Industry mines school spirit.

Wind Speaker, December, 2005 by Petten, Cheryl

Many companies are focusing on the here and now, working to increase the number of Aboriginal people currently in their employ. A growing number of industry professionals, however, are looking to the future, working to position their companies as employers of choice for the next generation of young Native workers.

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The fastest growing segment of the Canadian population is the Aboriginal community. With a workforce that's aging, and faced with the prospect that in the next decade or two a good percentage of their current workers will be retiring, industry sees the solution to their anticipated labor shortage in Native school-yards across the country.

Cameco has been operating uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan for about 20 years....

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