#NDP's Layton Appoints #NWT's Bevington Champion for all things Northern.

MAY 30, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Layton appoints Bevington Champion for all things Northern.

YELLOWKNIFE – Western Arctic New Democrat MP Dennis Bevington said he is honoured to accept the appointment as Official Opposition Critic for Northern Development and the nomination as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

"I plan on continuing the work I have been doing to improve the lives for Northerners," said Bevington. "Over the next several years the North will see major changes and I will continue to ensure all Northerners are heard and not just those favoured by the Conservatives."


In making the appointment New Democrat Leader Jack Layton said, " No-one in the House of Commons speaks out more forcefully for the development of the North and for helping families with the affordability challenges of living in Canada's most remote communities than Dennis Bevington and I am proud to appoint him as our Champion for all things Northern.


Bevington's appointment includes being the critic for CanNor, the federal economic development agency for the North.

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For More Information Contact:
Joshua Campbell
Constituency Assistant / Adjoint de Circonscription
Office of/ Bureau de Dennis Bevington MP
Western Arctic
PO Box 1986
Yellowknife, NT   X1A 2P5
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Qimaavaik (Inkitut for "A Place to Run To") Iqaluit Nunavut

When we think of the Arctic, we often think of global warming. But a deeper, darker issue plagues the region. In the northern Canadian town of Iqaluit, women are eight times more likely to be victims of domestic violence. See how brave Arctic women are supporting each other at Qimaavaik (Inkitut for "A Place to Run To"), a safe haven for abused women and children. Through peer support and counseling, they are building self-esteem and healing wounded spirits.

"Homeless in Yellowknife: An Emerging Social Challenge" launch on YouTube

Homeless in Yellowknife: An Emerging Social Challenge
Report Launch at Yellowknife City Hall Part No. 01
http://youtu.be/eqUDFXmLlVo



There is a considerable amount of visible homelessness in Yellowknife (NWT), yet very little third-party analysis of the situation. This report begins by briefly discussing who is homeless in Yellowknife and then outlines program responses, including emergency shelters and various models of housing. An overview will then be provided of major funding initiatives from the federal and territorial governments, as well as various forms of homelessness assistance provided by the City of Yellowknife. The report concludes by making policy recommendations with respect to the need for increased accountability, shelter standards, more housing options for the homeless, and a public health response to alcohol and drug use.
Download the PDF of the report here / Thanks to:
http://www.homelesshub.ca/yellowknife/





Or here:
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Blue is where I should have gone, red is where I did go.
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Norman Wells #NWT- High school students on the beamline

Norman Wells - High school students on the beamline, a set by CLS Research Office on Flickr.

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Photos from a students-on-the-beamlines experiment with students from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories

Call for Papers: Tourism & Travel in the Circumpolar North for "The Northern Review"

From: Deanna McLeod dmcleod@yukoncollege.yk.ca 

 

Please circulate widely.

 

The Northern Review

Exploring human experience in the North

 

 

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Tourism and Travel in the Circumpolar North

 

The last two decades have seen an increased interest and capacity for tourism in the North. "Selling the North" for tourism has meant highlighting its vast space, its pristine wilderness, its exotic northern lifestyles and its Indigenous people. Tourism contributes to a variety of mandates for communities and governments including cultural revitalization and economic diversification and development. However, alongside the many opportunities tourism offers to visitors, to northern people, their communities, and their governments, tourism also presents numerous challenges. Negotiating the positive aspects of tourism with the potential negative impacts has been discussed for at least the last two decades (Butler, 1990), including perspectives specific to peripheral and circumpolar regions (Brown & Hall, 2000; Dawson, Maher, & Slocombe, 2007; Hall & Boyd, 2005; Hall & Saarinen, 2010; Krakover & Gradus, 2002; Müller & Jansson, 2007; Sahlberg, 2001). Notwithstanding the value gained by continued attention aimed at mitigating tourism's negative impacts, arguably the lure of the North and its positive effects on people, as well as tourism's ability to contribute to communities and regions in constructive ways, requires that scholarly attention continue to be paid.

 

The Northern Review is interested in receiving articles that examine issues and present discussions about tourism and travel in the Circumpolar North, including but not limited to how tourism engages with:

 

§         Economic, regional, community, and sustainable development

§         Business, entrepreneurial and product development

§         Place-based and other planning approaches

§         Identity (e.g., place making, tourism marketing)

§         Climate change

§         Northern and Indigenous cultures and communities

§         The social economy and creative economies

§         Gender

§         Methodological innovation and experience

 

Manuscripts received before midnight August 15, 2011 will be considered for publication in Number 36 (Spring 2012). Send submissions or queries to Guest Editor Suzanne de la Barre, PhD care of managing editor, Deanna McLeod, dmcleod@yukoncollege.yk.ca. Please visit the website www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/review for submission guidelines.

 

About the Northern ReviewThe journal does not generally include within its mandate the publication of purely scientific studies, unless they are placed in a human context. The journal endeavours to provide solid, North-centred scholarship, engaged with issues of significant concern to the people of Arctic and Subarctic regions. The material included in the journal ranges widely, from issues of social policy and northern politics to questions of Indigenous cultures in transition and the historical experience of newcomers.

Over the past few years, the journal has reached beyond northern Canada to include contributions from Alaska and Europe and from disciplines that have not previously been represented in the pages of the journal. The North has changed dramatically since the Northern Review was founded in 1988, and international and circumpolar dialogue has expanded rapidly. One of the best features of northern scholarship is that it reaches so readily across national and disciplinary boundaries.

Recent back issues of the journal are available online at http://journals.sfu.ca/nr 

 

References

Brown, F. and Hall, D. (Eds.) (2000). Tourism in Peripheral Areas. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications.

Butler, R.W. (1990). Alternative Tourism: Pious Hope or Trojan Horse? Journal of Travel Research, 3, 40–45.

Dawson, J., Maher, P.T., & Slocombe, D.S. (2007). Climate Change, Marine Tourism and Sustainability in the Canadian Arctic: Contributions from Systems and Complexity Approaches. Tourism in Marine Environments, 4(2-3), 69–83.

Hall, C.M. and Boyd, S. (2005). Nature-Based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster? Clevedon, England: Channel View Publications.

Hall, C.M. and Saarinen, J. (Eds.) (2010). Tourism and Change in Polar Regions: Climate, Environment and Experiences. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Krakover, S. and Gradus (2002). Tourism in Frontier Areas. Oxford: Lexington Books.

Müller, D.K. and Jansson, B. (Eds.) (2007). Tourism in Peripheries: Perspectives from the far North and South. Oxfordshire, UK and Cambridge, MA: CAB International.

Sahlberg, B. (2001). Going North: Peripheral Tourism in Canada and Sweden. European Tourism Research Institute, ETOURs rapportserien, R 2001:6. Ostersund, Sweden: Mid-Sweden University.

 

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Deanna McLeod
Managing Editor, The Northern Review
Box 2799, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4
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Recent back issues now online: http://journals.sfu.ca/nr

Spring Show - Yellowknife Watercolour Society #YZF #NWT #Art

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From: Aurora Arts Society <auroraartssociety@gmail.com>
Date: 25 May 2011 15:10
Subject: Spring Show - Yellowknife Watercolour Society
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The Yellowknife Watercolour Society is hosting their annual Spring Show!

This Saturday, May 28
10:00am - 4:00am
Northern United Place Auditorium

Come and see what the Society has been up to this year and try painting a watercolour postcard!

For more information, contact rae_braden@hotmail.com