From ConstructConnect – 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.
From Cape Breton Post – Work continues on the construction of a new Nova Scotia Community College campus in downtown Sydney that is not expected to open until September 2024.
The Cape Breton Partnership is excited to announce new features in the recently launched Cape Breton Job Board. This tool is the first job board of its kind, made specifically for Cape Breton job-seekers and employers. The Job Board aims to support Cape Breton job-seekers and employers in their search to find the best-suited job opportunities and candidates on the Island and will help shape the future landscape of employment in in Cape Breton – Unama’ki.
From NSCSC – The Nova Scotia Construction Council (NSCSC) is excited to announce the release of the first set of videos in a 65+ video web-series covering all aspects of the ICI construction sector in Nova Scotia. The videos in the “Have You Thought of Construction?” web series span across topics from defining construction and personal protective equipment to construction safety and Apprenticeship.
The province is investing $10 million to support 25 communities through the Back to Work Community Partnership initiative so they can plan and deliver short-term programs aimed at helping people build skills and connect to the local workforce.
The Rankin government’s first budget includes the single largest increase in income assistance in the province’s history and provides a solid foundation for a strong economy in which business can grow. In addition, it makes investments in key sectors that will benefit Cape Breton, including the hospitality industry, long-term care, public health, mental health and the environment.
From BuildForce Canada – Construction requirements across Canada are expected to rebound in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and rise through the coming decade – albeit at more muted levels than in the past 10 years.
Growing up in Fort McMurray, Trent Soholt saw more than his fair share of construction in the oil industry service town so familiar to generations of Cape Breton workers. But Soholt doesn’t work in the oil patch. In fact, he doesn’t even live in Alberta. For the past 14 years, he’s been the executive director of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council (NSCSC), a non-profit organization dedicated to human resource and skills development within the industrial-commercial-institutional (ICI) sector of the industry.
From Construction Daily – Trent Soholt grew up in Fort McMurray and saw more than his fair share of building in the oil industry service town so familiar to generations of Cape Breton workers. But Soholt doesn’t work in the oil field. In fact, he doesn’t even live in Alberta. For the past 14 years, he has served as the Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council (NSCSC), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing human resources and competencies in the industry’s industrial trade institutions (ICI).
From BuildForce Canada – Construction and maintenance activity in Nova Scotia is expected to increase between 2021 and 2023, driven by strong and broad-based demand across the province’s residential and non-residential sectors. This is according to the latest labour market forecast data released today by BuildForce Canada.