George Lessard

George has worked in Northern media and the education sector while living in Salluit, Nunavik (Arctic Quebec), Arviat, (Nunavut); Inuvik, Forth Smith and Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) since 1982 with a few side trips to China; the Bahamas; Bolivia; Rwanda; Russia and India mostly to help journalists learn their trade.

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Jul 6, 2015

Canada Without Poverty challenges Harper audits at United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva

George Lessard

Canada Without Poverty denounces Income Tax Act as violation of freedom of expression and assembly in address to the United Nations.

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Jul 2, 2015

Mikisew Cree First Nation applauds UNESCO decision on Wood Buffalo National Park

George Lessard

Wood Buffalo National Park was listed as a World Heritage Site over 30 years ago for its globally unique and important ecosystems.

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Jun 3, 2015

Rally Against Fracking in the NWT

George Lessard

Fracking Action North Rally Against Fracking in the NWT video

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Apr 24, 2015

Local government responsibility and the right to adequate housing

George Lessard

UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha on adequate housing - 16th Meeting, 28th Regular Session HR Council

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Mar 19, 2015

Former Justice Thomas Berger opens 'Thunder in our Voices' exhibition

George Lessard

Between 1975 and 1977, Justice Thomas Berger visited 30 communities in the NWT and the Yukon to hold hearings into the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. In this video, he speaks of those days.

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Mar 14, 2015

Stand up against Bill C-51 in Yellowknife, NWT

George Lessard

Stand up against Bill C-51 in Yellowknife, NWT.

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Nov 29, 2014

What Nunavut's MP doesn’t know about poverty in her riding but the auditor general found out

George Lessard

Auditor General: Nutrition North Canada does not verify if consumers benefit from subsidy “There is no indicator to measure whether the full subsidy was being passed on to consumers”

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Oct 23, 2014

NWT Legislative Assembly's flags at half staff

George Lessard

"...Canadian and Northern resolve [will] continue to be stronger then ever..."

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Oct 19, 2014

Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People

George Lessard

"...a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North..."

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Sep 7, 2014

AFN commission on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women; RCMP policing in the NWT

George Lessard

VIDEO: AFN commission on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women; RCMP policing in the NWT

George Lessard

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