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Ontario's Government is tackling shortages in the skilled trades by announcing $20.8 million in spending to attract more people to the trades and boost Ontario's skilled workforce. The Government will...

The Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities is asking the 26 workforce planning boards across the province to identify projected shortages in skilled trades in the next five years. Right...

Ontario must start encouraging immigrants to settle in communities outside the GTA in order to reduce pressure on housing, transit and other infrastructure in the 905 and stimulate growth in...

A growing chorus of businesses across Ontario report that difficulty finding, recruiting and retaining talent with the right skills is a significant barrier to their growth. At the same time,...

Beginning Fall 2019, the new employment services model will launch in three diverse urban and rural communities: Region of Peel, Hamilton-Niagara and Muskoka-Kawarthas. Employment services across the rest of the...

Ontario's Minister of Education announced the newly revised Grade 10 Career Studies Course is now available online, and will be implemented in schools in September 2019 with a central focus on...

Average compensation within Toronto’s technology industry is higher than ever and increasing faster than any other major tech hub surveyed worldwide. According to a recent study by tech-job site Hired, the average...

The $6,908,138 in funding is part of the federal government's new Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness program. The program aims to encourage more women, Indigenous peoples, new comers and people with...

Skilled trade workers in Ottawa are trying to persuade young people to consider construction trades for a career as a shortage looms. Within the next decade the industry will need about 100,000 additional...

London’s employment and training agencies are reeling from more than $2 million in cuts to local job programs, a provincial government move that’s triggered more than a dozen layoffs and...