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Someone tried
to tell us that November 8th was both Homer Simpson's Birthday AND
National X-Ray Discovery Day...but we saw right through that. Doh!
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 PARTNERS
NEW NAME
According to the 2004 Balbulican-McGill Study of Adolescent Behaviour in North American, the three most common things Canadians do upon reaching their teens are (a) get a tattoo, (b) get a piercing, or (c) change their name. Given that Consilium turned 13 this year, and since we couldn't get everyone to agree on the tattoos and piercings, our corporate adolescent took the third option. There are too many other plain old Consiliums out there (including an engineering firm in Europe, a pizzeria in Seattle, and this mysterious doorway Dave Boult found in BC). So henceforth, we are officially "The Consilium Consulting Group, Inc." Ain't THAT grand?
ONGOING PROJECTS
HAPPY ENDINGS
GOSSIP
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Greg
Smith and Ron Ryan were in Thunder Bay
last week facilitating a two-day workshop to kick off the development
of a strategic plan for the Nishnawbe-Aski Development Fund (NADF).
Other team members involved are Fred Weihs and
Ryan Lotan. NADF provides a range of economic
development and financial services to its members across northern
Ontario. The strategic plan will be followed by the development
of a three-year business plan for the organization. Pictured
above: the workshop participants outside the Fort William
Commuity Centre, Fort William, Ontario.
"Achieving
Objectives" Land Claims Conference June 27-30, 2006, Hilton
Lac Leamy, Quebec: Conference
planning is well underway, with confirmed keynote speakers Thomas
Berger, currently retained by the federal government
as conciliator in the negotiations to update the implementation
contract for the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement; and Wayne
Bergmann, executive director of the Kimberley Land Council
in Australia, who has significant success in negotiating agreements
between Aboriginal traditional owners of land areas and resource
based companies interested in mining those lands. Conference brochures
and registration forms will be mailed during the first two weeks
of November and also posted on the website. Follow the conference
links at 
More
on the continuing Saga of Chris Grosset's Travels in the Footsteps
(or Wake) of Franklin: Chris Grosset and
Marla Limousin visited Gjoa Haven a week of work
on the Northwest Passage Tail project for Nunavut Territorial
Parks. They completed an inventory of the existing signage along
the trail, the displays at the Hamlet and Heritage Centres, and
other places of interest around the community before meeting with
members of the Community Economic Development Committee to discuss
preliminary options for the re-development of the trail.
Pictured above: Chris at the Amundsen Cairn in Gjoa
Haven.
Three
concepts were developed for the project during the weeklong visit.
The concept that was ultimately selected as the preferred option
by the community and Nancy White from Nunavut Parks will include
interpretive signs at five locations around the community and
a brochure to provide information on six other places of interest
in Gjoa Haven. The focal point of the walking trail will be the
signs created to face the concrete cairn built in 2003 as a monument
in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Amundsen's arrival
in Gjoa Haven. The story told on the interpretive panels will
focus on Roald Amundsen's time at this location during his voyage
through the Northwest Passage, but the story will be told through
the stories and quotes of the communities Elder's and the Inuit
experience of their encounters with arctic explorers. It is hoped
that this approach to the interpretation will bring a unique perspective
and fresh voice to the history of exploration in the north that
will be of interest to visitors and residents alike. Pictured
above: Marla Limousin and Mayor Uriash Puqiqnak of Gjoa
Haven.
Ron
Ryan and Ian Kenney are preparing a
research paper for the National Association of Friendship Centres
on the QUAD Principles (Quality, Universal, Accessible, Developmental)
in Early Learning and Child Care programs. The paper, looking
at programs at Friendship Centres in Halifax, Brandon and Port
Alberni, is for submission by the NAFC to the First Nations and
Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada and Social Development Canada.
Busman's
Holiday: Greg Smith was a lucky winner of one
of the fifty-two weekly 2005 draws in the Iqaluit Rotary Club
Travel Bonanza! the Iqaluit Rotary Get-Away Bonanza - gaining
him two free return tickets to Iqaluit via Canadian North. The
ticket draws are part of an annual fundraising campaign by the
Iqaluit Rotary Club. Aarluk partner and Rotary member Terry
Forth is a very effective salesman, and each year Aarluk,
Consilium and individual members of the firms have supported the
campaign by buying tickets. Now Greg and wife Marianne
have until next July to take advantage of their good fortune by
travelling to Nunavut's beautiful capital city. What better place
for a second honeymoon? There are still a few tickets available
for the 2006 weekly draws - and you'll support the good work of
Rotary in Iqaluit at the same time! Call Terry at (867) 979-2089
or email at 
Ian
Kenney attended the annual conference of the Canadian
Evaluation Society in Toronto last week. The conference was held
in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Evaluation
Association, making it one of the largest evaluation gatherings
in recent years. As a member of Consilium's evaluation team, Ian
has been involved in a number of program evaluations over the
past year.
