Human Resources committee  Just to echo what Suncor has said. We have a lot of the same issues, but I would add that partnerships should be based on mutually beneficial goals. You will only find out what those goals are if you communicate with each other, so that must be based on a strong and constant comm

Human Resources committee  The one example I have is that at Agnico-Eagle Mines in Nunavut they actually fly in a lot of their fly in, fly out employees out of Montreal. So they have a policy where you can work in any language you're comfortable with, and they have many languages. They do have a base requi

Human Resources committee  That is a concern we hear from the participants in the study. One of the participants from the Dene First Nation in Yellowknife mentioned that youth will drop out of high school and take a high-paying job or not bother to go on to university. In Yellowknife, the Northwest Territ

Human Resources committee  I think a lot of our participants in our study definitely noted the importance of getting kids into education and making them stay in education as one of their main focuses. Many of the participants cited lack of infrastructure in the north as an issue, and especially in northe

Human Resources committee  Well, certainly in the literature review we did come across some documentation saying that broadband is just a problem, in that it's one of those overlooked issues of infrastructure. We tend to think of hospitals, roads, and airports as infrastructure, but broadband must be a com

Human Resources committee  Yes, just-in-time training is a fantastic technique that a lot of our participants use. And really what they do is they see an open opportunity—an open job opportunity—and they develop their training specifically directed towards that opening. What that creates is an automatic