With five major publicly funded construction projects in the works worth about $1 billion, Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, and its population of roughly 95,000, is poised for a mini economic boom.
“This is an exciting time, it really is,” says Trent Soholt, executive director of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council (NSCSC), which provides information about future labour demand and supply and identifies areas of concern related to human resource planning and skills development within the industry. Read more…