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This episode is brought to you in partnership with Supply Chain Manitoba and the Manitoba Trucking Association, working together to support workforce development and a stronger future for the industry here in Manitoba. Now.

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Welcome to the Move Rural Canada podcast, where every week we showcase incredible businesses and rural and northern Canada businesses that are not only growing but are looking to hire. We're here to show you companies and communities outside of the big cities that are building stronger and more inclusive workplaces, workplaces that want and are encouraging newcomers, immigrants and refugees to work with them.

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Let us be your guides to help you find the best places in Canada to not only emigrate, but build a career in Seattle. I'm your host, Leah Mitchell, and I am your co-host, Lindsey Rubini. Join us as you learn about all of the amazing career opportunities in places that you may not have ever thought of moving. Let's get started.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to Move Rural Canada. And today we have a lovely guest from northern Manitoba, Maggie Taylor. And she is the airport and infrastructure manager of Thomson Regional Airport. And so she is very well suited to discuss employment in regards to the Northern Aviation sector. So thank you for joining us. Maggie. Hi. Thank you. It's, it's a pleasure to join you today.

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Yeah, we're really excited to have you on because I believe, the correct me if I'm wrong, but, Maggie is our first northern guest for our podcast. Well, she's our first northern company. We did interview the PA, but your first. Yeah, workplace. So we're very excited because I'm a big believer in moving north for opportunities. So this is exciting.

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So yeah. And then Maggie will have one north of the thought. So yeah. Yeah. So you're the actually the most furthest north end. Yes. You definitely beat them. So Maggie, before we get on with that, can you tell us a little bit about the Thompson Regional Airport and what the company does at the industry, the size, who you employ?

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So just so our audience gets to know not only who you are, but what your company does and what it involves. We are, as the name suggests, we are an airport. We also have branched off into, cold weather research, and testing for vehicles and for equipments and different types of things. Actually, we're in the process of rebranding, right now, so that's going to be coming up soon, which is exciting.

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But as a as an airport operator. So we operate the Thompson Airport, which is the second busiest airport in Manitoba. It's we have an incredible amount of flights annually. We service the northern communities that are either flying only or access only by winter roads. So as far as, employment opportunities with us, we have, oh, you name it, we have equipment operators, we have security guards, we have accounting people, we have administrative people.

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We have, we have all types of, people in our employment. Also, we're opening a brand new terminal building. So, we're looking for electricians. We're looking for H-back people. We're we're actually. And with our cold weather testing facility, we're expanding even more, looking for people to manage that site. When the in the winter time, when the testers are here and that type of thing.

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So we're actually quite diversified and growing by the sounds of it. Like you said it with the expansion. And so what, when will the new terminal be ready or I think the new terminal is actually scheduled to open mid January to mid February in there. I have of course it's Monday, so I haven't heard the latest update for this week, but yeah, yeah it always changes I'm sure.

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Right. Early 2026. How's that. Yeah yeah okay. Well that's good. Maggie, you just spoke about, innovation, and you were awarded it, cold weather testing. So that's, I think, a really interesting topic. If we could discuss that actually a little bit more in terms of people often think of a rural in northern Canada as not being innovative or, you know, awarded things.

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Right. So if you could tell people what that that is about and what you said and the type of employment opportunities that that brings with it. So we at our facility here at the airport, we have it's a large of a garage type, but it's, it's more like a hangar that has been converted into a garage type.

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So we can test different types of vehicles. We also have coal chambers here. So if the weather doesn't cooperate, which we're finding with global warming, it's getting harder and harder to get those -40 days. Those are vehicles where that equipment can go into the coal chambers and soak in there. And it I believe it goes down to -35.

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I say Laura would be more the expert on the on the cold weather testing than me. So I'll have to give her a give her a poke for that one. But, yeah. So we have other things that we have kind of on the back burner is there's been some, discussion around testing drones and, you know, pilotless aircraft, that type of thing.

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So there are actually there is a lot of different things that that can be tested in the North. And outside of, you know, this is not affiliated with the Thompson Airport, but it is a a facility that is here is the jet engine test facility. So there, this facility is about ten kilometers south of town, and they actually test, jet engines.

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I believe it is, National Research Council. Pratt and Whitney, Navy and one other, organization is involved in that. But, yeah. So, I mean, it's it's not just vehicles. It's not just, you know, there is there is more here, definitely more. And there's still all of the airlines that come to the Thompson Airport as well.

