July, 2002

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CONSILIUM…In this corner of our site we’ll be posting notes on new people, new projects, and new online materials you may find interesting. Enjoy, and come back often.

NEW PEOPLE

  • Well, he's not exactly a new person - he's actually been a person for quite some time - but we're pleased to announce a prestigious new job for an old friend and associate. Abraham Tagalik has been appointed to the position of Assistant Deputy Minister of Health for the Government of Nunavut. Congratulations, Mr. T...

NEWLY COMPLETED

  • Dave Boult and Terry Rudden, working with addiction counsellors and consultants Jackie Rai and Virginia Carver, have completed the design of a first stage addictions treatment program for Inuit in the Ottawa area. The program will be delivered by Tungasuvvingat Inuit, and is scheduled to launch this fall.

  • Shannon Ward and her Nearly All Grrrl Team (including Stephanie Fox of Fox Consulting) have completed an extensive planning exercise with the Beaufort Delta Self Government office. One of the most interesting outcomes of the project was the development of a unique and comprehensive framework for the transfer of federal and territorial government programs to Aboriginal self governments in the MacKenzie Delta.
     

NEW PROJECTS

Children at the Tuktoyaktuk Child Development Centre, where Inuvialuktun instruction is provided thanks to ALI funding.

Colton Gruben, a favourite performer at Tuktoyaktuk's annual talent show for singing his Inuvialuktun vrsion of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.
  • Consilium partners Greg Smith ,Terry Rudden, and associate Dan David traveled across the country in June to evaluate the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI), a $20 million, four-year Department of Canadian Heritage program supporting Aboriginal languages. Consilium will visit ten project sites over the summer. During Greg's site visit to Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in June, he had the opportunity to renew ties with old friends in the Western Arctic. Greg lived in Inuvik for four years in the early 1980's where he worked for Inuvialuit organizations, including three-years as Executive Director of the Inuvialuit Communications Society. Greg also visited the Yukon, where he lived for four years as a young child in the early 1950's while his Air Force father was stationed in Whitehorse. The family log cabin was on the banks of the Yukon River where the territorial government building is now located. The next part of Greg's trip took him to Victoria and Duncan B.C. to meet with representatives of the First Peoples Cultural Foundation and the Cowichan Tribes Cultural Education Centre. Terry Rudden visited sites in Labrador and Nova Scotia, while Dan David traveled to Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Northern Quebec. The ALI evaluation report is due in September.

  • The Return to Rankin.... Terry Rudden and Robert Higgins will be working with Kivalliq Partners in Development later this summer to initiate the organization's strategic planning process

NEW GOSSIP

  • Congratulations to Our Man In Iqaluit, Terry Forth, elected President of the Iqaluit Rotary Club on July 1st for a one year term. The Iqaluit club is one of 56 in Rotary district 7790 which claims eastern Quebec and part of Maine. The district actually includes the three capital cities-- Iqaluit, Quebec and Augusta. In September the Rotary Club of Iqaluit will celebrate 24 years of service to this community! Terry is pictured here at the Royal Iqaluit Golf and Country Club. No, really!

  • And speaking of achievements...on June 9th Consilium, friends and relatives gathered at Pinehurst in Almonte to celebrate the convocation of Consilium associate Dr. Valerie Assinewe (right) , shown here with son Leslie (left)  and an unidentified consultant/husband (centre).

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