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5 Minutes for Business: Mentally Healthy Workplaces: The Best Investment Your Business Can Make
Every week, nearly 500,000 Canadians miss work due to mental health problems or illnesses, costing the economy in excess of $51-billion annually. In order to remain competitive, businesses need to focus inwards and begin investing in and improving how they navigate mental health in their workplace.
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Issues & Insights: Apprenticeship Proposal Provides More Opportunities for Skilled Trades Careers
Ontario’s current journeyperson-to-apprenticeship ratios make it difficult for employers to fulfill high levels of demand for skilled tradespeople as they struggle to recruit enough journeypersons to hire additional apprentices. These rules have resulted in young tradespeople struggling to work the hours necessary to complete their training which results in a limited number of certified tradespeople produced each year…
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Call for Participation: Tourism Investment Committee
Tourism Thunder Bay and Thunder Bay CEDC are currently accepting applications for consideration for positions on the Tourism Investment Committee (TIC).
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Press Release: Chamber Welcomes Changes to Make Ontario Open For Business
The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce is welcoming the announcement of proposed changes to Ontario’s apprenticeship system that will reduce current requirements to a single one-to-one journeyperson to apprentice ratio and the repeal of many of the burdensome items in Bill 148
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Thunder Bay Says “Yes”
The Chamber is immensely gratified to note that all of the successful candidates in the 2018 municipal election said “yes” to the ten recommendations of the City of Opportunity platform.
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Press Release: Municipal Candidates Respond to City of Opportunity Platform
Candidate responses to the City of Opportunity survey are now available for review.
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Working at the local, Provincial and Federal levels for as long as we have has let us put together a pretty extensive library of information on topics ranging from Federal policy-making to local marketing to personal professional development. Browse the library here.
Are you starting or growing a business in Thunder Bay? The Small Business Resource Guide website has been developed by the Small Business Development Committee to assist Chamber members with information and resources that they may find useful in starting and managing their business. Click here to visit.
The Chamber's Economic Development Fund is one of the ways our Membership is able to support initiatives that support the growth or strengthening of the city’s economy.