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Building her Resilience While Creating a Sustainable Business
Tuesday Johnson-MacDonald 15-years in business as an Indigenous event organizer. Tuesday tells us about her success as an entrepreneur and in building her own resilience while creating a sustainable business.. Tuesday Johnson-MacDonald President Tap Resources
Making His Way in the Radio Industry
Meet Todd Bernard a Successful Aboriginal Entrepreneur in the Radio Industry Todd Bernard, talks with ICN Guy Dancause about how he made his way in the radio industry. Starting as a pilot reporting on traffic, to ownership of a rock station, and blues radio and...
Aboriginal Women Health Research Centre
ICN Research Project Report - One of the concerns frequently raised by Aboriginal women is the discrimination and neglect experienced when accessing health care services. In collaboration with the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), ICN produced a research...
Note to ICN Readers and Viewers
We have been building the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship online community at the Idea Connector Network since 2011. Over the years you’ve provided us feedback on your experience with your online community and we’ve responded by tweaking the delivery of content. We also...
Profile: POSITIVE THOUGHTS, POSITIVE RESULTS
Profile of a Successful Aboriginal Woman Dr. Shannon McDonald It took her a long time to acquire self-confidence, but once she did she trained as a physician, completing her MD in 1998 (at the tender age of 40), followed with post-graduate medical training in...
Start Your Business
Entrepreneurship is Management Creativity and imagination are characteristics of an entrepreneur. However, entrepreneurship is also management or processes. A panel of experts comes together at the I Do Business Atlantic Business Summit to discuss their experience...
Aboriginal Education Needs more than Money to Solve its Problems
Another point of view from an Educator of Educators Jon Bradley, shares his thoughts and experience with ICN's Guy Dancause on what needs to be fixed in the education system, if young Aboriginal students are to improve their chance to access a greater number of...
Panel 2: Aboriginal Women’s Health Resource Centre (AWHRC)
The Second Panel discussion on the subject of NWAC creating an Aboriginal Women's Health Research Centre was produced from the Idea Connector Network's studio Tuesday 6 December , 2016. The dialogue of 6 Dec is the fourth step in a process begun late October. On 22...
Disparities in Aboriginal Women’s Health: Part 3 & 4
Aboriginal Women's Health: Can parity be reached in health equity? These 3 subject experts are living the daily realities of gaps in Aboriginal health outcomes. Can those gaps be closed? Can health equity for Aboriginal women be achieved? What if there was a new...
Disparities in Aboriginal Women’s health outcomes
Is it reasonable to think that creating an Aboriginal Women Health Research Centre could play a major role in improving Aboriginal women's health? Do you agree: We need to find ways to close the disparities in Aboriginal Women's health outcomes? How should that...
Selling to Government: Finding the Right Path
If you are looking to sell to government or to grow your sales, you will want to hear Peter share his vast knowledge on the ABCs of selling to government and on its procurement process. Peter is a retired Executive from the government of Canada where he has held many...
Memski: Creating Economic Growth for Mi’kmaw People
Memski is connecting Mi'kmaw people, skills and projects. With Sheila we talk about how Minski brings the resources needed for the Mi'kmaw people and contractors to provide services to build the Maritime Link project, a transmission system that includes 180-kilometre...
Passion, Struggle & Victory of Aboriginal Peoples
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) achieves a milestone in 2016 as it celebrates its 45th anniversary. CAP has played a crucial role in advocating for the rights and interests of Métis and non-status Indians living off-reserve. Since 1971 the battles have been...
Change Is An Opportunity
Indigenous author, inspirational speaker, master facilitator and award winning entrepreneur Sandi Boucher talks about change. Like it or not, it's going to happen, you cannot be complacent, or live in a twilight zone in front of change. By viewing this video you'll...
Social Media Marketing
Lisa believes that all individuals and businesses need a compelling and dynamic online presence to ensure that current, future clients and partners can find them, get to know them, develop trusting relationships with them and ultimately do business with them. She is...
Escaping Poverty in the Ring of Fire
Elsie talks about the future of her community. To reduce her community’s poverty condition it requires sustained support. Without a dependable constant flow of funds it's next to impossible to plan for education, training and development programs needed to...
Best Practices for Business
A Business panel Q & A that leads to some very helpful answers. A panel of experts comes together at the I Do Business Atlantic Business Summit to discuss their experience in starting and growing a business. They discuss issues such as the need to know what is...
Renewable Energy Project
Trials and tribulations of business development Chief Hare talks trials and tribulations of business development projects for his community; and how the Mother Earth Renewable Energy (MERE) project in M’Chigeeng First Nation is producing lucrative results for the...