There was a three day workshop held in Nain last week hosted by the Inuit section of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. If you think that is complicated it aint half of it.
Any way the workshops were held with the support of the Nunatsiavut Government and was given by staff of Stats Canada. How to take numbers and convert them to percentages, entering numbers into commuter data bases and the like.
Staff from NG department of health, NICG and private citizens [with some spouses] who partook in the workshops enjoyed a very nice baked char meal at the Atsanik Lodge on Saturday night, a reward for all their hard work.
In the future it is hoped that numbers and percentages on many health issues will be available for health care workers and policy makes to use in trying to figure out what is needed to improve the health of the people of Nunatsiavut.
Any way the workshops were held with the support of the Nunatsiavut Government and was given by staff of Stats Canada. How to take numbers and convert them to percentages, entering numbers into commuter data bases and the like.
Staff from NG department of health, NICG and private citizens [with some spouses] who partook in the workshops enjoyed a very nice baked char meal at the Atsanik Lodge on Saturday night, a reward for all their hard work.
In the future it is hoped that numbers and percentages on many health issues will be available for health care workers and policy makes to use in trying to figure out what is needed to improve the health of the people of Nunatsiavut.
Pictured at right are some of the workshop participants. Photo credit unknown.
Now I am hesitant to offer up advice to the erstwhile citizens of the capital city of the province [they do a balls up job of screwing things up without my help], but it seems the Irish have a good model for raising funds to put into recycling programs and other environmental issues.
With the City of St. John’s crying poor mouth and having to postpone their curbside recycling program, why not introduce a levy of plastic bags and put the funds into the postponed program.
That way you do more good than harm for the environment, the citizens pay for the program themselves and at the same time minimize the amount of plastic bags that have to be put out in the curb side program. Seems a win win for mother earth to me.
With the City of St. John’s crying poor mouth and having to postpone their curbside recycling program, why not introduce a levy of plastic bags and put the funds into the postponed program.
That way you do more good than harm for the environment, the citizens pay for the program themselves and at the same time minimize the amount of plastic bags that have to be put out in the curb side program. Seems a win win for mother earth to me.
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We're big into recycling here in BC. We have a massive household recycling program and our dump is nicer than most yards. In the last few months, the recycling program has gotten into big trouble. No one--in the world--is buying the cleaned, sorted product or the milled product, and it's just sitting there in these gargantuan mountains waiting for a better economic horizon. I worry that the day's going to come when the municipalities are going to say "either store it temporarily yourself, or put it at the curb for junk."
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