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Innovative food tracker uses app to help you live zero-waste
Industrial designers Altino Alex and Savin Dimov have just unveiled an innovative product geared towards helping families around the world reduce their food waste. The Bubble Food Tracker is an app-controlled food tracker that monitors products in your kitchen, keeping you aware of what you have in stock and your regular consumption habits, all…
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Blueprints for Success – Growing an eCommerce Business
Membertou, Shalene Johnson,a mother of 4, works full-time, does volunteer work in her community and also owns a small e-commerce business. She came to ICN with idea of launching her brick and mortar gift shop while growing her e-commerce business. Having gone through the discover process, Shaylene was accepted as an Entrepreneurial Intern in ICN…
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Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs’ Mindset is Different
Most entrepreneurs know that regardless of the owner’s cultural heritage, for a business to succeed it must be built on solid business practices with an added dose of luck. Many people recognize that female-owned businesses make a key contribution to household incomes and economic growth. However, for most Indigenous women when launching a business…
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Why Should a Buyer Choose You?
Ever had the feeling of banality when asked by a potential buyer — why should we choose your company to deliver the goods or services we need? Do you get the feeling every time you open your mouth to try to tell someone that your company is special and they should hire you because…
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Generating renewable energy from a wood floor
How do you make a renewable, natural, oxygen-producing, CO2-storing material even more sustainable? Make it as close to zero-waste as possible. Wood waste left over after milling lumber already gets put to myriad valuable uses, from paper products to biomass fuel, and a new innovation will actually enable it to produce clean energy. Engineers…
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Foresight: Interviews AWHRC
To start the Foresight method process we’ve asked in video interviews recognized subject experts to share their perspectives on eight questions. The interviewees were: Dr. Shannon MacDonald, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, First Nations Health Authority of BC; Cora-Lee McGuire-Cyrette, Executive Director, Ontario Native Women Association; and Erica Samms-Hurley, Nurse Educator, Western Regional School of Nursing, Grenfell Campus-Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner…
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Marketing Using Social Media
The INS and OUTS of Using Social Media to Generate Revenue Lisa McKenzie, founder of McKenzie Moxie Media and Chief Bliss Instigator.talks with host Business Entrepreneur and Advisor Jacques Pilon and with ICN’s Entrepreneurial Interns Shaylene Johnson, Jennifer Harper and Esther Stewart about the INS and OUTS of using social media to launch product or service and generate both…
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Selling Your Way to Launching Your Business
Launching a business often means working long hours to reach success. For many entrepreneurs, success has come after experiencing years of trial and error only then have they been able to figure out the secrets to success. In fact what they’ve done is learn on the job, persevere through highs and lows and acquired knowledge and…
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Request for Proposals
Status of Women Canada is inviting: women’s organizations whose primary objective is to advance gender equality for women in Canada; and, Indigenous organizations who are legally constituted non-for-profit organizations and whose work has a significant focus on advancing gender equality for Indigenous women in Canada; to submit proposals for projects under the Capacity-building Fund call for proposals. Under this Call…
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The PATH
The PATH – Communication Strategies for the Reconciliation Era RECONCILIATION – a great plan or a dirty word? So many are confused, so many are offended. What IS reconciliation anyways? Is it even possible? Sandi Boucher uses her personal, conversational, and comforting style to discuss this very hard subject. Known for speaking “to hearts…