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Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot

...Nations and Inuit Child Care Initiative (FNICCI) across Inuit Nunangat, p. 4. https://www.itk.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2014_Report_FNICCI_Impacts_Inuit_Nunangat.pdf#:~:text=Quality%2C%20Inuit%20early%20child%20care%20programs%20are%20vital,regional%20economies%20across%20Inuit%20Nunangat.%20This%20document%20will%3A ↑ Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. (2017). Inuit Submission to Employment and Social Development Canada Regarding National Indigenous Early...

Date: Friday May 6, 2022


Legitimacy in Reconciliation: A Path Forward

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


Levelling the Playing Field: For First Nations and Financial Empowerment

...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


A Labour Force Paradigm Shift

...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


Take the 2018 PPF Holiday Quiz!

What's your wonk score? From 12 months of PPF policy events and projects, we've come up with 12 questions to challenge you. Take our Holiday Quiz.

Date: Tuesday December 18, 2018


Building Leaders: Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities

...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


Audra Reyni: Putting an invisible disability on the map

...percent of Inuit children suffer from hearing loss. Renyi has applied her strengths in finance to hearing loss. In 2014 she founded earAccess Inc., a for-profit social enterprise that provides...

Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017


Ten Tough Jobs 2010

...Fisheries and Oceans Assistant Deputy Minister, Consular Services and Emergency Management, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations & Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada Assistant Deputy Minister,...

Date: Tuesday October 19, 2010


Project of the Century

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


Primary Care for Everyone

...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


How Canada can create a culture of innovation

...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


Putting an invisible disability on the map

...Inuit children suffer from hearing loss. Renyi has applied her strengths in finance to hearing loss. In 2014 she founded earAccess Inc., a for-profit social enterprise that provides affordable hearing...

Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017


How One Indigenous Service Agency Is Fighting COVID and Winning

"We're going to send our helpers in and we're not going to stop." The Kenora Chiefs Advisory, an Indigenous-led health and social services agency, got to work right away in the nine First Nations it serves to stop COVID from entering. And so far, it's worked.

Date: Tuesday December 15, 2020


We Want Real Partnership

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


May 9, 2014: Realizing The Potential: Global Perspectives on Indigenous Economic Development

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