Posted in Conferences on August 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Aboriginal leaders in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., hope a conference on water quality that began Friday will unite First Nations and environmental activists in lobbying governments to protect the Athabasca River watershed.
Delegates from across Western Canada, and even as far afield as Washington state, began the three-day Keepers of the Water conference Friday morning in Fort […]
I will be presenting during the upcoming WCWWA conference in Regina, Saskatchewan this September 23-26. The session will be on the Canadian WARN program. I hope this to be an informative talk and to spread the word of WARN! We will also be looking to have a meeting of WestWARN at the conference, I will […]
I know this post is a little late, but it was sure great to see the great turn out we had for the second AbWARN leadership team meeting, on April 11. Leadership team members were treated to some good skiing weather, and chance to see the inside of the wonderful new Water Centre.
A next step will be to […]
Preparation is under way for the Leadership Team workshop in Calgary on September 14th. Stay tuned for the outcomes of that meeting.
Posted in Conferences on July 9th, 2007 No Comments »
The World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) took place in Toronto during the first week of July. Once again it highlighted the awareness on global threats including natural, accidental, and intentional hazards. This year’s conference was especially timely considering the current events in the U.K. such as the terrorist attack and devastating floods currently being […]