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Do the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals apply to Canadian Indigenous communities?
The Sustainable Development Goals

How do you find Indigenous workers for off-reserve and urban projects?
Years ago, I was standing on a street corner in Saskatoon waiting for the light to change early one morning. I saw a young Indigenous

Project Complexity Is Not a Barrier to Indigenous Participation
You may view your industrial projects as being too technical and complicated to introduce an Indigenous workforce. Perhaps your team has not been trained in

You have no indigenous employees or advisors
Your company may have heard that having indigenous partners is a desirable business model, but you do not know where to go or who to

Not identifying the opportunity gap between community capacity and project needs
Often, project leaders do not identify community capacity or project trade needs because those elements are not in their contract scope. As a result, there

5 reasons you will fail to engage Indigenous people on construction projects, Part II
3. Not identifying project labour needs early. Most First Nations do not have a list of the trades required for construction projects early enough, so