Income Support and Alberta Works

Alberta Works: B.C. struggling to develop the trades of the future job market, according to Globe and Mail. Alberta has 11 per cent of Canadas population, but graduates 20 per cent of its apprentices nearly 8,500 in 2012. Alberta Works, a government-sponsored program, provides as much as $15,000 annually in tuition and fees for occupation-specific training. More than $75-million was provided in income support to Alberta trainees in 2012-2013 and While British Columbia looks at revamping its education system to get more students training for careers in trades, its next-door neighbour has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in growing the work force needed to support its ever-expanding resource sector. Here are four things things that are working in Alberta: More Related to this Story Income support (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.