TORONTO — Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued the following statement on today’s monthly employment release by Statistics Canada. “Ontario has added nearly 200,000 jobs this year, highlighting the resilience of our economy. However, last month’s job numbers remind us of the challenges that persist. These results, once again, underscore the need for the Bank …
OTTAWA — The Ontario government is investing over $4 million through the Skills Development Fund (SDF) to upgrade a SMART Local 47 training centre for sheet metal workers and expand their training curriculum to include French-language materials, enabling them to train more than 500 additional workers over the next five years. With this expanded curriculum, the Gloucester training centre becomes the first in …
VAUGHAN — The Ontario government is investing over $26 million to build a new training centre at LiUNA 183’s skilled trades training campus in Vaughan. This investment comes from the province’s new $224 million Skills Development Fund (SDF) Capital Stream, which was announced by Premier Doug Ford in June 2023 and which will support the training of more than one million workers across …
MISSISSAUGA — The Ontario government is helping enable the construction of more than 500,000 new homes across the province through the first round of investments from the province’s Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund. This first round will see the province invest $970 million in 54 projects across 60 municipalities to help municipalities develop, repair, rehabilitate and expand drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. In response …
Windsor — The City of Windsor is upgrading its transit system after a joint federal-provincial-municipal investment of more than $117 million. This was announced today by MP Irek Kusmierczyk, MPP Andrew Dowie, MPP Anthony Leardi, and Transit Windsor’s Executive Director, Tyson Cragg. These upgrades include improved bus stops and terminals, new technologies and a larger fleet. This investment will also help the …
Funding can be used to invest in housing- and community-enabling infrastructure KITCHENER — Premier Doug Ford announced Ontario will be providing Kitchener with $14,000,000 in funding through the Building Faster Fund as the city has exceeded its 2023 housing target, breaking ground on a total of 3,579 new housing units last year. “Kitchener is getting it done on housing and …
MISSISSAUGA – Truck World 2024, Canada’s largest trucking trade show will be honouring the contributions of the South Asia community to Canada’s trucking industry. This year’s event will feature a historical exhibition, a special reception, networking opportunities and more. “We are thrilled to recognize and honour the invaluable contributions of the South Asian community to the trucking industry,” said Thierry …
$794 million investment will connect more people in the Greater Toronto Area to care closer to home TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing $794 million to the University Health Network’s (UHN) new state-of-the-art patient tower at Toronto Western Hospital. The hospital will add more beds and operating rooms, to connect more families to convenient care, closer to home. “This …
Proposed changes would halt pay deductions for dining and dashing and unpaid trial shifts TORONTO —The Ontario government is introducing legislation that, if passed, would put in place ground-breaking protections for more than 400,000 people in the restaurant and hospitality industry. The Working for Workers Four Act, 2023, includes updates to the province’s Employment Standards Act, which would ban unpaid trial shifts and make …
Interactive Trades & Tech Trucks will bring simulators and hands-on activities to nearly half a million people across the province TORONTO — The Ontario government is investing $5.4 million to design and build three mobile tech classrooms that will travel across the province and teach students and young people about the skilled trades. The classrooms, built and operated by Skills Ontario, …