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Right? You have the test and you have the airport, but you have all the and I know that cause my husband, used to work for Comair, so, Yeah, like, I mean, there's there's all the different airlines as well. And you have multiple ones. We do, we have we have Comair, we have perimeter. We have, I believe five medevac cases.

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So there is Sky North fast air, custom helicopters has trauma flight helicopter based. Here we have Prairie helicopters. There's, Northstar aviation is a huge freight disbursement company. They fly freight into the northern stores in, northern Manitoba and, and northern Canada. So, I mean, there is huge, huge, opportunity. And everyone in the north is screaming for employees.

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There was actually Manitoba Aviation Council just put on an introduction to Northern Aviation. Course here. Actually, we did it. That area 55, which is what we call our cold weather test facility. And, it's to, introduce young people from the north to different areas of aviation that they can go into. So there is, you know, aircraft, maintenance there is working as a rampage and there's pilots there.

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You know, there's all types of there's working at the airport as an equipment operator. So there are all types of different areas that, that, young people can go into in aviation. So make it. Do you we see that you have that specifically for the North. Is there avenues that you guys are exploring to engage people that in other parts of Canada, perhaps, because it sounds like you guys have lots of opportunity north.

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We absolutely do. And the Northern Aviation program was actually that is Manitoba Aviation Council and the Northern, Oh my goodness, I'm having a is that the like the Northern Sector Council? Yes. The northern sector. Yes. Thank you very much for that. So we were we were involved in so much as we, we had the space to hold the program at the airport, which is exciting for the students because of course, they can look out the window and see the planes come and go.

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And, I mean, I know when I was young, that was the most exciting thing for me, was watching planes. And so we also take part in we've taken on three students, so we can introduce them to, the things that our operators do here. So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's a great opportunity for, for people, young people from the north or young people looking to move north because, you know, there's there's definitely opportunity to become an apprentice ammy or to work as an equipment operator at the airport or to, there's a pilot program, that they have here in the summertime.

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Unknown
For students, they can learn how to fly. So that is the Arctic Mason indigenous pathway program, I believe it is called, and that is, run all summer long here. And then those students get an opportunity to go on and get their they come out with their private pilot license, and they have an opportunity to go on, take their commercial private, sorry, a commercial license and then come back and fly planes.

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Unknown
Well, and it's nice that people don't have to leave Thomson to get their education and training, right. I mean, it's, you know, it's it's, six, seven hour drive. Yes. Yeah. So, I mean, it's I mean, people do it, but at the same time, it's it's nice that you can stay close to home, you can get your training and you can get a really good job, and, and, and live in an affordable community.

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I always tell people we bought our first house in Thompson, and it was a three bedroom bungalow. I mean, this was, you know, 20 years ago, but we paid 115,000. Now we had to do work on it. But still, I mean, that was an amazing price looking. Absolutely. And and Thompson is a very affordable place to live. And, I mean, if you love, if you want to go shopping every weekend, Thompson is not for you.

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But if you love the outdoors, Thompson is the place to be. There is, you know, so much that can be, be done here. So can you explain more like so what? What type of outdoor activities? Because, Lee and I just had a long chat about what you can do in the winter time and how to prepare for it.

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So what type of activities, do people usually do up north and Thompson in the wintertime there is canoeing, there's ice fishing. There is Mystery Mountain ski hill. So there's, downhill skiing. There's cross-country skiing there. There's cross-country ski trails around, not just outside of town, but just across the river. It's good trails. We have some of the best skidoo trails in in Thompson.

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Between Thompson, you can go all the way to Flint. Florence, Snow Lake, you know, you can go quite a distance. And they're all groomed, ice fishing at Peak Lake. It's it's about a I've done it. It's about a 35 minute skidoo ride, through through the bush and on some beautiful trails, and you get to see some, some beautiful landscapes that you wouldn't normally get to see.

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And, and then you're on Paint Lake and there's ice fishing. There's a Marina there, a lot of people, we'll just go to the Marina just for lunch. It's, you know, if you don't have a skidoo and you just want to get out for the day, it's a 20 minute drive. On the highway. So there is so much, so much to do.

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And, I mean, and then there's just the the Millennium Trail. If you just want to go for a hike, you can go for a hike on the Millennium Trail. It's a beautiful trail that goes all around town. The majority of it is on the Burntwood River. And I mean, it's you're just out and in nature and, you know, it's it's beautiful.

