North Bay, ON – Cape Breton University’s Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies will bring this academic year’s mentoring program to a close for the Eastern Region of In.Business.  This two-day closing conference for the Eastern Region of In.Business is facilitated in partnership with Nipissing University and includes students, mentors and peer mentors from Quebec, Ontario and Nunavut. This conference is the first of a series of five regional face-to-face conferences where In.Business participants will celebrate a year of networking and learning focused on Aboriginal business.

“This is the first year that the In.Business Program was hosted in the Eastern Region and I can already see the impact that it is having on our youth,” says Kyle Thomas, In.Business Eastern Regional Manager, CBU. “I am hearing from students how they are now interested in business and that this program allowed them to go out of their comfort zones and develop leadership qualities. One teacher even expressed that for the first time, her student (an In.Business participant) is interested in school.”

From Monday, May 2 to Tuesday, May 3, 2016, students and mentors will come together at the Nipissing University campus to celebrate and reflect upon their experiences during this year’s program. The mentorship program for Indigenous youth teams Indigenous high school students in grades 10, 11 and 12 with Indigenous business mentors. These mentors a ...