Indigenous Business

Peter Moses to receive Skookum Jim Award in March

Aboriginal Business Match East attracts businesses interested in doing business with Aboriginal enterprise.

Origin Operator Recruitment and Training have trained approximately 150 people since setting up shop six years ago, and now supply semi-skilled on-demand labour while acting as First Nation engagement specialists.

Missinabie Cree First Nation has been granted $200,000 from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund presented six awards during its annual awards dinner.

Agreement will see more flights into the remote community

Former Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford has signed on as a “strategic advisor” to a northwestern Ontario First Nations consulting business. In a Sept. 15 news release, Darren Harper, co-founder of Maawandoon Inc.

Aboriginal Tourism Ontario (ATO) announced it will be rebranded as Indigenous Tourism Ontario, while simultaneously revealing its inaugural board of directors.

First Nations-owned Wataynikaneyap Power LP (Watay) has been selected by the Ontario government to connect 16 remote communities in northwestern Ontario to the province’s electrical grid.

The Frontenac open pit may have limited gold potential, but it’s perfect ground for the type of real-world training that Randy Becker wants to provide for First Nations.