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Unknown
And I would add to that for people who are wondering, it's very much I call it like the white shell. If you go sort of eastern Manitoba, you know, that Kenora, that area, it's very much, you know, that the beautiful rocks, the pine trees and all of that and that ski hill is amazing. I remember going there and being like, I could not believe that was I was a beautiful ski hill.

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Unknown
So I it's great. Yeah. And there's lots to do to you know in the winter indoors and Thompson there's lots of great. You know I remember when I was up there, there was like a film festival, though, there was all kinds of great activities that you could be very involved with in the community as well. There is and there's a well, I mean, I say it's been a couple of years, but it's actually probably been more like 10 or 15 years ago.

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Unknown
They, built the TRC. So the Thompson Regional Community Center, there's the two arenas there. There's a big gym. There's, a smaller fitness area, for people to work out. And there's always all types of hockey or skating or programs going on. At the TRC, we actually are in we should I believe, next year, have our new pool built, which will be adjacent to the TRC.

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Unknown
So everything is going to be nice and close. If you've got, you know, one child that's in hockey, you can run the other one over the swimming lessons and that type of thing. So I mean, there is definitely I know when, when, I first moved here, I moved here in 2000 for five years. So here I am 25 years later, still here.

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There was you know, three children, there's scouts, there's Girl Guides, there's all types of, clubs and programs, that you can involve your children in. There's for adults. They're always looking for volunteers for a number of service clubs. I volunteered with Ducks Unlimited for years and years and years, but there's, you know, there's there is so much to do if you want to get involved.

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Unknown
Yeah. No. Exactly. And it's a large size community. Right. You guys are around 13,000, I think. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's, I believe it's just over 13,000 people that that live in the community. But then there's all those people from the outlying communities that that come in. They do their shopping, they have their medical appointments. It's a service center for them.

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Unknown
So, I mean, it's it's just it's it's a busy, busy place. Well, that's good to make. Let's expand on that. I know that, there are interested people that are looking for new opportunities within Canada, and some of those are newcomers to Canada. Are those looking, to get an education. And that may not be from, Canada necessarily.

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Unknown
And so there's Yukon, which is University College of the North, and there's a campus located right on right, I should say right in Thompson. You know, do you see a lot of people taking advantage of those opportunities? Have you, knows, more diversity within Thompson or what's your personal thought on that? Absolutely. And you see and is again, it was built around the same time as the TRC.

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Unknown
So it's actually attached to the the conservation of, community center. And there is so many different programs that, people can take. There's nursing, there's business, there's apprenticeship programs that you can that you can take through, you see, and, and and again, when we go back to these, the, the people in the North that may be, you know, they, they move here with young children and, you know, the children graduate high school.

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Unknown
Maybe the kids don't want to go away. Maybe they want to take their education here in Thompson. And they they have the ability to do that here in Thompson. When we talk about, like you said, families and people moving. What what would you suggest to someone who is living in the South or, say, living in Toronto, or even someone who's new to, like, a newcomer looking to sort of get better opportunities?

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Unknown
Are there suggestions you would tell them to do, or things you'd recommend them to do before they move, or things to research? Or what are your thoughts on that? For people who maybe aren't used to living in the North, you know that sort of thing. Honestly, I believe that you either love living in the North or you don't.

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Unknown
There's there's no in-between. You're either. And I know for me personally, I am not a city person. I when I go to Winnipeg for the weekend or for to visit family, you know, two days and I'm crawling the walls. There's too much traffic. It takes me too long to get places and that type of thing. So kind of at the beginning I said, you know, if you want somewhere where you can go shopping on the weekend.

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Unknown
Thompson isn't it because you've got some very limited, very limited stores. But if if you love the outdoors and if you want, I mean, like you were saying earlier, housing is very affordable here. If you want or you want the ability to own a home or to, start a business, there is, community features, North Central Development Corporation, there's, you know, community economic development Fund.

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Unknown
There's all kinds of of programs and loans that can be had for people that come to the North that maybe want to start a business, want to start a franchise. And there's there's a need for it here. There definitely is a need for it here. And I don't think that there is, any business in northern Manitoba that isn't screaming for employees, well, necessary.

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Unknown
You know, you might come up one, maybe one partner gets a job, but guarantee the other person will be able to find a job. There's. That was exactly why we moved north. My, husband was working with was transferred to a different plane, and. And I was a new teacher, and I knew I could get a job in Thompson, you know, and we came up and had an amazing experience.

