Students in Holy Spirit schools in Lethbridge will be the big winners in a new partnership between the school district and the Lethbridge branch of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association.
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Students in Holy Spirit schools in Lethbridge will be the big winners in a new partnership between the school district and the Lethbridge branch of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association.
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Methanex presented a cheque for $25,000 on Wednesday to Medicine Hat College to further improve trades programming at the post-secondary institute.
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New and modernized labs and classrooms in Lethbridge will benefit over 3,600 post-secondary students.
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Ottawa plans to push the provinces to spend more money on vocational training, Employment and Social Development Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday.
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EDMONTON – The Canadian Welding Bureau broke ground Tuesday on an 18,000-square-foot building in Nisku that will facilitate the training, testing and certification of more than 8,000 members of the industry each year, once it is up and running in the fall of 2014.
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In the spring of 2012, discouraged by his lack of prospects in Ontario, Michael Reid uprooted himself from Sarnia and hit the road for Saskatchewan, where farm equipment manufacturer Morris Industries Ltd. snapped up the young welder after seeing a demonstration of his skills.
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It’s not a surprise that trades positions are looking to be filled all over the province and in the City and County of Grande Prairie. There are advertisements everywhere. However, Chris Laue, Dean of Trade, Agriculture and Environment and principal of the Fairview campus said those positions may soon be filled as the Grande Prairie Regional College has seen a fairly significant increase in students taking their offered trades courses.
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A potential stall in home price gains and a large drop in the number of distressed properties have some big investors pulling out of the single-family rental market.
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CALGARY – Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says a chronic shortage of skilled trades workers, especially in Alberta’s oilsands, can only be solved by a major influx of carpenters, electricians and welders from outside of Canada.
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With business booming in west Lethbridge, commercial construction is keeping local contractors and trades busy this summer.
The shopping area originally anchored by Safeway and Home Hardware continues expanding north and east, following the arrival of Save-on-Foods and Shoppers Drug Mart.
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