The TNG Spring Newsletter is here! Take a look at all of the activities and projects that have happened so far and what’s being planned for later this Spring! Full Newsletter here: https://www.tsilhqotin.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TNG-Newsletter-Spring-2021.pdf
TNG is hosting our second virtual Career Fair on Wednesday, May 5th at 1 pm! Please join us and hear from TNG’s • Construction Manager, Sherry Wiebe• Senior Advisor, Tŝilhqot’in Nen (Water, Lands & Resources), J.P Laplante,• Human Resources Generalist, Brittany Spooner• Community Radio Coordinator, Racine Jeff• Employment Coordinator, Tiana Read more…
A great opportunity for Tŝilhqot’in Nation members! New for this fire season the Cariboo Fire Centre will work with the Tŝilhqot’in National Government (TNG) to deliver the first Tŝilhqot’in Wildland Firefighter Bootcamp, a First Nations Training and Recruitment Program. PDF download available here: https://www.tsilhqotin.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/21-Program-Info-March-81.pdf
Today, the Tsilhqot’in Nation released its #COVID19 report, Dada Nentsen Gha Yatastig; Tŝilhqot’in in the Time of COVID: Strengthening Tŝilhqot’in Ways to Protect Our People. The translated title means “I’m going to tell you about a very bad disease”. Chief Joe Alphonse, TNG Tribal Chairman, Jenny Philbrick, TNG Executive Director, Read more…
Today marks the beginning of the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) virtual hearing of the Tŝilhqot’in Nation’s challenge of an amendment to a discharge permit authorized by a Director of the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. The Tŝilhqot’in Nation is appealing the amended permit on the grounds that Read more…
Beginning on March 15th, the Tŝilhqot’in Nation will be taking part in an Environmental Appeal Board virtual hearing, challenging a permit amendment issued by a Director of the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy that authorized a 50% increase in discharge from the Gibraltar Mine tailings pond directly Read more…
Chilcotin River steelhead are in a state of extreme conservation concern. To aid the recovery of Chilcotin River steelhead, the Tŝilhqot’in National Government has confirmed the continued closure of the Chilcotin River steelhead fishery for 2021, and requests that members not harvest steelhead in the Chilcotin, Chilko and Taseko waters. Read more…
