Search Results for: Metis
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...Nations population), 57 projects with a majority of Métis children (approximately 19 percent of the Métis population), and 31 projects serving a majority of Inuit children (approximately 21percent of the...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
Levelling the Playing Field: For First Nations and Financial Empowerment
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...First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities in developing financial literacy skills. The paper provides background that helped guide the discussion at the last in a series of roundtables convened in...
Date: Thursday May 7, 2015
Mapping the Landscape: Indigenous Skills Training and Jobs in Canada
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Indigenous businesses are growing and — importantly — creating employment for others. Further, self-employment and entrepreneurship is increasing. If there is an opportunity for the next generation, and for current adult workers, to leapfrog into the future of Canadian work, it may very well be through Indigenous-led business.
Date: Thursday June 25, 2020
A Labour Force Paradigm Shift
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...calls to action. He committed that PLATO would become staffed, led and eventually owned by First Nations, Inuit or Métis people. McIntosh himself is not Indigenous. He was adopted into...
Date: Tuesday October 11, 2022
Searching for Innovation? Look North!
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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is looking for paths forward to build back better. After a year of invaluable lessons learned, what do we know? What do we want to strengthen? What are we willing to change? What are the assets and building blocks for a stronger future?
Date: Tuesday March 30, 2021
Primary Care for Everyone
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...These to-dos are really the must-dos. They demand leadership and substantial, collaborative work by an array of players, including provincial, territorial and federal cabinet ministers, First Nations, Inuit and Metis...
Date: Wednesday March 29, 2023
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
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
Building Leaders: Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities
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...the summer of 2014, Canada’s Public Policy Forum launched a national initiative to improve ECD in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. Building Leaders: Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities...
Date: Tuesday July 14, 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
Northwest Territories Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...is located on the traditional lands of Yellowknives Dene First Nation (Chief Drygeese Territory), and more recently acknowledged as the homelands of the North Slave Métis Alliance. It is the...
Date: Thursday May 5, 2022
How Canada can create a culture of innovation
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...to commit to improved educational outcomes for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Where Canada’s OECD quality of life ranking is 6th, it drops to 63rd for indigenous communities. The...
Date: Thursday October 20, 2016
May 9, 2014: Realizing The Potential: Global Perspectives on Indigenous Economic Development
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There is a clear need for better engagement with Canada’s First Nations, Inuit and Métis on natural resource development. The sector’s future success will depend on authentic partnerships with Aboriginal...
Date: Friday May 9, 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