| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The care economy, which encompasses both unpaid and paid care, provides crucial care and support to all generations, including parents, grandparents, children, and many adults who live with disabilities or long-term conditions.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The new Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative provides supplemental support to organizations to respond to exceptional situations of mass layoffs that significantly impact their communities, to help workers transition to new jobs.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canada is home to a proud, adaptable and robust social safety net. The Government of Canada has worked with local and sectoral partners to implement measures that expand that net to support even more workers, keep more communities and towns resilient and bridge more impacted Canadians and their families to new opportunities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS) aims to support a trades workforce that is skilled, inclusive, certified and productive.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The race to decarbonization is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create good-paying jobs, grow our economy and lower harmful emissions. By investing in union training programs and giving tradespeople the green skills required to meet this moment, we are ensuring that Canadian workers play an active role in that race and assume an outsized position in the jobs and opportunities it promises to bring.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS) aims to support a trades workforce that is skilled, inclusive, certified and productive.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Skilled trades jobs are essential to ensure our homes, businesses and public spaces are safe, functional and well maintained. The Government of Canada is investing in apprenticeship training to grow a larger, certified, diverse and inclusive trades workforce.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Minister of Jobs and Families, Steven MacKinnon, will be in Ottawa to announce funding to help equip tradespeople across Canada with high-demand green skills.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canadians deserve to age with dignity. For many seniors, staying connected and active in their community is a big part of that dignity. Through the New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP), the federal government funds pan-Canadian and community-based initiatives across Canada that create a significant impact for the social inclusion of seniors in their communities. Through the Age Well at Home (AWAH) initiative, the federal government funds projects to assist seniors in aging at home.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Age Well at Home initiative (AWAH) is a one-time federal grants and contributions initiative.
