Thompson Rivers University

Radio NL | Shawn Blankinship, TRU student studying First Nations finances

May 13, 2021

Master of Business Administration student Shawn Blankinship talked to Radio NL about his project. He spent five months copying data from 446 First Nations financial statements into a database. What he compiled may be the only central database for 2016 financial information for First Nations in Canada, a tool that informed his thesis research on the connection between First Nation government investing policies and community well-being and how geographic remoteness and population size fit into the equation. Hear the interview