January 17, 2025

700 Indigenous jobs at risk if fisheries minister closes more BC salmon farms

A coalition of First Nations in British Columbia, Canada, has urged the federal government to extend a consultation about a proposed “transi...

January 17, 2025

4 Ways Residential Schools Continue to Impact Canada's Indigenous People

Residential schools were a system of government- and church-run institutions designed to assimilate Indigenous populations into Euro-Canadia...

January 17, 2025

B.C. First Nation partners to build Canada’s biggest battery factory

The Malahat Nation is now less than 90 days away from having shovels in the ground on what will be Canada’s first Indigenous-led gigafactory...

January 17, 2025

UNDERSTANDING THE UNDERLYING FACTORS OF INDIGENOUS POVERTY IN CANADA

Indigenous poverty in Canada is a generational problem that has lowered living standards and created wide gaps in financial security and lit...

January 17, 2025

Labour Market Experiences of First Nations people living off reserve: Key findings from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey

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January 17, 2025

Growing tension' inside the public service over Indigenous self-identification

Indigenous Services Canada's top official addressed the "contentious issue" of Indigenous identity in the public service by urging greater h...

January 17, 2025

Labour market impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous people living off reserve in the provinces: March 2020 to August 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant health and socio-economic impacts among First Nations, Métis, Inuit and non-Indigenous p...

January 17, 2025

Canfor transfers forest tenure in B.C. to 2 First Nations

Forestry giant Canfor sold its licence to log B.C.'s fourth-largest timber supply area to two First Nations on Monday. It sold its tenure...

January 17, 2025

Resource Sector Provides Highest Paying Jobs for Indigenous Workers in Canada

CALGARY, AB, Feb. 27, 2023 /CNW/ - Data from Census 2021 show that the extractive resource sectors, and the oil and gas sector specifically,...

January 17, 2025

Indigenous employment centre receives ‘life-changing’ cash from feds

An organization in Vancouver says it will be able to expand its programming for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in British Columbia af...