Wage subsidies to hire recent grads
Take advantage of wage subsidies of up to $15,000 for interns in environmental and clean technology fields. Interns must be recent graduates in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). The wage subsidies are available from the Environmental Youth Corps (EYC) Internship Program and the Clean Tech Internship Program. For more information please contact Environment and Climate Change Canada /Government of Canada ec.grandslacs-greatlakes.ec@canada.ca Tel: 416-739-5996
Have Your Say on Northern Agri-Food!
The Ontario government wants your help to identify opportunities to grow the Agriculture, Aquaculture and Food Processing sector in Northern Ontario. Tell us your ideas on how industry and government can work together to drive growth of the sector. The Growth Plan for Northern Ontario identified the Agriculture, Aquaculture and Food Processing sector as one of eleven priority sectors that can contribute to the diversification and growth of the Northern Ontario economy. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is developing a strategy for growing the sector and has posted a discussion paper to its website and to Ontario’s Environmental Registry. Your ideas are important to the development of a strategy for the sector. First, read the discussion paper. Then, share your ideas with us in one of several ways listed below. Comments must be submitted by July 3, 2016. Online to Ontario’s Environmental Registry (Registry Number 012-7458), use the ‘submit comment’ button down the right hand side of the screen. By email to northernagrifood@ontario.ca, by delivery to any OMAFRA office (addressed to the Economic Development Policy Branch, OMAFRA), by mail/courier to: Economic Development Policy Branch, 1 Stone Road West, 2nd Floor NE, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 4Y2. By fax: (519) 826-4328 (addressed to the Economic Development Policy Branch, OMAFRA). If you have any questions, please contact Brian Bell (brian.bell2@ontario.ca 705-282-1638) or e-mail northernagrifood@ontario.ca
