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YES Community Roundtable in Winnipeg

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YES hosted a successful Community Roundtable in Winnipeg on Wed May 15th. Over 150 people attended including the Honorable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, Markus Chambers – Deputy Mayor of City of Winnipeg, Ted Marcelino – MLA for Tyndall Park and Flor Marcelino – MLA for Logan as well as youth and local community partners. Attendees learned about YES’s innovative solutions to the pressing issue of youth employment and participants were engaged to share and discuss solutions together. We were joined by corporate leaders from Accenture, Rogers, RBC and many more.


The Honorable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour provided opening remarks


Sinead Mc Carthy, VP YES;Jeanette Emery, Vice-President of Public Affairs, Citi; Honorable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development; Honourable Otto Lang – Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, former Minster of Manpower and Immigration and former Transport Minister