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Artificial Intelligence and Pinnguaq

By Ryan Oliver I’ve struggled with where Pinnguaq fits in the Artificial Intelligence landscape since Chat GPT launched in late 2022. Like many of you, we were impressed and excited by the early promise of...

Akinomaage: building connections and understanding of our land

Pinnguaq’s new learning resource, called Akinomaage: Exploring Our Seasons, is helping learners and educators connect to their environment while discovering how science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) can be found in nature.

Case Study: Website Reboot – I-Think

Our client is an incredible non-profit focused on equipping young learners with the skills and confidence to drive change, and developing their 21st century skills and competencies. Pinnguaq was retained to reboot their current site...

A Conversation on Climate

As a young Gitxsan and Cree-Métis girl growing up in Gitanmaax First Nation in northern British Columbia, Janna Wale loved school—Now a policy advisor at the Canadian Climate Institute, Wale talks to Karen Pinchin about...

Sustainable Artistry Blooms in Kawartha

In Ontario’s City of Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough, shoppers can find loads of creators to help stock their cupboards, wardrobes, and minds, all the while decreasing their environmental footprint.

Framing the Land

Now, Willard is an artist, curator, and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan. A mixed Secwépemc and settler, Willard’s research is focused in part on providing a view of the art...

Resilience in the Wild

Animals adapt, physically and behaviourally, as a means of survival, so they can reach their main food sources, fend off predators, and survive seasonal changes in the weather. Whether we realize it or not, we...

Naturally Ink-quisitive

Art is a great way to get creative, fire up different parts of the brain, and see something in a new way. To make colourful, sustainable inks that don’t come with excess packaging or contain...

A Journey From Pliés to Panels

Born in Little Buffalo, a remote Alberta community ringed by oil extraction efforts, Melina Laboucan-Massimo knows the feeling of being helpless in the face of a warming planet. Every time her family drove across their...

Take Samples, Make Change

Clean water is a right for all; the human race, animals, and the water itself. Just as clean water is a right, so is the ability to identify if water is clean.

From Old-Growth Rainforests to Arctic Sea Ice

The Tla-o-qui-aht Nation’s territory extends from one of the few remaining ancient temperate rainforests down to the Pacific Ocean. It is a place of thousand-year-old cedars up to 12 metres tall. Elk run through the...

Supporting STEM in Remote Regions

More students in remote, rural, and Indigenous communities in Canada will have opportunities to become proficient in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), thanks to the Drax Foundation.

Request for Proposal: Independent Auditing Services 2023-2024

Application Deadline: March 15, 2024 Pinnguaq Association is inviting proposals from qualified auditing firms to provide independent auditing services. Background Pinnguaq Association is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to work alongside rural, remote, Indigenous...

Unlocking the power of inclusion in gaming

At a glance: Pinnguaq has always been about play – our desire to make the gaming and tech industry more accessible has never faltered. Our challenge to the sector? Make products that are accessible to...

Preparing for a diverse digital workforce, Pinnguaq celebrates one year of SuccessWorks

Thanks to the generous funding provided by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), more than 30 Indigenous job seekers and nine Indigenous-owned businesses have grown through Pinnguaq’s SuccessWorks program so far,...