A Saturday flood in E Building will have no impact on College operations at the Ottawa campus on Tuesday as students and employees will be able to return to work and classes as usual.
Crews had worked through the long weekend to clean and repair areas of the first, second and third floors of the building that had been damaged by a tap on the third floor. Damage to equipment in the Students’ Association offices was reported and some walls, ceilings and floor areas were affected.
A water-damage restoration company, Xpertek, was expected to remain on site until late Monday afternoon and was working with Physical Resources and Security Services to assess damage and dry affected areas.
Affected areas were expected to be re-opened to pedestrian traffic once crews finished their work for the day, though remediation and repair work will continue through the week.
No other buildings were affected.
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Crews are working throughout the long weekend to clean and repair areas in the Ottawa Campus’s E Building that were affected by water damage on Saturday.
Flooding is believed to have been caused by a tap on the third floor of the E Building, which caused water damage on the third, second and first floors. Damage to equipment in the Students’ Association offices has also been reported and some walls, ceilings and floor areas have been affected. Continue reading Crews working to repair flood damage in E Building
I am pleased to report that, after a successful day of work, Hydro Ottawa crews have completed work near our Ottawa campus and power has been restored to all areas.
I would like to thank everyone for their patience as we worked around this electrical shutdown, especially those students and employees who needed to relocate for today’s classes and labs. I would especially like to thank the teams from Physical Resources, Security Services, ITS, and other individuals who worked through the weekend or who were on call to minimize disruption for our College community.
Please note that it can sometimes take a bit of time to restore all building systems to normal operating levels, but rest assured that the appropriate personnel will be on hand today and tomorrow to make sure that we are back to business as usual as soon as possible.
Restaurant International lived up to its name on Wednesday afternoon as it hosted an audience from around the world for a special graduation ceremony.
The ceremony celebrated students graduating from a new course in the School of Hospitality and Tourism that is aimed at new Canadians — all of the students graduating are Syrian refugees. The course is intended to help newcomers to Canada with language training, kitchen skills, workplace safety, and the transition from one culture to another. Continue reading Syrian refugees take centre stage at special AC grad ceremony
On June 26, Algonquin College brought together more than 80 community partners to thank them for their contributions to the Local Employment Planning Council (LEPC), hosted at the College, over the past year.
The LEPC pilot has been extended for a second phase, running from June 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 2018.
Cheryl Jensen, President of Algonquin College, noted the College will continue “to work with our community partners on the next phase of actions in support of job-seekers, employers, employment services agencies and, perhaps most importantly, the young people who will be dreaming up new careers and pathways that will challenge us to continually evolve.”
The LEPC pilot, known locally as Ottawa Employment Hub, is one of eight pilots across the province, funded since December 2015 in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. The LEPC project aims to pilot a network of local intermediaries to improve labour market conditions in local communities through enhanced collection and distribution of local labour market data, and community engagement to drive local approaches in the planning and delivery of employment and training services.
“The support of such a diverse range of community stakeholders has truly inspired Ottawa Employment Hub to continue to harness this collective knowledge and energy during the second phase of the pilot,” said Ingrid Argyle, Ottawa Employment Hub Program Manager. “We look forward to continue working toward both provincial and local mandates through this opportunity afforded us by the Ontario government.”
Over the past year, Ottawa Employment Hub worked in partnership with a more than 150 stakeholders, including local employers, community leaders, service providers, and education and training institutions.
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa Community Coalition for Literacy, and Employment Ontario Ottawa Network (represented by John Howard Society’s Community Employment Resource Centre) house LEPC staff to help drive these partnerships.
This year saw more than 400 people attend the LEPC’s Building Your Human Capital/Building Connections event in March where Ottawa employers and service providers came together to find out how they could work more closely together to connect Ottawa job seekers and students to jobs and career paths.
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For more information:
Jean-Guy Fréchette
Associate Director
Government and Stakeholder Relations, Algonquin College
Office: 613-727-4723 ext. 6427
frechej@algonquincollege.com
About Algonquin College:
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The mission of Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is to transform hopes and dreams into lifelong success. Algonquin College, an Ontario public sector community college, does this by offering hands-on, digitally connected, experiential learning in more than 185 programs. Based in the Ottawa Valley, Algonquin College is the largest polytechnic institute in Eastern Ontario.
OTTAWA — Companies in Ottawa seeking support with big data technologies now have a new resource, thanks to funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Algonquin College.
Algonquin College today formally announced that it will receive $2.3 million over five years ($460,000 per year) to fund a new Data Analytics Centre which will work with local and national partners to harness the power of big data for the purposes of data mining, machine learning for predictive analytics, and distributed intelligence. This initiative is the first of its kind in the Canadian college system, and will join Algonquin College’s six applied research centres under its Office of Partnerships, Applied Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Continue reading Big Data Takes A Big Step In Ottawa Thanks To New Applied Research Centre
This Saturday Algonquin College will be honouring Ken Shoultz, the first principal of the Ontario Vocational Centre, Ottawa, and the first Dean of the Technology Centre for Algonquin College, with a special ceremony and reception.
The event is one of many this year that will mark the 50th anniversary of Algonquin College, which was born when the Ontario Vocational Centre, Ottawa, and the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology merged in 1967. Continue reading Algonquin to honour pioneer of the College
OTTAWA — Algonquin College is pleased to host The Honourable Bardish Chagger, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister of Small Business and Tourism, to its School of Hospitality and Tourism on Friday.
“It is such an honour to have Minister Chagger visit us and spend time with our learners,” said Algonquin President Cheryl Jensen. “Our School of Hospitality and Tourism has produced some of Canada’s best-known and most respected chefs, hoteliers, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs, who are working across the country and around the world.” Continue reading Minister Bardish Chagger to make announcement about culinary tourism at Algonquin College
On Wednesday morning, Algonquin College’s School of Hospitality and Tourism hosted the formal announcement of the Pre-Apprenticeship Fund by the Honourable Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Infrastructure and MPP Ottawa West-Nepean, and Marie-France Lalonde, Ontario’s Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services and MPP Ottawa-Orléans.
Announced in front of a full house in the Philip Killeen Hospitality Foyer, the Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program supports the Government of Ontario’s focus on increasing the number of new entrants to apprenticeship programs while addressing skilled trade shortages. Continue reading Algonquin College Hosts Pre-Apprenticeship Fund Announcement
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