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A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk
By Janice McDonald, and Clare Berckon Last summer, as part of our study to ascertain how women entrepreneurs look at risk, we crossed Canada asking entrepreneurs about their approach to risk in their businesses. We wanted to test the oft quoted assumption that female entrepreneurs are risk averse. As we spoke to predominately female entrepreneurs…
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Communications with Indigenous Peoples
In this presentation delivered at IPAC’s 2nd Leadership Creative Presentation we learn about ‘Storytelling’ and how it is use to convey traditional teachings, oral history, oratory and in transmitting the interpretation of public and current affairs on Turtle Island Dr. Mary Lou Smoke and Dr. Dan Smoke Communicators, Radio hosts and Professors To view…
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Creating a Leadership Culture
By Lana Binning Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he has the potential to become and you make him better than he is.– Goethe If we are taught effective habits but are then placed into a defective habitat (culture), one that is unfriendly, unsafe,…
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Dawn Lavell Harvard President NWAC
Denise Anne Boissoneau speaks with Dawn Lavell-Harvard about her career, NWAC perspective of Aboriginal Women’s Issues and Dawn share her views on NWAC and the future of women’s issues To view your digital magazine Click here
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Foresight – What if Aboriginal Youth were Offered Means to Achieve their Full Potential?
In the context of a 2015 Foresight Exercise “A Framework for Building Relationships” (to see report click here) , we have asked 8 Aboriginal personalities to share their views on eight questions. The fourth question was: “What if Aboriginal Youth were Offered means to Achieve their Full Potential?” Bob Crane and panel ATCO Structures and…
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Foresight – What if Canada’s ice cap melted quickly and completely?
In the context of a 2015 Foresight Exercise “A Framework for Building Relationships” (see report in right column) , we have asked 8 Aboriginal personalities to share their views on eight questions. The third question was: “What if Canada’s ice cap melted so quickly and completely, that the methane gas released reached levels that threatened arctic…
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Sustainable Development and Capabilities for the Polar Region
By: Umut Riza Ozkhan – Stephan Schott Abstract The paper develops a sustainable development framework for individual and collective capabilities in mixed subsistence and wage-based economies. We apply this framework to such regions of the Arctic and evaluate interactions and conflicts between two sectors of the mixed economy and between current and future generations…
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A Force to Reckon With: Women Entrepreneurship and Risk
By: Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership, Carleton University Despite the dominant rhetoric that woman are risk-averse, the number of female entrepreneurs has more than doubled in the last two decades. Conclusions: The Way Forward Nevertheless, there are still some challenges (e.g., access to funding) discouraging women from starting and growing their own…
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Apprenticeship in the resource sector
Preparing human resources to benefit from opportunities made available through the development of natural resources Christina Jones Apprenticeship Officer Wii-ni n’guch-tood LDM
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Education for Entre-Intrapreneurs
Teaching entrepreneurship and making it safe to learn from failure helps prepare people to create their own jobs as entrepreneurs or to become “intrapreneurs” for their future employers. Cheryl Jensen, President, Algonquin College