TORONTO — Ontario construction stakeholders are praising the move by the Ford government on Oct. 21 to shift responsibility for training, skills and apprenticeships to the Ministry of Labour.
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TORONTO — The Government of Ontario is taking action to attract more people to the skilled trades and employers to hire more apprentices. The province is facing a serious labour shortage which has the potential to get progressively worse. On any given day tens of thousands of jobs go unfilled and many of those are in the skilled trades.
By Phil Gillies, as featured in ReNew January 2020.
The Closing Shot article in the November/December 2019 issue of Renew, Truth In Training, unfortunately did not tell the whole truth about construction training and apprenticeship in British Columbia.
By Phil Gillies – Daily Commercial News
A new report prepared by Prism Economics and Analysis for the Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) provides some insight into the state of the workforce in the province’s construction industry.
Don Wall October 30, 2019
The Ford government’s plan to introduce a skill-sets system for the building trades in Ontario was repeatedly slammed at the recent annual convention of the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario held in Niagara Falls.
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced changes to the responsibilities of three ministers with a realignment of the former Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the Ministry of Labour.
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