2016 Profile of the Indigenous Population in Surrey
Statistics on age, family profile, housing, mobility, language, income, employment and labour force, and commuting.
Related Material: 2021 Profile of the Indigenous Population in Surrey
Statistics on age, family profile, housing, mobility, language, income, employment and labour force, and commuting.
Related Material: 2021 Profile of the Indigenous Population in Surrey
Discusses the barriers and lack of community engagement in a job program designed to improve employment for underrepresented groups in British Columbia.
Compilation of primary sources, mainly newspaper articles.
Authors note that Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy does not address social determinants of health (childhood environments, gender, Indigenous status, income, education and occupation) as root causes of poor diet quality; they suggest that a reduction of diet inequities will require policy change.
Results organized under six headings: demographics, language and culture, education and training, skills and work readiness, labour market indicators, and workplace wellbeing and culture.
Results from 1,350 individuals living in 25 communities. Respondents were asked questions about employment, income, ability to meet expenses, retirement, cultural practices, First Nations language skills, and physical health.
Discusses existing social enterprises generally as well as Indigenous initiatives and organizations, identifies challenges, obstacles in promoting Aboriginal participation and common characteristics of best practices, makes recommendations for courses of action and solutions, and lists specific proposals for the Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale.
Addresses the issue of individuals at the university benefiting from fraudulent claims of Indigenous identity.
Discusses the idea of Indigeneering, engineering from an Indigenous perspective, being used to increase participation and awareness of engineering in Indigenous communities.