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GPRC’s Fairview campus adds new trades apprenticeship program

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Beginning in March, Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC) Fairview will offer a new apprenticeship program for students looking to get into the trades.

The “Welder-Wire Process Operator” course is the only face-to-face training available for the program in Alberta.

“We’re very pleased that we’re able to respond to the industry demand and that we have the flexibility within our welding department to accommodate this need,” said Chris Laue, GPRC Dean of Trades, Agriculture and Environment.

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Trades Alberta: Popularity of trades programs mirrors real world demand

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EDMONTON – For a young man who was never keen on school, Matt Gallatin seems to have found his niche.

The 24-year-old from Barrhead is enrolled in the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s school of trades, studying to become a plumber. During the three-year program, Gallatin will spend two months of each year in the classroom and 10 months working as an apprentice in his chosen profession.

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Go west and bring home higher salary increases in oil and gas sector

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Pipe fitters and plumbers in the oil and gas industry in Western Canada can expect higher salary increases this year than retail and hospitality workers, says a new study.

The oil and gas sectors in Saskatchewan and Alberta are expected to have the highest average salary increase at 4.5 per cent, up from 4.2 per cent last fall, the Conference Board of Canada said Tuesday.

Engineers and project managers as well as electricians and welders are also in demand, said Ian Cullwick, the board’s vice-president, leadership and human resources leadership.

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Energy companies recruiting high volume of skilled trades workers

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Dominic Yague wasted little time putting his education to good use in one of Canada’s hottest employment sectors.

Yague completed his electrical engineering degree at Edmonton’s University of Alberta in April of 2012. The following month he joined Suncor Energy’s reliability engineering group at the Fort Hills oilsands project, north of Fort McMurray, Alta.

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Lamphier: Finding skilled workers a tough job all over the world, not just in Alberta

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EDMONTON – With the lowest jobless rate and the fastest-growing economy in Canada, Alberta is again grappling with labour shortages.

The situation isn’t yet as severe as it was at the height of the last boom, but if existing trends persist, a repeat of 2006-2007 may be just a year or two away.

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Contractor fined $8,000 for working without licence

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A judge expressed disgust toward a 39-year-old Calgary-area contractor before fining him more than $8,000 on five charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act for operating without a licence and failing to refund customers when he didn’t complete work.

Provincial court Judge Heather Lamoureux had asked Kieron Warren what education level he had, and was told by the accused he had a university commerce degree.

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NAIT Trades to Degrees Program designed to fill a massive need in the workplace

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EDMONTON – The three decades of work experience Les McKenna has as an automotive and heavy-equipment mechanic means he was half finished his business administration degree at NAIT before he even started class.

McKenna is one of 22 students who began NAIT’s new Trades to Degrees initiative in September, which accepts certified tradespeople straight into the third year of NAIT’s four-year bachelor of business administration program.

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