An interview with Te Taru White
November 5, 2010An interview with Te Taru White, Maori activist, at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, November 2, 2010.
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An interview with Calvin Helin
November 5, 2010Calvin Helin talks about his new book, The Economic Dependency Trap, at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, November 2, 2010.
Calvin Helin launches Economic Dependency Trap in Ottawa
November 3, 2010Last evening, MLI hosted an Ottawa launch party for Advisory Council Member Calvin Helin and his latest book, The Economic Dependency Trap. The event, held in Ottawa’s historic Rideau Club, was a smashing success. Following and introduction by Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo (above), attendees listened to an insightful and thoughtful presentation by Calvin and ...
The Economic Dependency Trap
October 15, 2010A new book by MLI Advisory Council member Calvin Helin.
MLI’s Sandberg in Nat Post…Wanted: Productive Native Reserves
October 7, 2010MLI aboriginal affairs contributor Don Sandberg has an Op Ed in today’s National Post that poses a fundamental question: Why are some native communities in Canada prospering while most languish in poverty? Sandberg, a member of the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, spells out what he thinks it will take for prosperity to ...
MLI’s Free to Learn highlighted on CBC
August 17, 2010Calvin Helin, co-author with Dave Snow of MLI study Free to Learn, was on CBC radio’s ReVision Quest recently. He joined host Darrell Dennis in taking a hard look at aboriginal education in Canada in a show that aired on August 11th and again on the 14th. The program highlighted the key recommendation in Free ...
Doing property properly and the future of Canada’s first nations
August 17, 2010An outstanding piece on the future of aboriginals in Canada, in Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen, takes a sympathetic look at the introduction of private property rights by the Nisga’a and includes a highly pertinent quotation from MLI Advisory Board member Calvin Helin (an author, entrepreneur, lawyer, activist and advocate for self-reliance and member of the Tsimshian ...
Purdy Crawford named Honorary Chief of the Membertou First Nation
July 2, 2010Purdy Crawford, a member of MLI’s Advisory Council, received this special honour last week from Chief Terrance Paul of the Membertou First Nation. Congratulations! Cape Breton University friend Dr. Purdy Crawford was honoured during part of special convocation held at Membertou Trade & Convention Centre, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Following the convocation honouring Chief Terrance ...
Nation Talk features MLI’s latest poll numbers on support for Free to Learn proposal
June 24, 2010Nation Talk, Canada’s Premier National Aboriginal Newswire and Employment Service, features our recent poll numbers showing a majority of Canadians approve of direct funding of post-secondary education for First Nations students, as outlined in MLI’s first study, Free to Learn.
Majority of Canadians support direct funding of First Nations students
June 23, 2010Earlier this year, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published Free to Learn, a paper dealing with aboriginal post-secondary education. In this study the authors, Dave Snow and Calvin Helin, put forth the case for giving aboriginal youth a head start on post-secondary education funding through the creation of Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Accounts. These accounts would be opened ...
