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Exchange Income Corporation Celebrates a Fourth Successful Season of the Atik Mason Indigenous Pilot Pathway, Offers Employment to Program Members, Including First Nunavut Graduate
As Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaches, Exchange Income Corporat...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Exchange Income Corporation Celebrates a Fourth Successful Season of the Atik Mason Indigenous Pilot Pathway, Offers Employment to Program Members, Including First Nunavut Graduate\n\n\n .bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }\n.bwuline { text-decoration: underline }\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n As Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaches, Exchange Income Corporation (TSX: EIF) (“EIC” or “the Corporation”), a diversified, acquisition-oriented company focused on opportunities in the aerospace, aviation and manufacturing sectors, celebrates the successful completion of the Atik Mason Indigenous Pilot Pathway’s fourth season in Thompson, Manitoba and welcomes to the flight line the program’s first graduate from the Rankin Inlet, Nunavut flight training base.\n \n\n This season, with the support and guidance of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakank Inc. (“MKO”), the Atik Mason Indigenous Pilot Pathway (“the Pathway”) trained 16 full-time students at its Thompson seasonal base. Among the instructing staff was Nathan Beardy, the first Indigenous Pilot Pathway graduate to elect to become a Flight Instructor at MFC Training (“MFC”) and contribute by teaching the next generation of the program’s Indigenous pilots to fly.\n \n\n Supported by the Government of Nunavut, the Pathway’s Rankin Inlet base concluded its second season of operation and celebrated 12 program participants, including the base’s first ever program graduate, Nujaliah Iyerak. In his final week of training at MFC’s primary base in Moncton, New Brunswick, Nujaliah has been recognized as an award-winning top student and has accepted a job offer from EIC subsidiary Keewatin Air and will have the opportunity to live in and fly from his home community of Igloolik, Nunavut. “I’m excited! I could never have become a pilot without the Pathway and EIC’s support. Coming home to a flying job that allows me to live at home and help my people is the best part,” exclaims Nujaliah.\n \n\n Between both northern bases this season, EIC air operators gave out 11 job offers to returning students entering their final stages of flight training, including 6 to Inuit pilots. There are currently 12 Pathway graduates from prev...