'100 per cent Indigenous:' New mask factory on Alberta reserve to employ band members - PLANT
(CP) EDMONTON – What business school teaches in four years, Jacob Faithful says he learned in four months. The Alberta man from the Frog Lake First Nations says he’s worked through several headaches that come with starting a business during a pandemic and will soon be opening the first mask manufacturing plant on a Canadian reserve that is fully owned and operated by Indigenous people. “We already spent enough money to get the machine imported from China to here in Canada. And then on Feb. 22, we’re going to start making our own masks in Frog Lake,” Faithful, 42, said in an intervie...