Canada funds training for low-carbon northern workforce

The Government of Canada announced a federal investment of over $8 million through the Sustainable Jobs Training Fund to support the Sustainable North: Our Workforce project led by the Mine Training Society.

• Main action: The Government of Canada is providing over $8 million via the Sustainable Jobs Training Fund to the Sustainable North: Our Workforce project to deliver in-person skills training to nearly 1,850 mid-career and new workers, including Indigenous people in remote communities across the Northwest Territories; the project will establish an advisory committee of employers, industry stakeholders and community service agencies and is being delivered in partnership with DeBeers Canada and Burgundy Diamond Mines.
• Background and details: This project is one of eight initiatives funded through the Sustainable Jobs Training Fund, which will support more than 10,000 Canadian workers; the call for proposals for the 2024 application period ran March 8, 2024 to May 15, 2024 via the Grants and Contributions Online Services (GCOS) portal; the announcement references Canada’s interim Sustainable Jobs Plan 2023 to 2025, and includes statistics such as ~1.3 million expected retirements across sectors over the next three years and an RBC estimate of ~400,000 new jobs demanded by the net-zero transition between 2021-2030.