Bentley boosts training at colleges.The province has boosted its apprenticeship training program, and Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it is in on the action. Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Chris Bentley announced Aug. 26 his ministry will be spending $13.6 million over the next four years to create 1,000 new apprenticeship positions at 18 community colleges. Greater Sudbury Greater Sudbury (2006 census population 157,857) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. Greater Sudbury was created in 2001 by amalgamating the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, along with several previously unincorporated geographic townships. alone will receive funding for 197 of those spots, Minister of Northern Development and Mines and Sudbury MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. Rick Bartolucci Rick Bartolucci (born October 10, 1943 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the Sudbury riding. He has been a member of the assembly since 1995, and is currently a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty. was happy to announce the same day. Cambrian College Cambrian College is a college of applied arts and technology in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, and funded by the province of Ontario, Cambrian has campuses in Sudbury, Espanola and Little Current. will receive the lion's share of the funding, $2,829,500 for 187 positions. More students will be able to enroll in the general machinist/mechanical technician (25 positions), heavy duty equipment/motive power technician (50) and industrial mechanic millwright/mechanical technician (112) programs. College Boreal bo·re·al adj. 1. Of or relating to the north; northern. 2. Of or concerning the north wind. 3. Boreal will receive $171,000 for 10 of the latter. The funding will apply to the upcoming school semester. Information on other colleges in the North was not available before Northern Ontario Business's press deadline. The apprenticeship program was launched last year, with space for 200 students in six community colleges. According to Bentley, the expansion will help the government meet its commitment to have 26,000 apprentices registered by 2007-08. Over 20,000 are registered currently. Businesses receive a tax credit of $5,000 as an incentive to offer apprenticeship training and cover a portion of the student's wage, something a lot of businesses aren't aware of, according to the minister. |
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