Assistance 2 Internationally-trained Engineers

Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning is launching a program to assist internationally-trained engineers to find work in their field in Canada. The program, which will receive more than $1 million in funding from the Ontario government, will begin in September 2008. The project will have four pilot intakes which will be completed by December 2009.

Engineering Connections: Software Skills Enhancement is the engineering software training and job search program Humber has created for internationally-trained engineers. "The aim of the program is to ensure that newcomers have the core engineering and software skills Canadian employers are demanding," said David Alcock, associate dean, School of Applied Technology at Humber.

Wireless 2 influence Canada's prosperity - FaQ

The federal government's auction of wireless airwaves — which will usher in new cellphone providers — kicked off on March 10, when bid applications were due. While wireless spectrum is a highly technical issue that makes most people's eyes glaze over, it is extremely important to Canada's future prosperity. With only about 60 per cent of Canadians subscribing to a cellphone service, Canada is well behind the rest of the industrialized world in adopting mobile communications. That means we are missing out on numerous business, educational, entertainment and cultural advances that are happening elsewhere. In other countries, more workers are experiencing the benefits of being freed from their desks. People are saving time by shopping or banking on their cellphones while taking public transit to and from work. Some are catching up on their television shows by watching episodes on their phones. Lives are also being saved through medical information transmitted over wireless networks. The government has blamed this lag on the lack of competition in Canada's cellphone market. The upcoming spectrum auction, beginning on May 27, is its effort to correct the problem.