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Improving the urban aboriginal experience - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Yet the censuses also show aboriginal residents still lag far behind other city dwellers. They’re more likely to be jobless or earn less money
  • These disparities have many native and municipal leaders calling for a new pact for Canada’s rapidly growing urban aboriginal population – such as a landmark accord initiative in Edmonton, begun six years ago, which established aboriginals as equal partners in seeking solutions.
  • In 2005, Edmonton and its native community created the Urban Aboriginal Accord, which aims to address native issues. A survey conducted for the accord found that four in 10 felt Edmonton was an unwelcoming and unfriendly city to aboriginals. “They’re a major part of our community, and yet they were kind of separated from our community,” said former city councillor Ron Hayter, a long-time champion of the accord’s creation.
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  • Crafting the accord took time. Edmonton drew from the lessons of an unsuccessful attempt in Winnipeg, ensuring its aboriginal community was driving the dialogue, not consulted after the fact. Edmonton had to show its native residents it was serious about developing a better and more inclusive relationship, Mr. Hayter said.
  • Statistically, it’s too early to tell whether the accord has helped improve the well-being of Edmonton’s aboriginals. Mayor Stephen Mandel knows more work remains to make the city a welcoming and prosperous home for aboriginal residents. More job opportunities and better housing are required, he said, as well as a deeper understanding of the challenges aboriginals face as result of historical abuses and systemic discrimination.
  • Mr. Mandel would also like to see greater funding support from Ottawa for municipalities with large aboriginal populations. “The accord was the start of it and only the start,” he said. “We have a long way to go, a heck of a long way to go.”
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Statistical Profile of Aboriginal Peoples Living in the   City of Edmonton - 0 views

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    Urban Aboriginal Population: A Statistical Profile of Aboriginal Peoples Living in the  City of Edmonton
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Outsider report card on Alberta's workforce strategy « Global Leadership Asso... - 0 views

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  • 1. Unleashing innovation.2. Leading in learning.3. Competing in the global marketplace.4. Making Alberta the best place to live, work and visit.
  • top strategies:• A Learning Alberta – basing Alberta’s growth on the knowledge industry• Securing Tomorrow’s Prosperity: Sustaining the Alberta Advantage – transition to a knowledge-based and value-added economy• A Place to Grow – linking rural economic development with educational attainment levels• Strengthening Relationships – Working strategically to strengthen partnerships between First Nations, Metis and Aboriginal peoples.• Supporting Immigrants, Immigration to Alberta and Integrating Skilled Immigrants into the Alberta Economy – attraction, development and retention of immigrants into Alberta• Growing our Future – integrating life-sciences strategies into innovation and some value-added sectors
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  • emphasizing a high performance workforce and a high performance work environment.
  • Investment in innovation and skills upgrading are key tofinding employment in Alberta in the coming years.• Labour supply pressures will resurface for some occupationsin the medium and long term due to Alberta’s agingpopulation.• Medium to long term labour force planning should continueto ensure Alberta has the skilled labour force it requires inthe future.
  • people who are targeted for the BETW initiative are youth, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, Aboriginal populations and minorities
  • common complaint was the expense of upgrading, re-training or accessing professional association tests for immigrants who were struggling to have their credentials recognized.
  • job loss due to the recession has been hardest on men in male dominated professions, Aboriginal youth and in agriculture, finance, insurance, real estate, leasing, manufacturing, construction and retail industries. Job increases were observed in health care, social work, information, culture and recreation,
  • the reality of the situation is more troubling and complex than recent BETW evaluations would have us believe
  • From the Advanced Education labour market report, unemployment recession effects are felt strongly by those very groups targeted for benefit from the strategy
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Measuring Capacity Building for Aboriginal Economic Development « Global Lead... - 0 views

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  • Measurement of capacity building frequently involves the use of a logic model and self-assessments, which can be useful in helping to focus evaluation and in gathering individual perceptions.  Two drawbacks to the use of the logic model for evaluation are firstly that funder output focus may not match actual organizational goals and outcomes, and secondly that the complex relationships between components in the system are over-simplified or ignored. Self-assessments alone are problematic in that they focus solely on the perception of individuals and lack objectivity because they may be influenced by: effort, bias, discrimination, interpersonal conflict in the organization, desire to avoid scrutiny, fear of reprisal or personal gain.
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Hiring crunch Job 1 for new chamber chair - 0 views

