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Taking Stock: Trends in Canada’s labour market
Amanda Lang discusses trends in Canada’s labour market with Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre.
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Skills-first hiring and training key to staffing Canada’s $192B in major projects: report
Future Skills Centre recommends defining skills required for role rather than relying on degrees or job titles
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Electrification is happening, and these jobs are already hot, industry says
When Laura Tyrrell was a teenager in Alberta, she sometimes accompanied her father on jobs wiring condos.
“I loved it,” she recalled. “Going to work with him was fun.”
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In the Media
Taking Stock: Trends in Canada’s labour market
Amanda Lang discusses trends in Canada’s labour market with Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre.
In the Media
Skills-first hiring and training key to staffing Canada’s $192B in major projects: report
Future Skills Centre recommends defining skills required for role rather than relying on degrees or job titles
In the Media
Electrification is happening, and these jobs are already hot, industry says
When Laura Tyrrell was a teenager in Alberta, she sometimes accompanied her father on jobs wiring condos.
“I loved it,” she recalled. “Going to work with him was fun.”
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Justice-Impacted Entrepreneurs Launch New Businesses in Toronto
On Saturday, September 12, new businesses created by graduates of Street Entrepreneurs 3.0 will open their doors to the public at the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street. The founders are graduates of a sixteen-week business incubator run by Toronto’s Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted persons and their families. Every founder is now open for business.
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Why more new grads are skipping entry-level gigs to start their own business
When Jaiya Varshney graduated with a commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 2023, she dutifully sent out resumes, hoping to land a job working in sustainability.
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Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report
The Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report builds on previous Diversity Institute research by using data from Wave 8 of the Survey on Employment and Skills, which was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Nunavut does not have its own immigration pathway, despite acute labour shortages
Every other Canadian province and two of the three territories select their own economic immigrants. Nunavut doesn’t — and the reasons have more to do with Inuit employment and a small, strained labour market.
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AI skills gap in Canada widens as worker confidence fails to keep pace
New TD research exposes critical AI skills gap in Canada, with one in three workers admitting to overstating abilities
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Is the AI training gap dulling your transformation edge?
Canadian organizations are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) faster than they’re preparing their people to use it – and the cost of that gap is becoming impossible to ignore, according to a report.
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Future Skills Centre invests to turn PIAAC skills data into Canadian workforce insights
Canada’s productivity and prosperity depend in part on how effectively the country uses the skills of its workforce. To strengthen this foundation, the Future Skills Centre (FSC), funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Program, announced the selection of 10 research projects to tap into the potential of the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) dataset.
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Future Skills Centre replicating skills training programs that work across Canada
As Canada faces critical labour shortages in key industries, the Future Skills Centre (FSC) is announcing a $5.5 million investment to build a strong, resilient workforce that can drive Canada’s productivity and long-term economic prosperity. Through the Replicate initiative, funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Program, FSC is widening access to proven training solutions to help more Canadians, particularly youth and those facing barriers to employment, find stable jobs and navigate a changing economy.
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More Canadians to benefit from skills development through expansion of promising solutions by Future Skills Centre
FSC is pleased to announce a new investment of $14.3 million to expand more than a dozen innovative approaches to skills development addressing the urgent need to ensure Canada’s workforce is resilient and prepared for the future.
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In the Media
Taking Stock: Trends in Canada’s labour market
Amanda Lang discusses trends in Canada’s labour market with Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre.
In the Media
Skills-first hiring and training key to staffing Canada’s $192B in major projects: report
Future Skills Centre recommends defining skills required for role rather than relying on degrees or job titles
In the Media
Electrification is happening, and these jobs are already hot, industry says
When Laura Tyrrell was a teenager in Alberta, she sometimes accompanied her father on jobs wiring condos.
“I loved it,” she recalled. “Going to work with him was fun.”