from Fort Simpson, …