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April 30, 2024


How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees

What began with optimism and enthusiasm has curdled into exploitation BY MICHELLE CYCAILLUSTRATION BY MARIAH MEAWASIGE / MAKOOSE NationTalk: the Walrus – IN FEBRUARY 2022, a twenty-one-year-old Ojibwe and Métis woman named Christine Paquette was job-hunting online. She clicked on a posting for an entry-level position in customer service at CIBC. The call for applications, which was...

January 8, 2024


Survey: Over Half of Indigenous Canadians Polled have Experienced Workplace Discrimination

62.4% HAVE EXPERIENCED BIAS WHEN APPLYING FOR JOBS NationTalk: TORONTO – ComIT.org, a registered charity that believes the democratization of education and opportunity is Canada’s best path forward, recently uncovered several startling statistics in a survey to 500 Canadians who identify as Indigenous Canadians. ComIT.org created the survey to take a pulse check of current...

November 15, 2023


Proof Point: Closing Canada’s infrastructure gap could boost Indigenous output by up to 17%

NationTalk: RBC Proof Point Stubborn employment gap between Indigenous & non-Indigenous population persists Unemployment rate, %, prime age population; off-reserve Source: Statistics Canada, RBC Economics Canada’s Indigenous populations grapple with a huge infrastructure gap It is well-known that Canada is one of the most educated countries in the world, with the second highest share of...

September 30, 2023


Is corporate sector listening to Indigenous business leaders?

Toronto Star: Businesses aren’t exempt from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to address the ongoing, centuries-long oppression of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The 94 calls to action cover everything from the constant removal of Indigenous children to non-Indigenous households, medical racism and the multi-generational damage done to survivors of the Canadian government’s genocidal residential...

November 17, 2022


Kahkewistahaw First Nation says Mosaic has shirked duty to consult while operating potash mines in Sask.

Chief Evan Taypotat says Mosaic failed to award millions of dollars in contracts to a First Nations business Alexander Quon · CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2022 4:05 PM CT | Last Updated: November 17 First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: Kahkewistahaw First Nation says the Mosaic Company has failed to “meaningfully consult” with the First Nation, even...

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