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Roy Osmond with Colleen Arnold, General Meeting May 24, 2022

Regional Coordinator for Metis Employment and Training with the Manitoba Metis Federation The Pas Roy Osmond spoke on services available at their Flin Flon sub office.  He noted they have programs dealing with job opportunities, training, student employment and career counseling emphasizing a job opportunities subsidy and targeted wage subsidy.           

  “We want to be a partner, we want to help you get them trained so we always say the job opportunities subsidy is to get someone with multiple barriers the skills they need so they can move on after six months and hopefully find a job elsewhere.  The targeted wage subsidy is a little more restricted.  Our contribution would be higher but we would expect the employer to commit to hiring the person at the end of the program.”            

Osmond adds he also expects to have about 33 summer students working in this area.

              For information on the many jobs related and other support programs available contact the Manitoba Metis Federation sub office on Main Street and they will refer you to the appropriate person.

President Colleen Arnold with David Chartrand, President of Mb. Metis Federation

At the opening of their Flin Flon sub office Saturday President David Chartrand reported the Manitoba Metis Federation is really active in the province. He stated they have invested in a lot of successful projects noting they’re building hotels, building apartment blocks, pharmacies, clinics and like Ronald McDonald House they’re asking if they come to the city it’s so expensive to stay at a hotel so they already bought the land by Notre Dame by the hospital so they’ll be building a 12 or 18 family facility there for when families come in they have a place to stay.  He said they started a fur company so he put a million dollars into a separate account and it’ll be buying fur starting this year and onward noting they believe in the industry of fur and particularly the cultural connection with their history.

Brian Lin - guest speaker - General Meeting April 26, 2021

Brian Lin spoke to the membership about the activities and focus of the Economic Development committees which includes Flin Flon, Creighton, & Denare Beach.  Among other points, Brian let us know that he believes strongly that the strength of our region will continue to be natural resource driven.  He also informed us that with funding from the provincial government & the Mb. Mineral Development Fund, they have been developing an “Investment Attraction Tool Kit”.  Two key areas of improvement are needed:  residential development and retention & attraction of work force.  Brian let us know that there are a lot of exciting initiative coming up to help with these concerns.