BC Gov News

Vancouver will host the 19th annual Skills Canada National Competition in 2013, allowing B.C. students to go head to head with students from across the country in technical trades competition.

The B.C. government has formed a partnership with the United Steelworkers Union (USW) to pilot new skills training for its members in the North, with a focus in the areas of forestry and mining.

For the first time in B.C. immigrants will receive advanced workplace-specific, settlement-focused language training to help them find and keep jobs and settle into their communities.

Helping unemployed young people create new businesses and new jobs. That's the focus of an innovative, new government program being administered in the Vancouver area by the YMCA of Greater Vancouver.

Helping unemployed young people create new businesses and new jobs. That's the focus of an innovative, new government program being administered in the Kelowna area by Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Okanagan.

Three years ago, Girish Nivarti was one of the superstar science undergrads from India who came to B.C. through the first Mitacs Globalink program to experience the world-class research going on at British Columbia universities.