The 5 Essential Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs – ProfitGuide.com
May 8, 2014 A first-quarter survey of startup entrepreneurs’ confidence levels found a whopping 91% were “confident” or “very confident” that their companies would become more profitable in the coming…
4 Ways to Combat the Loneliness of Leadership – ProfitGuide.com
May 9, 2014 Like many entrepreneurs, I spend my day surrounded by people; the last thing I expect is to feel alone. However, like many founders of businesses, I am…
Female Entrepreneurs More Ambitious Than Males: Study – ProfitGuide.com
Women are starting more businesses than men—and they have bigger plans for their ventures, according to a new U.S. report If you go to work for a newer business, there’s…
Branding Secrets from Tim Hortons – ProfitGuide.com
Marc Caira became the fourth CEO Tim Hortons has ever had less than a year ago, and he already faces a double-double challenge: grow sales in Canada while expanding into…
Aboriginals look to cash in on Irving shipbuilding deal – CBC.ca
May 20, 2014 Irving has a $25 billion, 25-year federal contract to build Canadian combat ships in Halifax The federal, provincial and First Nations of New Brunswick do not want…
Budget: Indigenous Australians among hardest hit – ABC Local
20 May, 2014 More than half a billion dollars will be slashed from indigenous affairs and 150 programs rolled into just five if budget measures pass the Senate, making Aboriginal…
Crowley in the Globe: Future resource development demands understanding of ‘duty to consult’ – MacDonald Laurier
Writing in the Globe and Mail, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley argues that governments’ constitutional “duty to consult” Aboriginals is only going to grow in importance as more natural…
First Nations relations with Ottawa tested over ‘economic shutdown … – CBC.ca
May 16, 2014 Bernard Valcourt says he won’t meet with ‘rogue chiefs’ until threat withdrawn An already strained relationship between First Nations and the federal government was tested further on Thursday…
Cash for jails: Tony Abbott’s budget for Indigenous Australia – The Guardian
16 May 2014 With its budget, the Abbott government has made clear what it means by Indigenous ‘advancement’: fewer services, and more funding for lockups The 12 year old Aboriginal…
Bands fight plans by Kamloops, B.C., to expand boundary for copper gold mine – CP
May 16, 2014 KAMLOOPS, B.C. _ The chiefs of two First Nations say they’re prepared to take legal action to block the City of Kamloops from annexing a copper-gold mine that would…
