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As faithful readers know, we are resolutely apolitical in this feature. And of course, with an election hovering just around the corner, it’s more important than ever that we retain that neutrality. As a welcome break from the partisan jousting so prevalent in the air these days, we present two purely random January events drawn from Canadian History:
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CONSILIUM, AARLUK and ARDOS... 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.
ONGOING PROJECTS
HAPPY ENDINGS
GOSSIP
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Aarluk
Consulting has begun work with Nunavut Tourism on the
Northwest Passage Legacy Project, as the Project Management
body to help prepare, plan, and coordinate a variety of stakeholders
that will wish to participate in developing tourism events connected
to the Northwest Passage. The project will be a multi-year undertaking
that aims to create benefits at the community level, territorial
level, and through inter-jurisdictional/National opportunities
to develop tourism in Nunavut, new products and foster awareness
of issues associated to the Northwest Passage and Nunavut. Terry
Forth will lead the project team including Chris
Grosset, Fred Weihs, Terry Rudden, Marla Limousin, Johnnie Ningeongan,
Attima Hadlari, and Judy Rogers (Research
Resolutions & Consulting Ltd.).
For
21 years, Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS) has delivered training
to Inuit youth. Originally developed as a course to train Land
Claims Field Workers, the Program has evolved over the last two
decades into a flexible, well-established institution with a wide
range of objectives. Its graduates now work in the private sector,
government, implementation organizations in Nunavut and elsewhere
in Canada; many have or pursued or are currently pursuing ongoing
studies. Terry Rudden will be working with NS
over the next couple of months to develop management and governance
policies. Pictured above: Bobby Misheralak of Coral Harbour
(left) and Jason Sudlovenick of Iqaluit lead the group with drumming
while their classmates perform at the environmental conference
in Montreal.
Elsewhere
in the Northwest Passage, Aarluk’s Chris Grosset
and Marla Limousin continue to work with the
community of Gjoa Haven on the redevelopment of the Northwest
Passage Trail interpretive signage program. In October
and November the grade 12 students of Qiqirtaq Ilihakvik High
School participated in the project by contributing a brief story
or a drawing related to the story of Inuit encounters with Roald
Amundsen and his crew’ during their two year stay in Gjoa Haven
from 1903-1905. From the eighteen works submitted by the students,
the school’s art teacher Lee Bird and Aarluk will select up to
five student’s work to incorporate in the final signage design.
The student work selected for the project will be decided in February
2006 and these students will receive an honorarium. Through a
partnership between Aarluk, the high school Spirit Fund, the Department
of Environment and the Department of Education, a party was held
on December 5 th to thank the grade 12 students for their contribution
to the project. 
The
Nunavut Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Cleanup,
beginning in 1996 and continuing until 2013, offers many opportunities
for Inuit employment and the continued and sustained development
of transferable skills that can be used in local communities or
in similar industries such as mining and general construction.
Veteran training designer and planner Doreen Watson-Donald
joined the Consilium team in August to work on the implementation
of NTI’s long-term training plan. Doreen quickly faced ‘baptism
by fire’ with a three and a half week trip traversing over 14,000
kilometres within our fair country (calculated and verified with
the help of Google!), much of which was in Nunavut. Travel to
four DEW Line sites took her to the communities of Cambridge Bay,
Gjoa Haven, Kugaaruk, Hall Beach and Iqaluit, along with stops
at two remote sites south of Gjoa Haven and at Cape Dyer on Baffin
Island. These visits provided the opportunity to meet with Inuit
employees and site contractors to discuss training needs and of
course, never one to back down from a challenge, to sample country
food (yes, raw seal meat and caribou). The days since her return
to the south have been spent developing learning plans, databases,
and various other templates; researching training opportunities
for Inuit employees in areas of Heavy Equipment Operations, Surveying,
Mechanics, Carpentry, Cooking and Management (just to mention
a few); seeking out funding opportunities and developing funding
proposals for training to occur in 2006; developing networks of
training suppliers and educators in the north; and yes, pining
for the next chance to go north again. (Below: old and new
radar at Cape Dyer. Above right, Doreen and supplies at Cape Dyer)
David
Boult, working with Ian Kenney, completed
the last of the community visits as par of consultation process
for the six communities of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in
the Northwest Territories. The purpose of the consultations were
to assist the communities prepare their submissions to public
hearings on the Mackenzie Gas Project. David visited Paulatuk
and Holman Island in early December. Apart from 100 km per hour
freezing winds, a two-day delay in returning home, and sharing
a very small seat with a very large dog all the way to Paulatuk,
David enjoyed his first visit to the two communities. The community
submissions will form part of the overall regional response to
the pipeline project being developed by the Inuvialuit Regional
Corporation. Pictured above is David in Paulatuk. 
We’ve
put together a short brochure outlining some of our most popular
training programs. These include a number of tried and true workshops
such as Roles and Responsibilities of a Board of Directors, Train-the-Trainer,
Media Management, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Proposal
Development, Introduction to Business Writing, Introduction to
Financial Management, Introduction to Planning, Introduction to
Community-based research, and our popular Board Builders series.
You can check out the brochure by clicking on this link: 
While
in Victoria Greg got to visit with godson Kent Brooks
and his brothers Chris and Matt , all from Auckland,
New Zealand. They hold dual N.Z.-Canadian citizenship, and moved
to Vancouver last May to further their musical careers. They are
lead members of the rock group Like a Storm, which
has had several hits and won rock contests in New Zealand. The
group is making serious inroads on the West Coast, and through
contacts with major producers and record companies, will likely
be coming East in the new year to write and record new material.
If there are any rock fans among our readership – watch for this
group to make some inroads in the next couple of years (just Greg’s
unbiased opinion – but you read it here first). 
