Indigenous Peoples
Blog
Reconciliation demands learning and closing the gaps in Indigenous labour opportunities
Indigenous peoples compose 4.9% of the total Canadian population, as of 2016. However, we have experienced significant growth in our numbers recently, with an increase...
Research
Readiness and Resilience: Mapping the Contours of the Indigenous Skills and Employment Ecosystem in Canada
In collaboration with our partners, Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) created the Readiness and Resilience: Mapping the Contours of the Indigenous Skills and Employment Ecosystem report as part of a project on Indigenous people’s barriers to and facilitators of employment in Canada to learn about the scope of the Indigenous employment landscape.
Research
Experiences of Discrimination at Work
Discrimination in the workplace has been a prevalent issue in Canada, and the problem seems to have been intensifying in the years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research
Indigenous finance and management professionals: critical for reconciliation and indigenous self-determination
Indigenous skilled labour is critical to realizing this new vision of economic reconciliation. Indigenous finance and management professionals can help their communities navigate the new and increasingly complex economic relationships.
In the Media
Canada needs a net-zero workforce to reach a net-zero future
Pedro Barata, Wendy Cukier & John McNally, Canada’s National Observer — Jun 21, 2022
In the Media
There is a skills gap and the future of work will require stronger soft skills, study shows
Radhika Panjwani, The Globe and Mail — Jun 12, 2022
Project
Tech-enabled learning programs for the mining industry
Project will be three two-week unique, demand-driven, and blended-learning training programs using VR, eLearning, simulations and in-field competency assessment. Final equipment selection will be aligned to meet the demand-driven needs of the industry partners.
Project
InTeRN: a young, northern workforce enters the world of ICT
A two-year network computer technology program geared to providing entry level skills and supports to Indigenous youth in Northern Manitoba.
Blog
Indigenous women thrive in northern Manitoba tech training program
When Brenda Bignell first enrolled in a program in The Pas, Manitoba to improve her tech skills, she says she didn’t even know where to...