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"It's about saying we want people to stay in northern Manitoba," said Paul Holden, the province's director of industry and workforce development. "When things turn around, opportunities are going to abound."
The mining sector in the North also took a hit last month with HudBay Minerals Ltd. closing its Chisel North zinc mine in Snow Lake, which resulted in 110 job losses. Holden said the fund is designed to help these workers and companies, plus others feeling the same pressures, access training programs and support during the downturn so that when production does ramp up, there are people and processes in place to meet demand.See the full content of this document
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$1-M Fund to Help North Through Slump
Training and workforce retention
The province launched a $1-million fund to keep northerners hit by the econom...See the full content of this document
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