About Us

We're a Métis owned and led communication business focused on cultivating dialogue for people who share our concern for the water, in order to create an equitable environment.

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Have you ever been in a canoe when the paddlers aren’t communicating? Let me paint you a picture, you’re canoeing in a river with your best friend. It’s your first time in the canoe, so when you get in, you both paddle on the right side because that’s your strong arm. You quickly start going into the river bank to the left. Your best friend begins to panic, so starts paddling backwards, smashing their paddle against yours. In frustration, you start paddling forward on the other side, as she continues to paddle backward on the right. You begin to turn in circles. You’re stuck. It’s impossible to get where you're going. 

 

But then you take a moment to pause. You calm yourself and your best friend, and begin to talk. “If we each paddle on opposite sides and share a similar pace, we’ll paddle forward.” If you take a moment, communicate effectively, divide roles, and trust your boatmate to perform according to their responsibilities, the canoe can become a powerful instrument. The canoe has been used for generations - the primary vehicle for trade for millenia - and not just in Turtle Island/North America. Used intentionally, the canoe has the capacity to bring people together, to create equitable dialogue, and to teach people about teamwork, shared responsibility, and relationship to the lands and waters.

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We support innovators and leaders from all walks of life: Artists, academics, public servants, politicians, corporate professionals, humanitarians, and many more. We want to partner with you to help your work reach its fullest potential in contributing to social and ecological wellness. We bring cross-sectoral expertise and ancestral wisdom to enhance your work’s overall impact.

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Our mission is to provide a place of open and equitable dialogue to guide clients in envisioning a future with land, water, community, and holistic well-being at the centre. We foster relationship-building between people and the land through uplifting Indigenous knowledge systems, and prioritizing integrative experiences and well-being of the water.

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Above all else, we value creativity, ingenuity, collaboration and sustainability in our work and our relationships. By upholding our values, we hope to support you in further developing socially and ecologically responsible policy, projects and programming.