Students and faculty of a long-time provincial program at the University of Toronto designed to help immigrants upgrade their job skills and become more visible to Canadian employers are lamenting its sudden closure.
In a short post on LinkedIn Tuesday, the Intercultural Skills Lab at U of T’s Rotman School of Management announced that its four Ontario Bridge Training Programs were ceasing as of Sept. 30 due to a withdrawal of funding by the province’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development.