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In the ensuing months, she went back to school to upgrade her skills. She started looking for work outside the service sector, which a year into the pandemic still has the longest way back to pre-crisis employment levels. Boycos path out of the service sector is one that could be replicated through dozens of new skills training programs being unveiled through the federally backed Future Skills Centre to help workers mitigate some of the pandemics long-term impacts. What COVID-19 has done is pus...

Jordan Press Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough responds to a question during a news conference Thursday August 20, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld April 07, 2021 - 1:05 AM OTTAWA - When COVID-19 forced the closure of department stores, Mary Junne Boyco and her co-workers lost their jobs, ending more than a decade of working in the service sector. The 35-year-old lost sleep as anxiety crept in about how to pay the bills and whether they would ever g...

LIGONIER — School leaders are keeping an eye on the Indiana General Assembly as legislators consider two key topics: school choice expansion through education savings accounts, and how this spring’s ILEARN standardized testing will operate. West Noble superintendent Galen Mast said the days carved out for testing would be better spent in instruction and helping students. All students, including those who have been in virtual learning, will be required to take ILEARN in person at schoo...

iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Feb 26, 2021 11:32am (Markus Spiske/Pexels photo) Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where your host can’t quite believe it’s already the end of February. Where did that month go? For the foodies, today is National Pistachio Day. The weekend brings us National Protein Day and National Strawberry Day on Saturday, while Sunday marks National Kahlua Day and National Chocolate Soufflé Day. Here’s today’s agriculture news. The Lead We st...

Racist who made Nazi salute, coked up son and kitten hurling dad spared jail this month These are the 20 criminals who walked free from court this year Left to right: Louis Mann, Lee Stephens, Jacqueline Preston Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include rec...

Nurse forged records to steal drugs from police custody suites The court heard the 55-year-old took a total of 341 tablets following the death of her mum Copy Lane Custody Suite (Image: Google Earth) Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations...

Application Deadline: January 21st 2021 The SheTrades Rwanda project aims to increase the competitiveness of women-owned businesses in Rwanda and connect them to markets. The project is implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC) under the framework of the SheTrades Initiative from September 2020 – February 2022. The project contributes to two outputs of the “Project to Enhance the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Export Growth Initiatives”, funded by the Enhanced Integrated Framew...

2020 has been quite the year. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented level of online activity, as millions of Canadians work and study remotely, using digital tools to stay connected with family, friends, and colleagues. At Microsoft, we are working to do our part by ensuring the safety of our employees. We are striving to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate. And we are providing technology, solutions, tips, and resources t...

Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 09:08 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 11, Colombo: COVID-19 is the first pandemic in history where technology and social media played a critical role and is widely being used to keep people safe and informed. Sri Lanka has over 6.4million active social media users, and the rapid exchange of information and perspectives about the virus was unfolding an ‘infodemic’ - an overabundance of information. False information was spreading faster than ever before ...