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The Royal Canadian Mint’s (RCM’s) Foundation Skills Program improved employees’ existing skills, while giving them the tools needed for ongoing skills acquisition.

Management and union at Vancouver-based Teck Cominco Limited joined forces to form The Learning Centre (TLC) at the company’s operation in Trail, British Columbia.

Keyera Energy’s Capability Development System addresses industry-related training, and a variety of other workplace skills, including communication, computer literacy, and interpersonal relations.

The City of Moncton, in New Brunswick, established its Workplace Education Program (WEP) in 1998 to help meet the challenges of a changing world.

The learning program team at Winnipeg’s Assiniboia Downs racetrack has gone to great lengths to develop a learning resource centre with schedules and delivery models that meet the particular needs of its employees.

In 1996, the Slocan Group and its union set up an on-site adult learning centre at the company’s forest-products facility in Mackenzie, British Columbia.

Most of the 500 production employees at the Mackenzie location had not been in any formal learning environment for many years, and were anxious when faced with on-the-job training.

Loewen, Canada’s largest producer of premium wood windows and doors, has established a foundation skills program to help its employees, and to help the company grow.

Loewen’s manufacturing facility in Steinbach, Manitoba, employees about 1,700 people, many of them are immigrants whose first language is not English.

The Vancouver Municipal Workplace Language Program (VMWLP) is helping to upgrade the communication skills of employees whose first language is not English.

The Market Knowledge Centre (MKC) intranet portal created by Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) is a one-stop solution that enables knowledge-sharing within the BCE family, and helps employees sharpen their job skills.

Alcool NB Liquor (ANBL) delivers training material via email to help store employees improve their product knowledge, customer service, and communication skills.

ANBL is a provincial Crown corporation responsible for the purchase, importation, distribution, and retailing of all beverage alcohol in New Brunswick.