OPPORTUNITIES
GALORE IN TOURISM!
5,000 positions in the Canadian tourism and hospitality
industries remain unfilled as a result labour shortages.
At recent conferences in Moncton and Ottawa, senior tourism
industry representatives were told that by the year 2020
almost a million positions in all industries would be unfilled.
Local
Woman Achieves First Class Power Engineer
Barb Romancia, a long-time Thompson resident who works
in the Power House at Inco Ltd., Manitoba Division, and
has been an employee of the company for the past 26 years,
has just been awarded her First Class Power Engineer Certificate
after 18 years of study and hard work.
Aboriginal
Students earn CN scholarship awards
Two highly promising Canadian Aboriginal students have been
awarded scholarships by CN to further their post-secondary
education.
CN
Aboriginal Awards Program 2000 Scholarship Recipient Richard
Nelson
It’s
the wish of most parents that their children go on to have
a better life than they did. Non-status MicMac Richard Nelson,
a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at Concordia
University in Montreal, has taken that wish to heart.
CN
2000 Scholarship Recipient Candis Callison
For Candis Callison, a member of BC’s Tahltan Band,
creating and building new things elicits the most rewarding
feelings. Over her short life-time, she’s managed to
develop and shape a career that’s taken a small town
girl to front and center stage in some of the North America’s
major media markets.
