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Inuktun Services Rugged Underwater Camera Successfully Survives Shark Attack
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ANAIMO – For nearly 30 years Inuktun Services Limited has been a pioneer and an industry leader in the design, fabrication and deployment of industrial robotic systems. Today Inuktun robots are working in some of the harshest and most hostile environments on Earth. Able to explore the inner workings of a contaminated nuclear reactor, or prowling through a collapsed building seeking survivors, Inuktun robots have faced just about every challenge man or Nature could throw at them. Now the company can add shark attack to the expanding list of obstacles it has overcome. “Back in February, Gurney Productions, the creative producers of an episode of Shark Week for the Discovery Channel, contacted us looking for a high definition SEE INUKTUN SERVICES | PAGE 30
Inuktun Services Limited’s Priscilla Johnson shows off a camera similar to the one that proved mightier than Jaws
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Chief Louie: Economic Development Brings Opportunity To First Nations Celebrated Osoyoos Indian Band Leader Shares Inspirational Message With Ucluelet First Nation BY MARK MACDONALD BUSINESS EXAMINER
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CLUELET – Money equals opportunity. That’s how Chief Clarence Louie of Osoyoos Indian Band sees it. One of Canada’s most successful Chiefs, Louie has earned accolades for his approach to economic development that has brought prosperity to the South Okanagan First Nation. He shared that inspirational message
with Ucluelet First Nation members on September 2. Economic development, he believes, is an irreplaceable part of any forward progress for any First Nation. “Economic development is your path to freedom. We can’t depend on the Department of Indian Affairs,” he states. “They’ve never properly funded one program on an Indian Reserve, and never will.” “We need to create our own
jobs, with our own money. It’s not all about money, but words without money have no legs.” O soyo o s F i rs t Nat ion h a s earned a reputation as one of the country’s most progressive and successful First Nations, owning and operating numerous profitable businesses that employ workers from 30 different nationalities. They include Senkulmen Business Park, Spirit Ridge NK’Mip Resort, NK’Mip (I n k a meep)
Cellars wine, NK’MIP RV Park, NK’MIp Desert Cultural Centre, N K’M ip Ca nyon Deser t Golf Course and Canyon Desert Resort. Osoyoos Indian Band leases 227 acres of land to Area 27 Motorsports Park in Oliver. Designed by famous Canadian Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve, is described as, “five kilometres of adrenaline and discipline. Built SEE CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE | PAGE 25