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Fall 2024/Natural Capital

Great Bear Sea’s blueprint for doing business with nature

by Arno Kopecky

On British Columbia’s north coast, First Nations are harnessing conservation finance to build a new economy

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Leadership/Summer 2024

Indigenous knowledge keepers take their clean energy expertise abroad

by Natalie Alcoba

Indigenous Peoples in Canada have become renewable-energy powerhouses. Now they’re using their knowledge to help Indigenous communities across the world.

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Indigenous leader blazes trail to Bank of Canada board

by Shawn McCarthy

Ernie Daniels shares his journey to becoming the first First Nations leader appointed to the Bank of Canada’s board of directors

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Leadership/Spring 2023

How Indigenous Nations are leading the conservation-based economy

by Ntawnis Piapot

Indigenous leaders are creating wide-reaching protected areas, while smaller-scale businesses generate good-paying green jobs

Cheekbone Beauty proves representation matters
Leadership/Spring 2021

Cheekbone cosmetics proves beauty more than skin-deep

by Shilpa Tiwari

Despite the pandemic, Jenn Harper’s start-up saw a 350% spike in revenue in 2020 by boosting Indigenous representation

Raven Indigenous Capital
Leadership/Spring 2021

Raven Indigenous Capital helps entrepreneurs take flight

by Shilpa Tiwari

Métis negotiator turned venture capitalist Jeff Cyr is decolonizing the investment process and increasing the profile of Indigenous innovations

Food/Spring 2021

Mi’kmaq lead billion-dollar sea change

by Oscar Baker III

As Mi’kmaq become part owners of North America’s largest shellfish supplier, they vow to improve Clearwater’s sustainability record

Leadership/Spring 2021

Indigenous firms face additional barriers to economic recovery

by Tabatha Bull

Pre-pandemic, Indigenous enterprises were booming. To continue that growth, we need to root out systemic barriers exacerbated by COVID

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Climate Crisis/Winter 2021

Through the lens of an Inuk woman

by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Vanishing ice threatens the Inuit way of life. To heal our world, Canada will need imagination and an Indigenous-aligned economy

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