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Levelling Up Ontario: Level Up events promote skilled trades to students

Mississauga, Ontario — On November 15 and 16, thousands of students from the Mississauga area from between grades 7 through 12 met with institutions, businesses and associations from across the skilled trades to ‘Level Up’ their trades awareness. The Level Up Event occurred at the International Centre in Mississauga, where over 8,000 students each day […]

Freshly Skilled: Tropicana celebrates 2020, 2021, 2022 collision repair pre-apprenticeship classes with lavish graduation

Toronto, Ontario — Tropicana Employment Services hosted its long-anticipated Collision Repair and Auto Body pre-apprenticeship graduation, where the not-for-profit honoured three classes of now-working apprentices. The celebration honoured three graduating classes—the classes of 2020 and 2021 had their originally scheduled ceremonies cancelled due to the pandemic—and was held at Centennial College’s event centre. The night […]

LKQ Delivers the Loot: Company gifts Tropicana, Centennial class with holiday donation

Toronto, Ontario ⁠— The students of Tropicana Community Centre’s Pre-Apprenticeship Auto Body and Collision Repair class are having a very happy holiday indeed, thanks to a very generous donation from LKQ Corporation. On top of body panels for Centennial College students to test their skills on, LKQ also supplied OGIO backpacks, vests and top-notch supplies […]

Tools for Schools: Ontario invests $24 million into apprenticeship grant program

Scarborough, Ontario — The Ontario government announced a further investment of $24 million into the province’s Apprenticeship Capital Grant program on Thursday. Citing Centennial College’s $1.6 million equipment investment as a success story, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton announced from the college’s School of Transportation that the Ford government is aiming […]

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