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  • Finding ways to deal with an impending labour shortage will top the list for Edmonton's Chamber of Commerce this year, says incoming chair Bernie Kollman
  • The chamber board will also visit Saskatoon in April to talk with business leaders there about what they are doing to engage their aboriginal community. "They have done some creative things with their aboriginal population and workforce development, and we'd like to see that," Kollman said.
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http://premier.alberta.ca/PlansInitiatives/economic/RPCES_ShapingABFuture_Report_web2.pdf - 0 views

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      work with the federal government to change the immigration system - to help address critical shortages of workers at all skill levelsIt is in the interests of all Canadians that the Alberta economy remains strong. To realize the full potential of the oil sands and broaden the economic base, the province will need people from outside the country as well as migrants from other parts of Canada. The provincial government and industry must collaborate in demonstrating to the federal government the critical need to at least double the caps on the provincial immigrant nominee program. Advocate for immediate changes that allow temporary foreign workers with solid records to apply for permanent resident status while they are still in the country. Continue to work with the federal government to institute longer-term changes to better align the national immigration program with strategies for economic growth, making it more responsive to changing economic conditions and industry's workforce needs.Determine what is getting in the way of swift assessment of foreign trades and professional credentials related to these scarce skills, and remove barriers to full recognition of qualifications that meet Alberta standards. Pre-certify credentials from selected offshore institutions, and create a mechanism that allows all immigrants to determine their credential status before moving here. Expand initiatives such as the Immigrant Access Fund to help immigrants achieve credential recognition.
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    Give a new alberta water authority the mandate to innovate in water stewardship, and realize the full benefit of our precious water assets Alberta needs all its citizens to develop the mindset and skills to thrive in today's world and drive economic growth - to be resilient, lifelong learners, healthy and productive, eager to achieve and perform, globally connected and informed seeking talent around the globe Like other countries with aging populations, Alberta in 2040 will be competing to attract the brightest and the best talent to the province's workforce to fill critical gaps. As early as 2030, demographers predict that domestic workforce growth in Alberta and Canada will have stalled, although higher birth rates in our Aboriginal population could indicate potential for some domestic population growth. Encouraging seniors who wish to stay in the workforce longer to do so could mitigate (but not solve) the problem. Employers could abolish their mandatory retirement age and other policies that discriminate on the basis of age.Employers in this province are already concerned about shortages of people to fill jobs at all skill levels, well aware that energy booms create huge demands for workers in service sectors as well as in construction and labour-intensive oil sands production. The very specialized skills and knowledge essential to success in broadening the economic base are in short supply in the province now because there have not historically been good opportunities in these areas. One key requirement is more people experienced in founding and growing technologybased businesses. While productivity improvements and the application of innovative business models may slow growth in the labour supply gap or change the mix of skills required over the  next three decades, we still expect to see an increasing  need to attract immigrants to the province to fill key gaps  at all skill levels.The number of immigrants to Alberta fr
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Ledcor Alberta launches hiring drive - 0 views

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  • In a sign that labour shortages have returned to Alberta, a major industrial employer launched a hiring campaign Tuesday to attract 9,000 workers in 2011.
  • Ledcor Industries Inc. has already hired 3,800 workers so far this year.
  • “Whenever there are quotes about the size of projects, it’s often 50 per cent labour and 50 per cent material,” Walker said.
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  • Walker said Alberta can no longer rely on drawing labour from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Maritimes because those regions are busy too. Meanwhile, the workforce is aging and families are growing smaller.
  • In a news conference at the Alberta Art Gallery, which the company built, Ledcor unveiled its first official recruitment drive; in the past, it hired mostly through referrals, said Sue Melik, director of recruiting.
  • “We’ve always done a lot of hiring, but we’ve never been strategic about it by going to the market,” she said.
  • “If Ledcor’s looking to hire over 9,000 people in 2011, we need to open up the gates.”
  • Centred around the theme “I (We) Built This,” Ledcor will blanket Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray with billboards, posters in restaurants, bars and airports, contact cards and use social media for the first time, by reaching out with a Facebook page. The company also hopes to lure more aboriginals and women to its workforce
  • The company, which employs 5,000 people across North America, is looking for both tradespeople and office help.
  • Best known for its construction division, its arms with the greatest needs for workers are actually its industrial, maintenance and civil divisions, all active in the oilsands industry near Fort McMurray, she said.
  • Alberta faces a shortage of at least 77,000 workers over the next decade, said Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk.
  • n April, Alberta’s unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent, down from 7.6 per cent a year earlier
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