Exploring Theme: "Individual Business Issues"

‘The hiring in many organizations just hasn’t been there when it comes to Indigenous People’ NationTalk: HRD: Human Resources Director – A recent Deloitte report found that while many Canadian organizations feel like they’re doing their bit in championing Indigenous employees in the workplace, the individuals themselves feel otherwise. The report interviewed several Indigenous youths looking to...

Activists grow toolbox to shift corporate policy It was only after his flight landed in Toronto last year that Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Na’Moks learned that Royal Bank of Canada had cancelled its in-person annual general meeting with less than a day’s notice. The bank cited COVID-19 as the reason it moved the event entirely online,...

US Congress passed “Build Back Better Act”, which restores protections to Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit (The Sacred Place Where Life Begins), also known as the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. When more than 400,000 acres of the Coastal Plain were leased by the Trump Administration, not a single acre was leased by...

Catalyst – A new study “Building Inclusion for Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Workplaces”, found 52% of Indigenous Peoples working in Canada said they are regularly on guard to experiences of bias, a hallmark of emotional tax, with women on guard (67%) significantly more than men (38%). The new research shows that in addition to paying...

Reconciliation and Responsible Investment Initiative – RRII, a partnership between the National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association (NATOA) and the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) released a report “Business and Reconciliation: An Update Exploring the Performance of Public Companies in Canada” that “suggests that corporate Canada is slow to recognize the value of tracking...

Yukon News – Scotiabank is the latest of five Canadian banks to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “Scotiabank will not provide direct financing or project-specific financial and advisory services for activities that are directly related to the exploration, development or production of oil and gas within the Arctic Circle, including the Arctic...

Vuntut Gwitchin Government and Gwich’in Tribal Council are celebrating news that the Bank of Montreal (BMO) has prohibited financing for oil and gas exploration and development activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. BMO has confirmed this new policy in an update to their Responsible Lending webpage. The move from BMO follows a similar action...

Despite movement by the majority of major U.S. banks – five of the top 6 – there has yet to be similar action from their Canadian peers to rule out financing new oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic Refuge). In December, 2019, representatives of Vuntut...