Natural disasters, to say the least, have jeopardized the livelihood of millions, and the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are not unfamiliar with the displacement and famine that follows (The World Bank, 2021). The 1.1 million […]
The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) is a group dedicated to understanding urban living and its impacts on human health. They have created a new assessment tool, GoodScore.City, which looks at multiple factors […]
On July 6th, Iain Rankin, Nova Scotia’s premier, was in the Annapolis Valley to unveil the provinces 9 million dollar investment in the growing global location technology sector. Joining him were NSCC President Don Bureaux […]
The Government of Canada and organizations such as the UN recognize the critical role of standards in geographic information and geomatics to support stewardship and interoperability of information, ensuring that organizations access, use and share […]
Concordia is looking for a highly motivated and research driven student with background in forestry, ecology, environmental geography or a related field for a MSc project. The project will be to compile a pre-European settlement […]
A successful and informative Day Three of the GeoIgnite 2021 conference closed out with an inaugural panel of provincial and territorial geospatial and location technology leaders. In it, panelists discussed priorities and challenges across jurisdictions, […]
Ladies and gentlemen, the GeoIgnite 2021 Volunteer of the Year — Clement Charre! The first time I met Clement Charre was late summer of 2019, a month or so after the inaugural GeoIgnite conference in […]
Day Two of GeoIgnite 2021 started off very strong with this fascinating keynote from Luc Brulé, the Vice President of the Canadian Space Agency. Luc gave a lot of insight into current CSA projects and […]