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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:30 PM
The Haisla Nation have joined the Coastal First Nations Reconciliation Protocol, a move that will create economic opportunities for the Haisla people and increase certainty over the coastal land base for the First Nation, industry and government.
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Friday, November 18, 2011 3:00 PM
Job training, joint ventures with industry and exploration of clean energy developments are some of the opportunities being pursued by 14 Aboriginal communities across B.C. through a total of $510,000 from the second round of the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 2:30 PM
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Chief negotiators for Canada, British Columbia and the Tla'amin Nation (Sliammon First Nation) today initialled a Final Agreement. This initialling marks an important step toward a treaty that would bring economic and social benefits to the First Nation and the Powell River region.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:02 PM
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British Columbia's jobs plan will build on the Province's solid foundation of prudent fiscal management to attract investment and open new markets for B.C. products and services, defending and creating jobs for British Columbians, Premier Christy Clark said today.
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Monday, September 19, 2011 1:15 PM
As part of "Canada Starts Here: The BC Jobs Plan", to be formally released on Thursday, Premier Christy Clark today announced British Columbia will take four key steps to create a prosperous liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and jobs, including making the Kitimat liquefied natural gas plant operational by 2015.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:30 AM
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Premier Christy Clark and Taku River Tlingit First Nation spokesperson John Ward signed an agreement that creates 13 new protected areas and provides resource development opportunities and investment certainty in more than three million hectares (approximately 11,500 square miles) in the Atlin Taku region of northwestern B.C.
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Friday, July 8, 2011 12:01 PM
A new forestry agreement and pre-treaty funding will support social and economic programs for the Tla'amin (Sliammon) Nation and restore valuable river habitat, announced Mary Polak, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, who visited the Tla'amin community and Powell River today.
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Friday, June 17, 2011 3:40 PM
Mary Polak, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, announced a new Minister's Advisory Council on Aboriginal Women that will provide advice to government and other organizations on how to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal women across British Columbia.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:07 PM
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Placing drawings and handwritten stories into a time capsule, Premier Christy Clark and Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister Mary Polak joined Yale Chief Robert Hope and youth from the Yale First Nation to celebrate the introduction of provincial legislation to ratify B.C.'s third modern treaty under the B.C. treaty process.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:30 AM
The Brunswick Point lands, located along the Fraser River where it meets the Salish Sea in Delta, have been at the centre of discussions between the Province, the families who were the previous land owners and the Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN).
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