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Special Stanley Cup Consilium Trivia Edition

You may have heard that the Ottawa Senators are defending Canada's honour in the upcoming Stanley Cup finals. What you may not know is that Ottawa's first ever Stanley Cup win, in 1903, occurred only one block away from the current offices of Consilium, Aarluk and ARDOS. It was there in Dey's Arena, which once stood at the corner of Gladstone and Bay St., that Ottawa Senators (formerly the Ottawa Silver Seven) defeated the Montreal Victorias before a capacity audience capacity of 3,500. The players were unpaid, the arena was unventilated, and just two weeks later the team had to defend the Cup against the Rat Portage Thistles.

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.

NEW ARRIVALS

Pictured right: Chuck Gilhuly, new general manager for the Consilium Consulting Group, arrives at his new office to begin work (Not exactly as shown)

But seriously, Chuck started work on May 7th, just in time to hit some decent early summer weather and experience Elgin Street during the Stanley Cup semifinals. Reassuring note to his Nunavut friends – he has mastered the stop light thing and seems to be doing fine.

NEW PROJECTS      

Aarluk Consulting will be providing support to Meyers Norris Penney LLP, a consulting firm which has been contracted by the Yukon Territorial Government to conduct an evaluation of Territorial Health Access Funds. Part of the three year evaluation research project will be conducted in Nunavut. Greg Smith is managing Aarluk's participation, and James Arreak will be working with the MNP research team to assist with interviews, surveys and focus groups.

 

 

Chris Grosset and Marla Limousin have begun work for the Government of Nunavut Community Government & Services, and the Municipality of Cambridge Bay, on the Cambridge Bay Community Plan and Zoning By-law. Teaming up with Christopher Straka (planning technician guru), the project involves the preparation of a new zoning and development plan for lands in the community, along with updates to the community zoning by-laws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patti Black and Terry Rudden will be writing and editing the first annual report for the Labrador Inuit Land Claim, due for release in late August. The report will celebrate the early successes of this historic land claim.

ONGOING PROJECTS

ARDOS teams are heading out on the road to deliver a series of workshops to employees of Environment Canada across Canada throughout June. The two day sessions will provide in-depth guidance on consulting Aboriginal communities on Aboriginal issues. Greg Smith heading up the team: the workshop was developed by Patti Black, Terry Rudden, and Tomasz Wlodarczyk of Gartner Lee. The all-star squad of workshop leaders includes Ron Ryan, Valerie Assinewe, Jennifer David and Ian Kenney (qui fera l'animation de l'atelier au Québec et en Français dans la région de la capitale nationale).

 

Chris Grosset and Johnny Ningeongan are making progress with the initial consultations for the Coral Harbour Community Economic Development Plan. Working closely with the Economic Development Committee (Louisa Kudluk - chair, Rhoda Paliak Angootealuk, and Doreen Siutinuar), and Teresa Thompson – CEDO, the team started interviewing and meeting with community residents in May. The next step will be to compile strategic options into a report for discussion with the Committee. While in Coral Harbour, Chris enjoyed a fantastic dinner of arctic char – many thanks to Johnny and his wife Elizabeth. (pictured left: Johnny waiting patiently to personally welcome every visitor to Coral Harbour).

 

And because we know that a month without news on our long-running HRSDC project is no month at all, the mandatory update – fourteen case studies on Aboriginal Human Resource Development Agreements across Canada are now at various stages of completion, under the able direction of Greg Smith and his team of merry evaluationologists.

HAPPY ENDINGS

Ron Ryan facilitated a meeting of Government of Nunavut representatives and resource people gathered in Iqaluit to discuss the development of a Uranium policy for Nunavut. The session included presentations from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, and the Geological Survey of Canada.

 

Shocking birthday errata to confess. Your editor erroneously announced that Jennifer David shared a birthday with Richard Nixon. We were promptly corrected by friend and faithful reader N.G., who noticed the error for the excellent reason that SHE proudly shares a birthday with Richard Nixon on January 9th. Our deepest apologies to Jennifer for having incorrectly associated her with Mr. Nixon. Jen's ACTUAL birthday buddy is, of course, Ghostface Killah, the rapper.

 

GOSSIP

 

 

 

We told you last month that Terry Rudden and his dive buddy/producer friend George Hargrave would be traveling to Belize to try to capture video of whale sharks for their upcoming Dive Belize DVD. Well...they did. Pictured right is one of the five whale sharks they spotted, photographed and videotaped over four days of diving: this one, roughly thirty feet long, was recorded at a depth of about sixty feet off Gladden Split, two and half bumpy, scorching, Gravol-gulping hours by small boat off the coast of Belize.

 

 

 

This month's coveted "Saving Consilium From Vanishing In Flames When Terry's Away and His Room Heater Catches Fire In his Absence and Fills the Office With Smoke" Award (Not exactly as shown) goes to Ryan Lotan.

THIRTY YEARS AGO LAST MONTH....

 

 

We invited you to identify the Consilium shareholder pictured left in an earlier reincarnation – and this one baffled even some Consilium insiders. The answer: our resident gourmet, traveler and bon vivant, David Boult.

 

 

 

 

 

THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH…

That was kind of fun. Let's try one more. Here's another flashback to an age when the Consilium Corporate Group partners and their associates were not quite the sober and responsible pinstriped purveyors of wisdom you've come to know and love. Any guesses who's perched on a boulder in Oahu thirty years ago?

 

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