Search Results for: First Nations
First Nations Finance Authority (Ernie Daniels, CEO): By fixing finance rules, First Nations can invest in themselves
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The First Nations Finance Authority is being honored as a Governor General Innovation Award recipient on May 23 for their ground-breaking innovative funding regime that reduces borrowing cuts and provides interest rate security for First Nations communities across the country.
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Bringing New Voices to the Table: Re-thinking On-reserve Housing in Canada
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...First Nations communities a contributing factor to many of the numerous social challenges facing First Nations. The challenges and successes of housing on First Nations reserves is incredibly complex and...
Date: Monday February 27, 2017
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...Paper 49, The Debate on First Nations Education Funding: Mind the Gap. Queen’s University. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/14846/Drummond_et_al_2013_Debate_on_First_Nations.pdf?sequence=1; and Assembly of First Nations (n.d.). Fact sheet: First Nations Education Funding. https://www.afn.ca/uploads/files/education/fact_sheet_-_fn_education_funding_final.pdf ↑ See...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
Levelling the Playing Field: For First Nations and Financial Empowerment
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A new background paper from the Public Policy Forum, Levelling the Playing Field: For First Nations and Financial Empowerment provides views from diverse Canadian leaders about opportunities and challenges facing...
Date: Thursday May 7, 2015
The Opportunity for Indigenous Infrastructure
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Well-planned, reliable infrastructure is essential to the well-being of all communities. Despite major policy challenges, Indigenous people, companies and governments are closing the infrastructure gap by advancing successful equity infrastructure projects across the country. Canada should follow these examples.
Date: Thursday September 3, 2020
Roundtable series on Enhancing First Nations Access to Capital
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...Nations fiscal relationship · Improve First Nation governance processes and capabilities · Invest in First Nations’ education and training · Foster and support regional cooperation to create a more attractive...
Date: Tuesday December 23, 2014
Legitimacy in Reconciliation: A Path Forward
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Indigenous youth had clear ideas on how to find the legitimacy needed for reconciliation at the Public Policy Forum's (PPF) Nov. 29 unconference in Regina. This report highlights their six recommendations. In August 2017, the Centre for Public Impact approached PPF to be a part of a global project that explores What is legitimacy? How is it achieved and preserved? How does it manifest in different parts of the world? PPF brought together 21 young Indigenous people to discuss if the Government of Canada has the legitimacy to deliver on its commitment to Indigenous Peoples and how it can work to build the trust and transparency required.
Date: Tuesday May 15, 2018
Project of the Century
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Electricity demand is forecast to double by 2050. To meet it, supply will have to grow an astounding two to three times today’s volume. Here’s a roadmap for how to meet this urgent nation-building goal.
Date: Wednesday July 19, 2023
Harold Calla – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
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“Providing the platform to move from managing poverty to managing wealth”
Date: Tuesday January 17, 2023
The Missing Article
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Since 2021, 65 bilateral agreements involving 45 countries have been reached under Article 6 of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change. Canada is not among them.
Date: Thursday November 30, 2023
How One Indigenous Service Agency Is Fighting COVID and Winning
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"We're going to send our helpers in and we're not going to stop." The Kenora Chiefs Advisory, an Indigenous-led health and social services agency, got to work right away in the nine First Nations it serves to stop COVID from entering. And so far, it's worked.
Date: Tuesday December 15, 2020
Sharing in the Benefits of Resource Developments: A Study of First Nations-Industry Impact Benefits Agreements
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This report describes and analyzes the role of the Impact and Benefits Agreements (IBA) in the resource development process with particular emphasis on understanding whose interests are at play, how...
Date: Thursday May 18, 2006
We Want Real Partnership
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In April 2020, the Energy Future Forum convened a plenary session on the critical importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and full Indigenous participation and ownership in Canada’s energy development. The following is a blended transcript edited for clarity and conciseness of Indigenous economic leaders Alicia Dubois, Tabatha Bull, Mark Podlasly, J.P. Gladu and Kim Baird. These leaders spoke about their vision for economic reconciliation, the challenge of access to capital and the opportunity UNDRIP presents to catalyze economic development by making real partnership a prerequisite for any project to move forward in Canada.
Date: Friday July 16, 2021
John Risley – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
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John Risley: "We wanted someone who would be a good steward for the business. And that led us very quickly to First Nations"
Date: Thursday January 26, 2023
Improving access to capital for Canada’s First Nation communities
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This report examines six broad recommendations that emerged from the discussions that could form the basis of a practical, multi-stakeholder response: modernize the federal-First Nations fiscal relationship; improve First Nation governance processes and capabilities; invest in First Nations' education and training; foster and support regional cooperation to create a more attractive investment climate; strengthen Aboriginal Financial Institutions; and improve financial literacy and education opportunities.
Date: Wednesday February 17, 2016