Help Wanted: GM Oshawa Assembly Plant is hiring
Oshawa, Ontario — General Motors (GM) is looking to fill a number of jobs ahead of the reopening of the Oshawa Assembly Plant. GM is looking to fills jobs in engineering, management, skilled trades, and production. Because the decision to move the plant in 2019 was highly contested by employees who would lose their job […]
Truly Magnanimous: Magna International donates $2 million to Sheridan College
Brampton, Ontario – Sheridan College has a big boost coming in the form to a $2 million donation from Magna International, announced last week. The donation from the Aurora, Ontario-based automotive technology supplier is earmarked for updates to equipment in the Skilled Trades Centre at Sheridan’s Davis Campus in Brampton, Ontario. As well, part of […]
CAF hosts first conference to support women in the trades
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario – August 9, 2018 – The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum will be hosting a conference in Halifax, NS to celebrate and support women in the trades. This first-time event will be taking place on November 6 and 7 at the Marriott Harbourfront Hotel. It will be open to women in trades, […]
Collision repair highlighted at first ever Ontario College of Trades diversity symposium
By Tom Davis Toronto, Ontario — November 13, 2017 — Over the next 10 years Canada will lose hundreds of thousands of skilled tradespeople due to retirements, according to the Ontario College of Trades. Guiding young people, women, indigenous peoples, new Canadians and those with disabilities into the collision repair sector is the key to […]
College of Trades oversight transferred to Ministry of Labour
By Mike Davey Toronto, Ontario — May 12, 2016 — A decision by the government of Ontario will see oversight of the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT) transferred to the Ministry of Labour (MOL) from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU). According to an official statement from OCOT, this change will […]
