Indigenous Business

Brian Young didn't let misguided advice deter him from making his company a success. Instead, it inspired him. “I was told because I was native, I would not succeed,” said the owner of Young Forestry Services .

Wahgoshig First Nation is open to doing business with resource companies, but one mining executive is off the list.

A progressive First Nation credits leadership – and location – as key to establishing the entrepreneurial spirit in its members.

Mining industry reps discussed actively engaging Indigenous communities during a February panel discussion in Sudbury.

The Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund (NADF) is teaming up with Lac Seul First Nation to promote micro-loans to aspiring entrepreneurs in northwestern Ontario.

Lobster bisque, cassoulet, chicken marsala, jäger schnitzel: the list of gastronomical offerings at Musselwhite Mine reads more like the menu of an internationally renowned restaurant than that of a mining operation in the isolated reaches of Norther

Aboriginal youth in northwestern Ontario are getting a head-start on training opportunities in the mining industry.

Some days Jean Paul (J.P.) Gladu rolls out of bed and wonders what he's gotten himself into.

Crisis is a word Canadians are hearing lately in terms of Northern First Nation communities. But the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) said many of its communities face an annual crisis when it comes to its energy supply.

For many years, Constance Lake First Nation simply stood by and watched the world go by. Now the community is doing the exact opposite. The Northern Ontario reserve is in what it calls, a “participation stage.