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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

Vale unveiled their new high-tech $1.7-million taxpayer-funded mining simulator on July 18, nearly a month to the day after the grand opening of the Valer-Vale education building where the simulator is housed. The simulator is the crown jewel of the training centre that officially ope

Valer-Vale officially opened their newly renovated education and training building on June 19. The $1 million renovation fills Vale’s need for more space and classrooms for miner training. The facility features three new classrooms as well as an IT classroom. Vale’s $1 mil

R.D. Parker Collegiate played host to the fourth annual Young Women’s Conference on April 24. The conference, sponsored by Skills Canada, along with Northern Manitoba Sector Council, Vale, University College of the North and Calm Air among others, is an all day conference aimed

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