People in northern B.C. will benefit from stronger community services as a result of approximately $4 million from the Northern Healthy Communities Fund (NHCF).

Members of the Stellat’en First Nation now have an enhanced voice in local forest stewardship and greater opportunity for economic development through a forestry agreement signed with the Province, moving British Columbia and the Stellat’en further down the path of reconciliation.

To help mature workers in Fraser Lake get the training and support they need for local jobs, the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia will provide nearly $160,000 to the College of New Caledonia (CNC) Vanderhoof campus to deliver the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW) program.                                     

The College of New Caledonia (CNC) will receive $150,000 from the Ministry of Advanced Education to support training for workers affected by the Endako mine suspension in Fraser Lake.

Endako Mine has been issued a Mines Act permit amendment which will increase production, create approximately 160 new jobs and sustain a total of 400 employees in the north, announced Minister of Energy and Mines Rich Coleman.