Welcome to Aquatic Resources at StFX – an interdisciplinary studies program – focused on water, environment and sustainability – offered in Sciences or Arts. Located in a community nestled along Canada’s rugged Atlantic coastline, this program provides hands-on learning that explores water (freshwater and marine) resources, aquatic life, climate change, policy, and the complexities of human-ecosystem interactions.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), formerly Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, is the national voice of 55,000 Inuit living in 53 communities across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), land claims regions. Inuit call this vast region Inuit Nunangat.
My purpose in writing this chapter is to reiterate briefly the overall thrust of the commission's work and to comment on the impact the report appears to be having after two years in the pub- lic domain. I would be presumptuous to claim that these few pages could provide a balanced synopsis of the five volumes and 3500 pages of the commission's report. My comments represent a perspective, much of it grounded in the words of the commission itself that is highly selective in emphasis.
This paper reviews the purpose, vision, and contents of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, while exploring its potential impacts, economic and otherwise, on Aborignal peoples.
Developed by the UBC Institute for Aboriginal Health and UBC Continuing Studies, this award-winning certificate program is designed to help those who work in Aboriginal communities to increase the community’s capacity to deliver services, coordinate programs and promote the health of their people. The program expands its focus beyond health delivery to include environmental and other community health issues.
Courses in the Development Studies Stream have been selected to provide students with a broad, interdisciplinary education focusing on the conditions and problems of less-developed countries comprising the so-called "Third World" and such parts of more developed nations referred to as the "Fourth World", the history and theory of economic development around the world, and the geographic and environmental consequences of "development." The recommended courses in this stream include examinations of specific aspects of third world development in all of the disciplines involved in the program.
The Aboriginal Self-Government Administration program trains students in the Aboriginal self-government process. The program teaches the fundamental aspects of the self-government process. Students will learn to gather and compile information using modern information technology, conduct research, prepare documentation, present materials, and analyze programs and proposals as they relate to self-governance.
This is a two-year professional course of study that combines graduate-level coursework in economics with a number of graduate courses in cognate disciplines (underlining the interdisciplinary nature of development) and the completion of a master's thesis. The MDE focuses on economic progress in poor countries and poor regions of wealthy countries such as Canada. The MDE prepares students for professional policy-analysis in the public or private sectors in Canada or abroad.
Learn about government institutions and processes, policies, management and administration in Aboriginal communities. Develop your management and administrative skills in this exciting and challenging program. Participate in special internship courses and events and engage with the leaders in the field. Learn about the governance of Aboriginal communities and their relations with other communities in northern, rural and urban areas. Understand the role of Indigenous Knowledge in developing culturally appropriate governance systems.
