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Aboriginal income: big negative numbers: Part Two
BY IAN SUTTON |
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It’s an opportunity that stares Canada in the face as it tackles the challenges of its aging population.
It’s also an opportunity that, through neglect and misunderstanding, will remain untapped, unless governments and the private sector soon focus on the potential for employability of members of the country’s 650,000 working-age aboriginal population.
The research paper published in late 2008 on income levels of Canada’s aboriginals draws a stark picture of how poorly members of the country’s aboriginal population are compensated. Krishna Pendakur of Simon Fraser University, co-author of that report, described aboriginal people in Canada as “massively” the worst-off ethnic group in the country.
Those facts came hardly as a revelation. Pendakur and his co-author and brother, sociologist Ravi Pendakur of the University of Ottawa quantified the shocking level of disparity that leaves aboriginal Canadians economically far behind all others in our society...[ read more ] |
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Canada
Smiths Falls, Ontario has launched a new portal on its website in the hopes of making the town of 8,000 a destination location for immigrants. The town’s site has been redesigned and translated into 5 languages—French, Hindi, Greek, Chinese and Tagalog—and contains information immigrants might require before leaving their home countries, as well as an interactive map of the town to help them once they arrive. The portal at www.immigratetosmithsfalls.ca was funded by a grant from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration...[ read more ] |
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| VIP ANZ National Bank |
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| ANZ National Bank Limited is one of the world’s 100 largest banks with $177billion in total assets and one of New Zealand's leading banking and financial services groups with more than one million customers. ANZ has 11,600 employees, of which 61% are female. In 2007 it undertook a study to find out why women were under-represented in leadership roles. Since then the ratio of women at the executive level in the bank has....[ read more ] |
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| This year’s Pride Award Winners have been announced. Recipients are Salah Bachir (Lifetime Achievement), Matthew Cutler (Youth Leadership), Stephanie Johnstone (Sports), John Greyson (Arts & Culture), Leonardo Zuniga (Human Rights) and El-Farouk Khaki (Theme Award). For more information on the winners....[ read more ] |
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| POV Diversity training fruitless |
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Advancement in technology and thriving global trade has led to a modern breed of international workers. Our workplace environment has also become more diverse than ever as we continue to do cross-border business. This poses new challenges for the business leader who needs to lead a unified team striving towards the same corporate goals.
A recent study on managing diversity and bridging communication gaps, conducted by the Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI) in September 2008, revealed that a majority of workers... [ read more ] |
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Ask a consultant
BY EVELINA SILVEIRA |
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Dear Diversity@Work:
I am a new Canadian in a leadership role in a company. I don’t have English as a barrier because I studied English quite intensely before I came to Canada. However, I never imagined that people would be complaining and challenging my choice of words. After all, I was educated in English and so I believe I know how it should be spoken.
I am starting to feel that everything in this country is so fraught with political correctness that you cannot have a decent conversation without the whole world jumping on you because you have used words like “crippled” or “coloured people” or “Indian” or “homosexual”, etc. I am so scared of opening my mouth now that I think I am going to lose my leadership position, so what do I do?
Dumb-Founded... [ read more ] |
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Formulating a Successful Diversity Strategy
BY EFRAIN BAEZ |
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Picture this: You have a crew of fresh new recruits who just completed their firefighter/paramedic certification. You've invested countless hours making sure they are trained properly. The recruits get to the field and then, without notice, they leave after only six months on the job. Why? You don't know why. They just decided to quit. Or maybe they didn't quit. Maybe they decided to stay and gut it out, but they are not focused. And in this business, if firefighters are not focused, lives are at risk.
Why the blurry objective? Could it be a lack of training or a lack of leadership? Maybe they just realized that being a firefighter is not what it was cracked up to be. Chances are, the recruits were trained exceptionally well. Or maybe the recruits were... [ read more ] |
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