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Ontario At Work - Women make the grade in the trades
Posted: Oct 29, 2009
When Renee Martel dropped out of college, she was back at square one, looking for a career that would motivate and interest her. Discouraged by the low-paying jobs she was landing, she finally decided to try her hand at a skilled trade. 
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City Dragon Searches for Apprentices
Posted: Dec 22, 2009
BBC Dragons' Den star Shaf Rasul has launched a nationwide search to find three apprentices.
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Jamie Oliver Wins TED Prize
Posted: Dec 22, 2009
He started the London-based Fifteen Foundation, a social campaign and chef apprenticeship program to empower disadvantaged 18 to 24 year olds.
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Who's Your Plumber?
Posted: Oct 29, 2009
Seven skilled trades provided work for about one million people in 2007, Statistics Canada reports.
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Registered Apprenticeship Training Programs - Statistics Canada / The Daily
Posted: Oct 17, 2008
Registrations for apprenticeship training programs increased in all major trade groups in 2006, and women continued to make modest inroads in most of these programs.
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High School Helps Bridge the Skills Gap - Toronto Star August 21, 2008
Posted: Sep 9, 2008
Hands-on program offers co-op credits to students who work with local tradespeople
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Schools Called Key to creating Skilled Workforce - Toronto Star May 23, 2008
Posted: Jul 10, 2008
Activist urges provine to fund classrooms that focus on trades
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Respect for Skilled Trades - Toronto Star March 4, 2008
Posted: Mar 11, 2008
As job crisis looms, it's time North Americans lost their snobbish ways, labour summit warned
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Trades terrific career choices - OCtober 30, 2007
Posted: Jan 17, 2008
For too long now trades have been neglected by high schools, students and parents as worthwhile career choices, with the traditional focus being on college or university.
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Wonder why you can't find a plumber? No one wants to train them - Globe and Mail article
Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Meet Nicolas Drouin, a 19-year-old chef-in-training from Quebec City.
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Students use co-op as apprenticeship springboard - Orillia Packet and Times
Posted: Jan 15, 2008
Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program provides framework, funding
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Applying tools of the trade - Barrie Examiner article
Posted: Nov 16, 2007
It's all thanks to a childhood dream, the right courses and connections through his high school apprenticeship program two years ago
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Students flock to trades - Globe and Mail article
Posted: Nov 16, 2007
The decade-long construction boom has a growing number of students abandoning ties and briefcases in favour of hammers and saws, with enrolment in building trades soaring
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Fast track to a creer - Toronto Star article
Posted: Sep 20, 2007
With the anticipated shortage of skilled trades workers within the next decade, apprenticeships have become an increasingly popular road to solid careers. Many students even get paid while they learn.
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Good help is hard to find - Toronto Star September 8, 2007
Posted: Sep 14, 2007
Manuel DaCosta, a roofer for 25 years, can't remember when there hasn't been a shortage of workers in his trade, but the past few years have been by far the toughest.
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Trades program offers lesson on repairing lives
Posted: Aug 28, 2007
A pilot project, the eight-month course is one of 10 funded through a $4 million provincial initiative aimed at helping abused, at-risk and impoverished women achieve economic independence.
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(archived)
These boots are made for workin'
Posted: Aug 23, 2007
With more women entering the skilled trades, Whitby mom saw her niche: a line of totally cute female-friendly work wear
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The skilled trades are `kicking butt' - Toronto Star August 16, 2007
Posted: Aug 23, 2007
Technical careers promise good money and a strong demand
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Only 18 per cent of Canadian employers who could have an apprentice bother to hire one
Posted: Jul 11, 2007
Only 18 per cent of Canadian employers who could have an apprentice bother to hire one.
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