A spotlight on Economic Development at Nipissing First Nation – Anishinabek News

June 23, 2023

NIPISSING FIRST NATION — Earlier this month, the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development team met with Zack Lafleur, the still-fresh Economic Development Officer (EDO), and Genevieve (Gen) Couchie, Business Operations Manager, from Nipissing First Nation (NFN) to discuss the exciting developments happening in the progressive First Nation. NFN is frequently in the news for their community advancements, so we thought it’d be timely to give their Business & Economic Development Department a spotlight.

You may have recently read about Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) putting forward $1 million to develop Bineshii Business Park, NFN’s partnership with Miller Paving Ltd. (and the related Ontario Public Works Association award win for project of the year in 2022 for its reconstruction of the Duchesnay Creek bridge), and an entrepreneurial member bringing to the reserve its first Tim Hortons. There is no shortage of NFN-related articles to read, so this piece will focus on how their Business & Ec Dev team is addressing economic development within their communities.

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