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GATINEAU, QC, May 18, 2021 /CNW/ - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on Canadian workers with many facing job losses and the need to upgrade or learn new skills to re-join the workforce. The Government of Canada has been there for workers and their families throughout the pandemic and continues to make ground-breaking investments to create jobs and help businesses come roaring back. Making sure that workers can improve or acquire new skills is key to achieving that goal.
Today, during a virtual meeting with stakeholders, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough launched Skills for Success, a new skills training program to help Canadians improve their foundational skills so they can find and keep good jobs. The program will provide training to nearly 90,000 Canadians and help get them back to work.
/CNW/ - Nurses are the heroes of the health care system and have shown tremendous resiliency at the forefront of Canada s COVID-19 pandemic response. They work.
WINNIPEG The University of Manitoba announced on Monday that it is creating a new resource hub to help internationally trained health-care professionals to work in Manitoba. The Government of Canada’s Foreign Credential Recognition Program is providing more than $735,000 to the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences to create the Access Hub for Internationally Educated Health Professionals. “It’s really a way of helping those health professionals who’ve attained their training and certifications outside of Canada get into the health-care environment in Manitoba,” said Natalie MacLeod Schroeder, director of the hub. “We all know there are long processes of certifications that everyone has to go through and for people trained outside of Canada that can be a complicated process to get through. They don’t have the same access to resources as those who are Canadians, just because they haven’t gone through our systems. So this hub is really trying to get a group of