Photo: Mary Simon receives the CCAB’s aboriginal relations award

Mary Simon, Canada’s first circumpolar ambassador and a lead negotiator for the creation of the Arctic Council, receives the 2014 award for excellence in aboriginal relations from the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, in a ceremony held Sept. 25 in Vancouver, at the CCAB’s annual gala. “Ms. Simon’s leadership is international in scope with northern interests at the heart of her extraordinary career,” the CCAB said. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CCAB)