Staff Reflections

This year’s Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning (CEWIL) conference, Pathways to Partnerships, explored the perspectives of the individuals and groups across Canada’s youth employment ecosystem who influence and are influenced by work-integrated learning (WIL). This focus was evident during the opening keynote speech, which featured LMIC’s Director of Research and Strategic Foresight, Ken Chatoor, alongside…Read More

The impact and potential of work-integrated learning are real LMIC arrived in Hamilton for CEWIL Canada’s annual conference amid an economy in flux, educational institutions facing a new fiscal reality and rising youth unemployment, including among post-secondary graduates. With all of this at stake, CEWIL 2025’s timing felt particularly urgent, given that Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)…Read More

A first impression of Winnipeg Truth and reconciliation in action The role of Indigenous people in Winnipeg and Canada’s history and the importance of meaningfully working with Indigenous people to boost Canada’s trades and apprenticeship system were a key takeaway from this conference. From the deeply inspiring call to action keynote by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair…Read More