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Tim Smith \/ The Brandon Sun<\/p>\n
Mark Frison, President and CEO of Assiniboine College, speaks at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Brandon, Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like we train all the apprenticeship welders and agricultural technologists here in Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frison highlighted the positive results of Assiniboine College and the growth of post-secondary education in Manitoba as indicators of young people heading into the workforce.<\/p>\n
He said the college has a high rate of students who stay in the province after they graduate, which helps the local economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur longtime teammate the United States has decided that our interests are divisible. They no longer see us pulling together \u2014 they see our wins as their losses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNostalgia is not a strategy for managing that relationship. We need to summon our competitiveness, our patriotism, our will to win,\u201d Frison added.<\/p>\n
As the U.S. market has changed, he said, Canadians need to develop relationships elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe need to continue to strengthen economic integration, continue the spread of human rights to every corner of the planet, and understand that we have only one planet and one environment that needs to sustain life for ourselves and other species on this Earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a college, we know we have a role to play in this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s keep working together and build a stronger Brandon, a stronger Manitoba, a stronger Canada and a stronger world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frison\u2019s presentation touched on the need for better health care in the province through training at the college and other rural post-secondary institutions.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Brandon Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANDON \u2014 Governments need to support local colleges to help Manitoba\u2019s future workforce, Assiniboine College president Mark Frison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-489910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}