Feds Meet Provinces on Job-Training Grants

Representatives of Employment and Social Development Minister Jason Kenney are meeting provincial officials to discuss the future of funding for job-training programs, reports Postmedia News. Speaking in support of the federal government’s plan for a national jobs grant in the Vancouver Sun article, Al Hildebrandt, president of ITAC member QHR Technologies, said the jobs grant would be an ideal way to work with a local college to help upgrade the skills of new company recruits.