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Brandon University grad Jessica Li will deliver her valedictorian address online. (Tyler Murray)
Jessica Li’s advice for the class of 2021, as summed up in one line from her three-minute valedictorian speech: “If life gives you lemons, just squeeze them.”
Jessica Li’s advice for the class of 2021, as summed up in one line from her three-minute valedictorian speech: If life gives you lemons, just squeeze them.
As she prepares to pre-record her address for Brandon University’s upcoming virtual convocation, the 21-year-old is trying to take her own advice, by finding the sweet amid the sour of an unusual end to her bachelor’s degree.
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CanNor invests nearly $3 million to
build on a prior feasibility study examining the development of a hydroelectric and fibre-optic link between Manitoba and the Kivalliq region of Nunavut.
RANKIN INLET, NU, May 4, 2021 /CNW/ - There are significant economic and environmental opportunities in Nunavut s Kivalliq region. That s why in 2019 the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) invested in technical and feasibility work to support the potential development of a hydroelectric and fibre-optic link that would connect communities in the region to Northern Manitoba.
The feasibility work was successful in gathering technical data, providing design work, examining some of the impacts the link would create, and consulting with government officials and other organizations that could benefit from the project.
From: Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Today, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, on behalf of the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages and Minister responsible for CanNor, announced nearly $3 million in additional investments to support early phase data collection and analysis for the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link project.
CanNor invests nearly $3 million to build on a prior feasibility study examining the development of a hydroelectric and fibre-optic link between Manitoba and the Kivalliq region of Nunavut.
There are significant economic and environmental opportunities in Nunavut’s Kivalliq region. That’s why in 2019 the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) invested in technical and feasibility work to support the potential development of a hydroelectric and fibre-optic link that would connect communities in the region to Northern Manitoba.
Ringed seals under consideration for listing under Species at Risk Act This small seal needs sea ice to thrive, wrote the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, which declared ringed seals a species of special concern in November of 2019.
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Posted: Apr 07, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 7
Lew Philip and Joshua Kango walk by a ring seal they caught through the ice on Frobisher Bay near Iqaluit in 2003. The ringed seal has seemed to be doing well now and remains abundant in the Arctic, but in some local areas, Inuit have observed changes, says NTI vice-president James Eetoolook. (Canadian Press)