Doing well, doing good in Canada

A meat-cutting school on the Sandy Bay First Nation reserve on the western shore of Lake Manitoba is training workers for jobs at the area’s HyLife pork processing plant and beyond. The first-of-its-kind partnership brings together a Canadian meat processor, an indigenous community and the federal government, The Western Producer reported. HyLife Ltd. recently completed a $176 million expansion of its pork processing facility in Neepawa, Manitoba, that added 165 jobs and is expected to help the company boost exports of fresh chilled pork.The idea for the meat-cutting school was hatched two years ago as an effort to involve more women in particular in the trades, the publication said. Sandy Bay leaders were looking for a way to launch more young people into the workforce, and Canada’s meat processing industry, as in the U.S., deals with a severe and chronic shortage of labor.