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Aboriginal Futures
Profile Series: Scott & Trent Young
Trent and Scott Young are two Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs and business leaders who are proving that Indigenous entrepreneurs can be successful in all sorts of business ventures, including ones that are not tied to an Indigenous cultural focus. There is still a...
Atlantic First Nations Chiefs’ Wage Disparity
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Profile Series – Lenny O’Meara
Lenny O’Meara – an Indigenous Australian entrepreneur and business leader – believes that Indigenous people can make a living by adding value to activities they have always done. “For Indigenous people, gubinge is a good source of income and if it’s managed right it...
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Decoupling and Reshoring From China will be Hard: China Holds Most of the Cards
Several factors have merged to induce Western governments and the firms they preside over, to find substitute supply chains for China-dominant ones that they now depend on. These factors include growing public revulsion at the repressive and persecutory policies the...
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
In 1970 Milton Friedman, a Nobel Laureate, in his article to the New York Times (The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits) proposed that an enterprise’s primary and sole responsibility was to the shareholder through the maximization of profits....
Freedom Is The Destiny Of Native Canadians: Poll says First Nations desire elected grand chiefs
A poll conducted by Frontier Centre reveals there is a hunger out in Indian Country for more democracy, starting with an elected grand chief in each province.
Salary Abuses Do Not End With Disclosure Rules: Accountability lies in good oversight.
While rules for salary disclosure increase visibility and transparency, they do not stop executive salary abuse in some cases. But if such rules do not solve all of the problems of salary abuse, they provide necessary transparency to those who would make executives accountable.
Private Property Is Nothing To Fear: First Nation should debate property on merits
An economic study of successful First Nations is being held in suspicion through erroneous thinking about the notion of private property.
Natives Fear Ottawa Aiming To Convert Reserves To Private Land Ownership: Federal study of successful reserves with rent-paying businesses prompts some bands to raise alarm over resource rights
“Ottawa has quietly ordered a study of Canada’s most economically successful first nations, raising the prospect of a new approach to developing businesses on reserves while sparking fear among some native leaders that their rights to land and resources are at risk.”
After the Indian Act: First Nations need something better
It is great that the leader of the Assembly of First Nations is calling for an end to the Indian Act, but that is only the start of the conversation as the important part is to replace it with a better system.
First Nation Fraud Case Encouraging
A case involving fraudulent use of treaty land entitlement money on one Saskatchewan First Nation shows there is plenty of work to do in ensuring governance and better democracy for Native communities.
‘Real Warriors Hold Jobs’
“Whatever we agree, or don’t, about the history of Canadian aboriginals, or about their current station, and what they do or don’t need, are or aren’t entitled to, we can all surely concede one fact: For thousands of years, Indians in North America — or, if you prefer, Turtle Island — somehow managed to get by. How well? That, like everything else, is up for interpretation.”
Tribal Sovereignty and The Independent Republic of Lakota
Russell Means speaks on Anti-War Radio about the Lakota withdrawing from from their treaties with the United States. September 10, 2010. (33 minutes) Listen here.
East Side Still The Best Bet: All-weather-road would advance First Nation economies
Rather than build costly hydro lines on the west side of Lake Winnipeg,the Manitoba government should build these lines on the east side and expand a direct all-weather-road system there at the same time.