Ottawa: Lesley Dunn

Lesley Dunn: Ottawa is setting up the Canada Jobs Grant program, which offers up to $5,000 for an individual to be trained for a specific job. Funding would be matched by employers and provincial governments, for up to $15,000 per person, according to The Chronicle Herald. A little over 50 per cent of our programs are funded through the labour market agreement, said Lesley Dunn, executive director of the Dartmouth Learning Network and Up to 800 low-skilled Nova Scotians will lose access to education programs if federal funding changes go ahead, according to community learning groups. But to fund this, Ottawa is moving $300 million per year out of labour market agreements that pay for other programs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.