In recent years, Canadians have started listening to the Indigenous voices that had been silenced for so long. While this is prompting many to want to act in reconciliation collectively, a key message from many of these voices is that we must first fully engage with "truth" in order to make reconciliation possible and meaningful....

The Environmental Sciences Training Institute is hosting backpack electrofishing certification training in Alberta and British Columbia this September. This one-and-a-half day course serves to certify participants in backpack electrofishing safety, fish handling methods, equipment, and fundamentals of electrical theory. Please contact efishing@esticanada.com with any questions or to book a custom delivery. Learn about our Efishing program here.

NRTG is the leading provider of electrofishing training in Canada. Since 1994, NRTG staff have successfully trained more than 8,000 Canadian industry practitioners in the practice of safe and effective electrofishing. By registering for the Electrofishing Certification Prince George Field Session, you will also be registered in the Electrofishing Certification Self-Paced Training. Please note that the...

Presented by the Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology, this online course with Ayla Pearson will provide students with the tools they need to effectively tidy, transform and visualize their data in R. This course will teach the theory behind tidy data, setting up a reproducible data pipeline, introduction in the tidyverse suite of packages,...

Join Indigenous leaders, federal, provincial, and local governments, restoration practitioners, and industry representatives to dive into the conference themes of innovation, collaboration, preparing for the future, and healing the land together. Healing the Land Conference, hosted by Saulteau First Nations, will will explore successful partnerships, collaborative restoration and protection efforts, and emerging technologies that honor...

This course presented by Royal Roads University invites learners into deeper thinking, reflection and content pertaining to Indigenous perspectives in climate adaptation and mitigation. Ultimately, this course provides a space for participants to consider how and where Indigenous leadership can not only restore better-practice across social and political landscapes, but also heal relationships with our...

This training by the Indigenous Relations Academy is Indigenous Awareness and Indigenous Relations in a single foundational course. Get beyond Indigenous awareness to cultural competency through practical skills and tools that can be applied everywhere.

The Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology (CMI) hosts an annual event where they gather members of the scientific community, Indigenous community members and representatives, stewardship groups, and interested individuals to provide updates on ecological projects taking place in southeastern British Columbia – everything from field trials, new restoration projects and their associated community initiatives,...

Writing persuasive proposals is a key skill for people working in consulting, for students in academia, for non-profit organizations seeking funding, and for Indigenous agencies looking to do some work on their land. Winning Proposals is a MicroCourse delivered by NRTG and dedicated to helping those responsible for responding to requests for proposals or grant applications achieve...

Are you ready to engage with an Indigenous community but aren't sure of where to start? Do you understand the differences between consultation and engagement? The Indigenous Relations Academy take their Indigenous cross-cultural awareness training program, Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples® and get beyond Indigenous awareness to practical skills and tools that can be applied during Indigenous consultation and...

In the Plant Identification Level 2 MicroCourse presented by NRTG, participants will delve deeper into important botanical terminology to enhance familiarity with various plants encountered in nature. Attendees will also explore the anatomy of difficult plant groups and discuss which characteristics to note and photograph when initiating species identification.

Have you developed and implemented an effective consultation and engagement strategy and are now ready to negotiate, but aren’t sure how to start? Or how to prepare for that all-important first community meeting? This is a 200 level training session building upon the material provided in the Indigenous Relations Academy foundational Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples® training, where they focus on the RESPECT model and apply...