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Vale Manitoba Operations general manager Lovro Paulic spoke at the Thompson Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 29 to announce the company’s plans for 2012 and moving forward towards 2015. The mining company will shut down it’s smelter and refinery operations in 2015 and, as a res

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Flin Flon, Manitoba – The Governments of Canada and Manitoba will invest more than $1.7 million to support the development and delivery of a mining equipment training program at the Northern Manitoba Mining Academy in Flin Flon. Funding under the Canada-Manitoba Western Economic

Outstanding contributions by provincial employees in the service of government and their communities were formally recognized today at the 12th annual Manitoba Service Excellence Awards. “Civil servants strive to find new and better ways to assist Manitobans through the work they do,”

For immediate Release June 18, 2010 Vale’s Manitoba Operations is establishing a $353,000 endowment fund that will support the re-establishment of a Mineral Sciences Industrial Vocational program at Thompson’s R.D. Parker Collegiate. The announcement was made at the offici

Manitoba News Release Workers to Provide Much-needed Skilled Labour for Manitoba’s Mining Industry: Chomiak Wabowden—The province recognized the critical role of northern and Aboriginal people in the mining industry as seven Aboriginal students received certificates in undergrou

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Forestry, Mining Training and Workforce Retention Initiative Designed to Help Workers Through Difficult Times: Doer THE PAS – The province is immediately committing $1 million to a special training initiative that will help workers in northern communities adjust to the difficult

Initiative to Support Apprenticeship Training For Northern and Aboriginal Residents Critical skilled-labour shortages in the north will be addressed by the $4.5 million Northern Essential Skills Training Initiative, Competitiveness, Training and Trade Minister Andrew Swan announced to