More mature workers in small B.C. communities will receive the training and support they need for local jobs, thanks to an additional $4.1 million investment into the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW), a successful cost-shared initiative between the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia.

Building on the momentum from a recent enhanced construction craft worker pilot program, the College of New Caledonia is providing additional training to students who completed the pilot at the college’s Fort St. James campus.

A new skills training program gets underway this month for First Nations communities in northern B.C. that will help to ensure they benefit from jobs in British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.

Students in northern B.C. who want to learn a trade are getting a helping hand with more than $91,000 in one-time funding for 16 foundation seats in targeted trades training courses during 2013-14.

Residents of the North will now find it even easier to access government services with the official opening of a brand-new FrontCounter BC office in Fort St. James.