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Murray B. Koffler the founder of Shoppers Drug Mart and the co-founder of The Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, and his associates were inspecting a partly completed Four Seasons Hotel in Calgary, Alberta in the spring of 1982. He was stunned to find a family huddled in the basement among building materials. On inquiring, he learned that it was a common sight in Calgary —homeless Aboriginal people. Later, the same day, Mr. Koffler visited a local Shoppers Drug Mart, only to interrupt a security officer escorting a young Aboriginal boy from the store being suspected of shoplifting. He couldn’t understand why a prosperous city allowed such devastating conditions to exist for its Aboriginal citizens. These instances triggered Koffler to undertake some individual research on the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. What he discovered set in motion a chain of events that would alter the landscape of business in Canada and give rise to the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. Read more
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