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Mentorship and training partnership touted by organizers as a “bridge” to employment for Indigenous youth in Northern Ontario
Scott Rienguette, general manager for Sudbury-based Legend Mining, says he’s on a mission to show Indigenous youth that the only barriers they’ll face entering the skilled trades are the ones they build themselves.
The Sudbury-based mining company has partnered with Kenjgewin Teg, an Indigenous learning institute on Manitoulin Island, to help get practical, hands-on training to people outside Northern Ontario’s large mining centres.
It’s an effort to help stream Indigenous youth — one of Canada’s fastest-growing demographics — into careers that could help replenish a depleted skilled trades labour pool. The goal of the partnership, Rienguette said, is to ensure that the first steps in the mining industry’s training programs — referred to as “common core” modules — can be more readily accessed by the region’s seven First Nation communities.
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