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Please join us for this session, which will provide an overview of the emerging workplace safety and health landscape in Manitoba. Topics to be covered include expansion of industry-based safety programs, workplace safety and health certification, and prevention incentives. Learn from

The Northern Manitoba Sector Council (NMSC) is excited to announce the hosting of Career Awareness Tours. This event is intended for education and training coordinators (not students), to highlight resource industry careers available in northern Manitoba. The Canadian Chamber of Comme

The Swan Valley Mechanical Trades Initiative is intended to address the shortage of qualified Heavy Duty Mechanics in the Swan Valley Region. This unique project intends to take the candidates through the four levels of technical training and the required hours of industrial experienc

Targeted Apprenticeship Training, Work Experience Will Lead to Red Seal Certification, Good Jobs for Northern Manitobans: Premier Selinger THE PAS—Up to 36 people will receive apprenticeship training for good jobs in high-demand skilled trades ranging from millwrights and industrial e

Since the federal budget was announced on March 21, I’ve been hearing (and reading) a lot of feedback. Most of it has been positive, which I’m happy about. But some people are complaining about how the new budget doesn’t really change anything — or doesn’

Over 50 safety practitioners, supervisors, managers, regulators and union representatives from northern Manitoba participated in a two-day workshop at the Kikiwak Inn November 13th and 14th. The Northern Manitoba Sector Council (NMSC) is an industry association that helps develop a wo

Wilf Falk, Manitoba’s folksy but blunt chief statistician, was in Thompson Sept. 26, representing NDP Minister of Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade Peter Bjornson’s Advisory Council on Workforce Development, as he gave a talk to local employers on the Business and Labou

This is the view today of Elm Street, Snow Lake’s historic downtown main street. The town with a population of 723 last year, Statistics Canada says, has seen the typical booms and busts of mining towns everywhere and is on the upswing again with work speeding along on Lalor, ow