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Mentoring from One Coast to Another

November 10, 2020

Andrew de Vries has worked in the forest and conservation sector for more than 30 years. Although he’s coached and managed people in the past, he’d never been a part of a formal mentorship program before PLT Canada’s Green Mentor program. The British Columbia local was matched with a mentee on the other side of the country—Vicky Papuga, a student at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. “I was really surprised at how well the matching software worked,” said de Vries.…

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How PLT Canada’s Mentorship Program Transformed My Life

October 27, 2020

Catherine Langille was unsure about her future plans, but after a few years working as a Project Learning Tree Canada (PLT Canada) Green Jobs youth with the Outland Youth Employment Program (OYEP), she knew she wanted to work in a Green Job. Mark Kmill, who oversees OYEP’s Eastern Division, encouraged the Thunder Bay local to apply to PLT Canada’s new mentorship program. Aside from having been a Green Jobs youth, Langille had previously also attended PLT Canada webinars and received…

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What Do You Call This?

October 20, 2020

By Paul Robitaille, Director of Indigenous and Youth Relationships  Life’s most impactful moments sometimes come in the simplest of packages and in the most unexpected places. This moment for me came in the form of a single word in the middle of a forest, 650km north of Thunder Bay.  It was my first Green Job – a co-op placement toward completing the Forest Technician program at Confederation College. I was a summer research assistant, tasked with supporting an interdisciplinary team…

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Growing Partnerships, Prosperity and a Brighter Future for Us All

October 20, 2020

By Paul Robitaille, Director of Indigenous and Youth Relationships “The right to land and to self-government. The right to self-determination. Those causes are right in any society.”  Being Métis, that statement by Jim Sinclair to the 1987 First Ministers’ Conference often plays in my mind.  Self-determination—the ability to freely pursue one’s own destiny—is a basic human right. It is enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has since been formally recognized by the Government of…

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Tree Whisperers reveal the secrets of the forest on Earth Rangers’ podcast

October 08, 2020

Did you know that a tree 48 metres tall and 4.5 metres around can hold about an elephant and a half of carbon (8252 kilograms)? Sarah Marks, the host of Earth Rangers’ “The Big Melt” podcast explores the role forests play in the fight against climate change in Episode 12: Forest Management 101 – Secrets of the Tree Whisperers. She speaks to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s (SFI) Senior Director of Conservation Strategy, Darren Sleep, about forest management and a past…

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