News - Training

To help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in Manitoba, the provincial government is providing $500,000 to upgrade technical vocational equipment used to train high school students.

Manitoba will build on its success in increasing apprenticeship and trades opportunities for more Manitobans and grow Manitoba’s skilled workforce through a new program called Skill Build.

An assistant professor with the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture reports the prospects of improving the productivity of swine barn workers by reducing their risk of injury is generating a lot of interest.

The Government of Manitoba will help community-based organizations, which support Manitobans with barriers to employment to get training and find jobs by supporting two new initiatives.

The Canadian Swine Health Board’s National Biosecurity Training Program has been expanded to include pork producers in two more regions and is now available in all of the pork producing provinces.

A Canadian Feed Technology Course planned for next month is expected to be of interest to anyone directly involved in the formulation of livestock rations.

The Canadian Swine Health Board has announced operations that complete the National Biosecurity Training Program will be recognized with signage.

Officers of the RCMP and First Nation Band Constables in Northern Manitoba recently completed training for personnel that work near frozen lakes and rivers, as well as those that respond to incidents where someone has fallen through the ice.

A new national farm level biosecurity training program for swine operations will be rolled out in Saskatchewan early in the new year.

The Canadian Swine Health Board expects its National Biosecurity Training program to be launched in two more provinces early in the new year.