Is Borek Hiring Yet?
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Is Borek Hiring Yet?
I understand Borek laid-off some crews this winter. Looking for any updates if they are hiring captains for northern operations or if they will be in the near future.
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Crews are still on lay off. Won't see any movement till late spring if at all. Good luck.
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'Virtually prisoners'
Nunavut News/North - Monday, January 19, 2009
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In the 1950s, the Government of Canada relocated families from northern Quebec and Pond Inlet to several new High Arctic settlements, including Resolute and Grise Fiord.
There were a number of reasons the federal government moved these families. One was the overpopulation and resulting poor hunting around Inukjuaq on the Ungava peninsula. Another was the government's desire to reinforce Canada's sovereignty over the High Arctic islands in the face of competing claims by Norway and Denmark and the presence of the U.S. military.
Families from Inukjuaq, below the 60th parallel, were moved high above the Arctic Circle, accompanied by a few families from Pond Inlet whose task it was to help the more southern Inuit make a living from their new landscape.
In moving these families, government administrators failed to consider that a key to Inuit survival in the Arctic is generations of accumulated knowledge about the land they travel - the landscape and its landmarks, its seasonal fluctuations, and its wildlife.
The government acknowledged the four months of darkness in winter so high above the Arctic Circle but told the Inuit there were plenty of animals to hunt and promised that after a year or two, if they so desired, they could return home.
That was more than 50 years ago.
Now, according to the 2006 census, 141 people call Grise Fiord home. Resolute has a population of 230. Both communities have family connections to Pond Inlet, stemming from the relocation and the return of some residents to their original communities in the late 1980s.
But Unaalik Air recently cancelled direct scheduled flights between Resolute and Pond Inlet. Where travel between the communities used to take about an hour and cost around $500, now people must fly to Iqaluit to catch a connecting flight back to the other community, adding at least eight hours and $1,000 to their trip.
This is a ridiculous situation.
The communities of Grise Fiord and Resolute exist at the behest of the federal government. Their residents cope with conditions harsher than anywhere else in the Canadian Arctic - four months of darkness and temperatures that rarely creep above freezing even in summer - which is why no one chose to live there permanently until the government put them there.
Ausuittuqmiut and Qausuittuqmiut deserve to be able to afford to visit their relatives in Pond and northern Quebec and the federal government should subsidize scheduled flights between the communities. Anything less and the Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik should take up the fight for what's right.
Nunavut News/North - Monday, January 19, 2009
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In the 1950s, the Government of Canada relocated families from northern Quebec and Pond Inlet to several new High Arctic settlements, including Resolute and Grise Fiord.
There were a number of reasons the federal government moved these families. One was the overpopulation and resulting poor hunting around Inukjuaq on the Ungava peninsula. Another was the government's desire to reinforce Canada's sovereignty over the High Arctic islands in the face of competing claims by Norway and Denmark and the presence of the U.S. military.
Families from Inukjuaq, below the 60th parallel, were moved high above the Arctic Circle, accompanied by a few families from Pond Inlet whose task it was to help the more southern Inuit make a living from their new landscape.
In moving these families, government administrators failed to consider that a key to Inuit survival in the Arctic is generations of accumulated knowledge about the land they travel - the landscape and its landmarks, its seasonal fluctuations, and its wildlife.
The government acknowledged the four months of darkness in winter so high above the Arctic Circle but told the Inuit there were plenty of animals to hunt and promised that after a year or two, if they so desired, they could return home.
That was more than 50 years ago.
Now, according to the 2006 census, 141 people call Grise Fiord home. Resolute has a population of 230. Both communities have family connections to Pond Inlet, stemming from the relocation and the return of some residents to their original communities in the late 1980s.
But Unaalik Air recently cancelled direct scheduled flights between Resolute and Pond Inlet. Where travel between the communities used to take about an hour and cost around $500, now people must fly to Iqaluit to catch a connecting flight back to the other community, adding at least eight hours and $1,000 to their trip.
This is a ridiculous situation.
The communities of Grise Fiord and Resolute exist at the behest of the federal government. Their residents cope with conditions harsher than anywhere else in the Canadian Arctic - four months of darkness and temperatures that rarely creep above freezing even in summer - which is why no one chose to live there permanently until the government put them there.
Ausuittuqmiut and Qausuittuqmiut deserve to be able to afford to visit their relatives in Pond and northern Quebec and the federal government should subsidize scheduled flights between the communities. Anything less and the Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik should take up the fight for what's right.
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Can they possibly be hiring F/O's in late spring as well?
Re: Is Borek Hiring Yet?
As long as we won't see any movement due to hiring all over Canada, it is difficult to forecast
I would not bid on borek only but would keep looking around
I would not bid on borek only but would keep looking around
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Re: Is Borek Hiring Yet?
Dime a dozen now that they are loosing their MAT affiliation.
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gianthammer wrote:Dime a dozen now that they are loosing their MAT affiliation.
I figured a lot of them might stay in the Maldives. With a higher demand for pilots in the Maldives I figure with wages will most likely go up there.
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Re: Is Borek Hiring Yet?
While quite a few are staying in the Maldives, this is the transitional season between the usually insane summer,and the Antarctic season.
There was some hiring for DC3T captains, but mainly captaincies were filled from in-house this summer. There were contracts going begging in the rest of the world this past year that KBAL had no machines for. How this winter shapes up is more at the mercy of oil prices now I expect.
While saving a bit of money and effort by not sending in a resume would seem the sensible thing just now- several times KBAL has picked up a contract and needed a dozen drivers "like, yesterday!". Never know, your resume could go in just as the contract comes up.
Here's hoping.
JC
There was some hiring for DC3T captains, but mainly captaincies were filled from in-house this summer. There were contracts going begging in the rest of the world this past year that KBAL had no machines for. How this winter shapes up is more at the mercy of oil prices now I expect.
While saving a bit of money and effort by not sending in a resume would seem the sensible thing just now- several times KBAL has picked up a contract and needed a dozen drivers "like, yesterday!". Never know, your resume could go in just as the contract comes up.
Here's hoping.
JC
