Feb 6, 2022 | International
Today, Canada’s Minister of Northern Affairs, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, delivered a keynote address and participated in a question and answer session on Canada’s leadership on climate action at the Great Northern Festival.
February 4, 2022 — Minneapolis, Minnesota — Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Across Canada’s North, Indigenous and northern communities lead the way in addressing the challenges of climate change through adaptation, mitigation, and monitoring, along with supporting healthy and resilient ecosystems.
Today, Canada’s Minister of Northern Affairs, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, delivered a keynote address and participated in a question and answer session on Canada’s leadership on climate action at the Great Northern Festival.
The Great Northern Festival is an annual celebration that spotlights a wide variety of winter culture and activities. The Minister’s keynote address was part of the festival’s Climate Action Series, which features a wide range of voices exploring approaches to climate action.
In his address, Minister Vandal highlighted the actions of Indigenous, industry, government and local leaders in Canada who bring positive change to communities in the North and Arctic through their action on climate change. Minister Vandal also outlined Canada’s Strengthened Climate Plan, and federal support for research through Polar Knowledge Canada in partnership with Inuit Tapirit Kanatami. In addition, he highlighted Canada’s investments in key climate projects such as SmartICE technology—the worldʼs first climate change adaptation tool to integrate Indigenous knowledge of sea ice with advanced data acquisition and remote monitoring technology.
Canada’s leadership on climate action in the North and Arctic is guided by the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, and the Arctic and Northern Policy Framework. The Government of Canada, Indigenous Peoples, and six territorial and provincial governments came together to co-develop, and are now co-implementing, the framework—a transformative vision of the future in which northern and Arctic people are thriving, strong and safe, and supported by healthy and resilient ecosystems. The framework goals provide a broad foundation for addressing and mitigating the complex impacts of climate change on the people, infrastructure, and environment of the North.
“Canada is warming at twice the global rate, bringing challenges such as shoreline erosion, wildfire risk, and permafrost instability, especially in the North and Arctic where it is warming at three times the global rate. We are working together with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners and Northern communities to prepare for, adapt, mitigate, monitor and respond to climate change using Indigenous Knowledge and science, while passing on important intergenerational skills and wisdom. I would like to thank the organizers of the Great Northern Festival for their Climate Solutions Series and for inviting Canada to highlight climate change challenges in the North and show how Indigenous and Northern communities are leading the way in addressing the climate crisis.”
The Honourable Daniel Vandal, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Northern Affairs
Dec 15, 2021 | Business
The engineers at EMKA have noted the growth of social and industrial dependence on internet cable connectivity while at the same time, it seems that there has been an increase in the scope of “street culture” which sees these cabinets as naturally vulnerable features of the public environment.
This has led them to focus on the issues of vandal resistance for locking outdoor cabinets which has (sadly) become a significant issue, and have responded with a range of swinghandles capable of resisting vandal attack to level RC2 (DIN EN 1630) and other solutions including electronic lock and release mechanisms which allow the door lock to be completely concealed within the cabinet. They are matched by rod systems for multi-point locking systems – round and flat rods for three-point locking – which resist opening at door corners as well as at the lock point and with concealed internal hinges which are non-visible and so protected from vandal attack.
For less exposed areas RC2 capability is complimented with a wide range of swinghandles which meet the need for slightly lower resistance levels, a situation where the swinghandle design is intrinsically appropriate to the task, by virtue of the way the pop out lever is recessed into the escutcheon body with naturally small clearances. This level includes product solutions with double profile half cylinders or with padlock facility – also the use of tough reinforced polyamide, high quality zinc die or stainless steel.
Multifunctional enclosures or cable distribution cabinets can be found on almost every street corner, serving the community by bringing telephone, internet and TV signals into nearby houses. The water supply, traffic management (traffic light systems etc.) electricity suppliers and 5G providers also locate their infrastructure in such cabinets. These facilities are highly sensitive and have become a popular target for vandals for a variety of reasons from senseless destruction, to theft of copper wiring. Consequently, EMKA have included new cabinet hardware guidance on their website for the benefit of design and production engineers, in order to facilitate highly secure locking systems as protection for these sensitive units.
As a long-term partner in the telecommunications industry, EMKA have been a market leader for many years, developing products that meet the extraordinary requirements for outdoor locking solutions. Products for highly resistant and weatherproof network and telecommunications cabinets must meet special requirements for outdoor applications. Their online guide therefore directs users to locking solutions and hinges with appropriate temperature resistance, vandalism security – with resistance class RC2 DIN EN 1630 or with special graffiti protection. It also describes a broad range of locks and hinges for simpler installation areas in less exposed areas as well.
For opening and closing of the cabinets where electronic connectivity is required then the EMKA range allows customers to choose between networked electronic solutions including remote monitoring and locking solutions with double profile half cylinder according to DIN EN 18252-BZ or DIN EN 1303 with attack resistance class 2 and drilling and pulling protection.
With this robust range of IP65 swinghandles they now offer a wide range of solutions: from the cost-efficient plastic variation up to high-quality electromechanical locks of zinc diecast. With regard to the design the focus is put on the special tightness and increased vandalism protection of the locks. The clearances between handle and body have been made so small that screwdrivers do not fit in. In addition, the surfaces are as smooth as possible so that no dirt can accumulate or graffiti adhere to them. A system of electromagnetic release and emergency opening provides the security and ease of operation of a low profile swinghandle together with the extra level of electronic security.
Door hardware packages are completed with push in gaskets to fit moulded channels in GRP cabinets and clip on gaskets to fit edges of steel enclosures, also with door stays and stops in steel and stainless steel to protect against hazardous wind pressure during installation and servicing.
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