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  • Access to Equal Opportunities

    Access to Equal Opportunities

    Although there is momentum within the Aboriginal community when it comes to employment, education and economic prosperity more needs to be done at the corporate level to ensure cultural inclusion. Monique Bateman Special Advisor on Aboriginal Relations TD Bank To view additional content on the 2nd Annual Creative Leaders’ Symposium click Symposium  Please, share…

  • A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk

    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…

  • Creating a Leadership Culture

    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,…

  • Tax Tips for Business Owners

    Tax Tips for Business Owners

    By Carol Ann Budd Maximize the ‘Harvest of your Business by Minimizing’ your Income Taxes. As an entrepreneur, operating your day-to-day business and planning for the future can consume a lot of your time.  Paying less tax, although important, may not always be on top of your mind. There’s no time like the present to…

  • Indigenous Housing Factory & Housing Excellence

    Indigenous Housing Factory & Housing Excellence

    Fisher River Cree Nation is a progressive Manitoba First Nation located approximately 200km north of Winnipeg. This video explores the groundbreaking partnership between Fisher River and ATCO Sustainable Communities. The project will see the construction of a 40,000 sq ft RTM Housing Factory in Fisher River, which will produce 144 homes per year. It…

  • Obstacles of Business and Culture

    Obstacles of Business and Culture

    Culture is important to today’s economic development as it is to help keep people grounded while navigating the realities of the modern world. Chief Clarence Louie Osoyoos Indian Band, and CEO of the Osoyoos Indian Band Development Corporation

  • Meet Marie-Cecile Nottaway the Algonquin Martha Stewart

    Meet Marie-Cecile Nottaway the Algonquin Martha Stewart

    Marie-Cecile (Cezin) Nottaway… one of only seven 2016 Award recipients in the Province of Quebec She gently pulls canoes out of fortune-cookie dough, bakes a mean bannock and does not shy away from roasting a beaver. Martha Stewart, eat your heart out— or Marie-Cecile Nottaway will do it for you. It”s how Martha Troian wrote…

  • Is Business For You?

    Is Business For You?

    Candice reflects on obstacles she had to face as an Aboriginal Entrepreneur. In her view, entrepreneurs must possess three key attributes for success: people skills, education and a willingness to constantly hunt for the next opportunity. Candice Holmstrom, President, CH Designs Inc.

  • Sustainable Development and Capabilities for the Polar Region

    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…

  • Event Management

    Event Management

    Key to successful event management is a collaborative outlook, the creation of partnerships and the building of relationships. Michelle Boivin Co-Owner AMR Events Inc.