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B.C. Building Trades Council executive director Tom Sigurdson is welcoming provincial government plans to establish regional workforce tables to identify local labour needs, but not without some reservations.

Local barber Niels Beach is lamenting the lack of apprentices in his vocation. After 48 years, Beach wants to retire, but is having a tough time finding someone who can take over and believes the lack of a school for barbering in B.C. is the reason.

The top five vocations in B.C. by the number of participants registered in training programs are electrician, carpenter, cooking, plumbing and automotive servicing.

The Northern Supportive Recovery Centre for Women is not the only organization seeking to develop a women's long-term addiction treatment centre in the North.

Developing value-added forest products remains source of contention

Analysts predicting supercycle for forest industry

Job shortage and forest industry is no longer a contradiction in terms as far as MaryAnne Arcand is concerned.