Discusses the progress of Nunavut’s socio-economic goals and the challenges in advancing their economic and social objectives while coping with economic, social and environmental changes.
Canada's Labour Force Survey in 2005 separated off-reserve data into "Indian," Metis and Inuit, analyses of these data indicated 2.5 times higher rates of employment of non-Aboriginal than of Aboriginal peoples.
Environment and Planning A, vol. 40, no. 3, March 2008, pp. 676-695
Description
Attempts to assess the usability of Massey and Denton's five-dimensional structure of segregation for the study of settlement patterns of Aboriginal people in Canadian cities.
Saskatchewan Economic Boom: Challenges and Opportunities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gary Tompkins
Description
Presenter discusses the importance of developing public policy to increase Aboriginal participation in the economy, statistical overview of current situation, and issues surrounding the political will to address the problem.
Looks at an initiative launched in 1991 by Indian and Northern Affairs and the Treasury Board Secretariat to increase the participation of Aboriginal people in the labour market.
Looks at the reliability and technical issues derived from the retrieval of the data relating to population, education, labour force, employment, and employment earnings.
Outlines structure of the program and makes recommendations to increase participation of First Nations and Métis in residential construction industry. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Description
Interview with Adelard Blackman, special emissary for Chief Elmer Campbell and the people of Buffalo River Dene Nations, regarding the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Demographics provided include, health, education, social conditions, housing, self government of First Nations and Canadians living north of the 60th parallel.
Paper examines the stages of the Life Long Learning continuum from a Métis perspective. The roundtable on this topic was held November 13th and 14th, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba and November 18th and 19th, 2004, Ottawa, Ontario.
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 283-302
Description
Discusses how Indigenous soldiers, who performed the same labor tasks as white soldiers, were institutionally marginalized and distanced as a second-class.
Case Study (Conference Board of Canada) ; December 2004
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 693-04]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alison Campbell]
Description
Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 15
Description
Describes the success of graduates of Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Construction Careers, Women in Trades program.
Article located by scrolling to page 15.
Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations Career Pathing Pilot Project Symposium. October 8-9, 2008, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Presents 38 tables and graphs.
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 30, no. 3, 2004, pp. [283]-301
Description
Used the 1995 National Graduates Survey along with followup survey in 1997 to examine school-to-work transitions, using variables such as gender, ethnic status, qualification granted, etc.