In this year’s federal budget, the government introduced the Canada Job Grant which takes a new approach to using $300 million of the total annual $500 million in block training funding transferred to the provinces and territories under current Labour Market Agreements (LMAs).
The Canada Job Grant will require matching funds from employers as well as [...]
Recently announced changes, three in particular, are seen as most harmful – especially for SMEs, according to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC).
Transition plan to Canadian workforce: Ensure employers who rely on temporary foreign workers have a firm plan in place to transition to a Canadian workforce over time through the Labour Market Opinion (LMO) [...]
A system to clear gridlocked highways and roads as quickly as possible following a major traffic incident, often involving large trucks, is the purpose of the Delta Chamber resolution, “Coordinating highway incident management” recommended to the provincial government.
Delta Chamber of Commerce representatives will be speaking up once again on this issue from May 23 to [...]
B.C. businesses looking to hire post-secondary graduate interns this summer may qualify for federal subsidies. The federal government’s High Demand Youth Internship Program supports employers while assisting new grads in obtaining transferable skills.
Under the YMCA-administered program, employers are reimbursed $8 per hour for an intern’s wages. The minimum an intern can be paid is $16 [...]
The Target store at Scottsdale Centre, in North Delta, is among the first to be opened in B.C. by Target Canada when it unofficially starts serving customers as early as tomorrow, May 7.
The 114,000-square-foot space on Scott Road has been renovated to replace Zellers which served the community for many years. A grand opening is [...]
In the last provincial election, less than 51% of eligible voters went to the polls. In the last election, almost 1.6 million eligible voters did not give themselves the chance to have a voice.
Delta Chamber of Commerce urges all our members to get out and vote in the upcoming provincial election on May 14, 2013, [...]
A total of almost 200 people attended two provincial all candidates’ meetings on April 30 for Delta North and May 1 for Delta South to hear candidates respond to a wide range of business and community questions. Between opening and closing remarks by each, the candidates were given one minute each to respond to questions [...]
BC Chamber of Commerce CEO John Winter and the CEOs of two other B.C. business associations are backing a plan to develop a workforce literacy and essential skills strategy for B.C.
“The skills issue is the number one issue facing B.C. businesses,” Winter told a March 25 workforce literacy forum, organized by provincial non-profit Decoda Literacy [...]
Our BC Chamber of Commerce is helping drive a public debate on how B.C. can grow its economic prosperity – and share that wealth across all tiers of British Columbians.
Global, national and B.C. experts, including former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, converged in Vancouver April 5 to offer their insights on how B.C. can grow [...]