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Planting proves challenging on the Waikirikiri Selwyn River The combination of dry conditions, thin, poor-quality soil and a highly modified river is making for an extra challenging native revegetation programme on the central Canterbury/Waitaha river berm. However, tricky conditions or even flooding are not going to stop our rivers team from trying to reintroduce native…
Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio says the New Year’s Honours List 2021 highlights again the outstanding contribution made by Pacific people across Aotearoa. “We are acknowledging the work of 13 Pacific leaders in the New Year’s Honours, representing a number of sectors including health, education, community, sports, the arts, media and the public…
The 2021 New Year’s Honours List highlights again the outstanding contribution made by Pacific people across Aotearoa. Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito William Sio says it acknowledges the work of 13 Pacific leaders, representing several sectors including health, education, community, sports, the arts, media and the public sector. He says all the Pacific recipients…
Old gold: how action sports athletes are challenging age stereotypes and redefining lifelong physical activity On The Conversation, Dr Nick Maitland, co-author and University of Canterbury lecturer in Sports Management and Marketing, explains how pioneers of action sport continue to reshape expectations of what is possible – independent of their age. Photo by Bryan Turner…
The most challenging phase of the Omicron outbreak is yet to come, but NZ may be better prepared than other countries In an article on The Conversation, senior lecturer Dr Matthew Hobbs (UC), Post Doctoral Fellow Lukas Marek (UC) and Dr Anna Howe (UOA) explain what advantages Aotearoa has over other countries to manage the…
Council achieves more service targets despite challenging year Environment Canterbury met more of its performance targets last year despite the challenges of the May 2020 flood event and ongoing impact of COVID-19. The Council adopted the annual report for the year ending 30 June 2021 on Thursday 16 December after receiving a clean audit opinion….
Christchurch City Council’s 2021 Annual Report shows it invested more than $446 million to improve city services, infrastructure and facilities. That investment helped pay for improvements in roads and footpaths, the transport network, water supply, stormwater and wastewater infrastructure. It helped pay for new cycleways, sport and recreation centres and community facilities. Infrastructure spending included…
Radical languages: Writers Behrouz Boochani & Vana Manasiadis on challenging monolingualism How does the language we speak shape us? Define us? Empower us? Limit us? What kinds of privilege and domination does it possess? Does our own language suppress or marginalise other languages, other voices? Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish Iranian who, during his lifetime,…
Christchurch City Council is challenging aspects of a proposed new law that could result in all reticulated water supplies having to be chemically disinfected. In a submission on the Water Services Bill, the Council says it supports the general thrust of the bill and thinks that it will improve the safety of drinking water supplies…