Like many other sectors, the forest industry is currently facing a shortage in labour force resources. This shortage is forecasted to increase dramatically over the next 10 years as New Brunswick’s significant aging demographic moves into retirement. … [Read more...]
CFFO Announces Christopher Lee Memorial Scholarship
To honour the memory and legacy of Christopher Lee and to celebrate his innumerable contributions to the advancement of social and economic development in communities across Canada, CFFO has established the Christopher Lee Memorial … [Read more...]
Growing the Forest Sector Workforce
While it seems that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the labour crisis for the forest industry, both here in New Brunswick and across Canada, the pending labour shortages have been on the horizon for some time now in Atlantic Canada. The New … [Read more...]
Economic Recovery and Climate Change: Forest Sector Contributions to a Low Carbon Economy
As we find ourselves learning to live with a global pandemic, we are also facing some realities that have long been hovering at the edges of our collective conscious. Racism is real. Climate change is happening now. Economic health is directly … [Read more...]
Celebrating the 24 000 Employees
People in New Brunswick are all connected in some way to our forests. The many values we have are rooted in cultures, livelihood, conservation, and recreation. Many of these people work in the New Brunswick forest sector – 24,000 of them in fact. I … [Read more...]