September,  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.
 

NEWLY COMPLETED

  • Terry Forth delivered a two day planning and Board Roles workshop for the Nunavut Implementation Training Committee, an event that marked a return to Consilium's ancient past: the company's first ever contract was the Nunavut Implementation Training Study, done for NITC nine years ago in 1993.

     

  • Terry Rudden and Robert Higgins returned to Rankin Inlet to facilitate a strategic planning session for the Board of Kivalliq Partners in Development, the organization delivering a range of training and business development programs for Inuit in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. The workshop schedule allowed for a half-day side trip to Marble Island, where both Robert and Terry dutifully destroyed the knees of their pants crawling up the beach, as custom requires.

NEW PEOPLE

  • We're pleased to be working this month on a number of new projects with associate Francine Whiteduck, a leading consultant on Aboriginal affairs. Joint projects will include an evaluation of the national Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centres Program, and the development of a series of case studies on the Aboriginal Human Resource Development strategy.

  • Another old friend returned to the fold last month, as associate Ian Creery, working with Malachi Arreak, facilitated a major visioning session for the Department of Justice, Government of Nunavut.
     

NEW PROJECTS

  • Terry Rudden is preparing a review of broadcasting policy for the Department of Canadian Heritage. The study will examine the policy foundations of public and Aboriginal broadcasting in Canada.
     


Rachel Tom Tom, Elder & Teacher, Selkirk First Nation, Yukon
  • The Aboriginal Language Initiative evaluation team, headed by Greg Smith, has completed the first draft of their report after three months of travel and research across the country.


Philomena Pagaduan, Cultural Prorams Supervisor, Duncan, B.C.

  • Fred, Ron, Patti and other members of their project team will spend most of September on the road carrying out community consultations and research in Northern Ontario. Consilium and McLeod Farley and Associates are assisting 11 communities in the Mushkegowuk region in the preparation of community and regional economic plans, and community and regional human resource plans.
     
    Docks at Moosoonee, Ontario


Cree Village Eco-Lodge
Moose River, Moose Factory, Ontario

NEW GOSSIP

  • The Weihses spent a glorious two weeks without cell phones or laptops at a cottage in the first two weeks of August near Wilno, Ontario. Wilno was the first Polish settlement in Canada, and today the older inhabitants still speak Polish as their first language. After finding that the local chip wagon not only sold french fries, but also homemade polish sauerkraut and pickled eggs, perfect accompaniments to fresh-caught fish, it was obvious that this was the place to be in summer.

From Left Leah Weihs, Leah's friend and Fred Weihs
 

  • While on holidays, Fred celebrated his birthday (a birthday which he shares with Melanie Griffith, Robert Shaw and Whitney Houston. Hmmm.)
  • In other holiday news, a Consilium partner spent a week diving in Morehead City, North Carolina, the Mecca of north American wreck divers. Highlights were the wreck of the U-352, a German submarine sunk in 1942, and a trio of large and curious sand-tiger sharks that accompanied them throughout their dive of the Caribsea. You'll be able to guess which partner when you see him walking: he injudiciously smashed his foot with a scuba tank during the week.

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