CanNor Helps Inuvialuit Assess Gas
CanNor Helps Inuvialuit Assess Gas Navdeep Bains, Minister responsible for CanNor, recently announced an investment to support a feasibility study of natural gas development in the Beaufort Delta region of the Northwest Territories. The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) is leading this project. This Indigenous-owned corporation seeks to lower living costs for local residents and businesses […]
Territory Eyes Trade Corridor Fund
Territory Eyes Trade Corridor Fund Marc Garneau, federal Minister of Transport, recently highlighted the importance of transportation for people living in the North during his trip to Yellowknife. The Minister emphasized the need to address transportation challenges, such as accessibility to markets, difficult terrain and climate conditions and the high cost of construction along Canada’s […]
Potash Potential
Over the last nine years, the Muskowekwan First Nation, 140 kilometres northeast of Regina, Sask., has been hatching a plan to create dozens of businesses, hundreds of jobs and an enormous amount of wealth. Just as the Fort McKay First Nation in Alberta is surrounded by vast quantities of oil, Muskowekwan is surrounded by vast […]
Profile: Small’s Expediting & General Services
Hauling food, equipment and people to the many remote work sites around Yukon takes rugged persistence. Keeping customers happy with your service takes an aim to please.These are the qualities that Small’s Expediting & General Services fosters in its employees according to operations manager Stuart Murray.“We take a lot of pride in getting things done […]
A Tech Boon in Every Grain
It’s all in the sand, or more accurately, the silica sand.Also called quartz sand, silica sand is mostly silicon dioxide (SiO2), and is the essential ingredient for many of the technological necessities of modern life. It’s plentiful and easy to mine so offers ready supplies of silica for the glassmaking industry, silicon for hundreds of […]
Opinion: A Partnership Imperative
In October 2017, a survey with over 500 Canadian medium and large businesses revealed an alarming finding: that 85 per cent of Canadian businesses are in no way engaged with Indigenous communities. Survey data indicated an average Partnership Index score of only 13/100. The new report commissioned by Indigenous Works and prepared by R.A. Malatest […]
A Youthful Approach to Resources
Indigenous youth are the fastest growing segment of the Canadian population. According to Statistics Cana da, the average age of the Aboriginal population was 32.1 years in 2016 – almost a decade younger than the non-Aboriginal population of 40.9 years. Many of these will soon be leaders with growing authority over their traditional lands, bringing […]
Uneasy Lies the Coast
The town of Kitimat, perched on the B.C. coast between the mountains and the ocean, began as a provincially sponsored industrial project in the 1950s. The government of the time invited the Aluminum Company of Canada, better known as Alcan, to build a hydro-electric generation station, an aluminum smelter, a transmission system and, to connect […]
Gauging the Aboriginal Economy
As one of Canada’s fastest growing demographics, the Aboriginal population and the economy it represents is increasingly important to businesses and governments alike. As of the 2016 Census there were 1,673,785 Aboriginal people in Canada, accounting for 4.9 per cent of the total population. This was up from 3.8 per cent in 2006 and 2.8 […]
Profile: Golder Associates Ltd, Healing the Land
Since the 1970s, engineering and consulting firm Golder Associates Ltd. has worked in the Yukon. As the number of projects in Kaska traditional territory grew, they formed a joint venture with the Liard First Nation Development Corporation in 2007. The name of the new venture was called Kēyeh Nejéh Golder Corporation (KNG). “Kēyeh Nejéh means […]