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Unknown
I would say my second year I was head of my department. That never would have happened down in the South. No. Exactly, exactly. And that and that's exactly it. There are two types of opportunity within education with the School District of Missouri, like with UCM. You know, there's valley, there's the mine here. There's all types of different, opportunity for professionals and, and people that maybe aren't professionals but want to become professionals.

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Unknown
You know, be it at trade or at, you know, engineer, whatever the opportunity is here in the North for sure. So maybe so what you're suggesting is that even if you start out in an entry level position, be it if you're somebody that relocates from a larger urban center from within Canada or a newcomer that arrives here, that there's opportunity to, you know, start, you know, at the entry level position and, and move up.

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Unknown
Absolutely, absolutely. I did it myself. I did it myself. I moved here, from Saskatoon when I moved here. And I actually started out, with the Thompson Airport as a statistician. So I worked three days a week, part time. I had little kids at home. And, so that was back in 2001. So here I am.

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Unknown
You know, 24 years later. And, I'm managing this incredibly busy airport with so much opportunity here, not just with the airport, but with the companies that that have leases here at the airport. Do you think if you would have stayed in Saskatoon, you would have been given the same opportunities? Not in a million years. Now, you also have to be willing to work for it too.

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Unknown
I mean, there was lots of times where I put the kids to bed and then I, I did my courses online and that type of thing. So I mean, but the point is, is and especially now after Covid, there is that opportunity to do those things. You it's a lot easier to get an education and do it virtually than it was ten years ago or, you know, even six years ago.

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Unknown
Well, and in a flexible manner. Right. So that if you need to work and like you said, put your kids to bed, you can, you know, take 1 or 2 classes, you don't have to take a full course load, you know, and do things like that. Absolutely, absolutely. So if someone wants to apply at the Thompson airport or is there a certain process like, you know, I don't know, I think we're probably all the same generation where, you know, you went in and had in your resume and introduced yourself.

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Unknown
Is that still sort of a thing? Like if people listen to this podcast, can they reach out to chat more, or is there a certain process that people should follow to to apply or find out about upcoming opportunities, things like that? They can add solutely, pop into the office and drop off the resumé. Or I mean, the great thing about Thompson is, yes, there is 13,000 people here, but it's still very, very much small town.

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Unknown
So if somebody popped in and said, you know, hey, I'm really interested in becoming a, an EMT, say, you know, where would I drop off a resume or who could I talk to? We would absolutely give them, you know. Well, here, here's this person's name there with a license, maintenance, you know, give them a call. They can probably help you.

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Unknown
So there's very much that small town, you know, help each other out, attitude. I mean, we still do things the old fashioned way. You can also check our website. We do job postings on our website. We do job postings on our social media. But yeah, absolutely. Still still back in the day. It still works for us.

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Unknown
I still think it's the best way in terms of if someone comes to Thompson, you know, we talked about affordable housing, but how is it in terms of, let's say, renting, do you know and know where is if you don't know so much in that realm, is that a challenge? I don't I, I don't know if it is a challenge and or not.

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Unknown
I'm really not familiar with it. Like, I mean, there are a lot of properties, as far as cost. Oh, I'm not sure. Okay. But there are places to rent. Like, it's not that not there's not a huge shortage. Often we talk to people and they say there's it's hard to find a place to rent, but there is places there definitely is places.

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Unknown
Yeah. There's townhouses, there's apartments. There's, you know, houses. There's there's, private, landlords who have, you know, trailers or duplexes or that type of thing. So there are places to rent. Definitely. Is there a central housing board or anything that people can go to that you're aware of? Or if it's more just like it, you probably have I times and Facebook, I believe you have a Thompson.

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Unknown
Yeah. We do the Thompson Rentals, Facebook page. Yeah, we've but yeah, most people they will go on, say the Thompson Facebook page and they will. If they can't find anything, they will ask for. There's also you can go to some of the real estate agents here will handle rentals for people that maybe, you know, they have a couple of rentals but they no longer live here.

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Unknown
But, you know, so they'll they'll be the, the property manager for them. So I mean, there are definitely options. And I mean, if you look on Facebook again on Facebook, there's always people advertising, properties for rent making and you know, before we wrap up, we saw a couple more questions. But I don't want to forget about asking you specifically.

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Unknown
You had talked about you have many opportunities within the Thompson Regional Airport and I hear often from young people or newcomers that, you know, they may not, that they don't have the qualifications that sometimes employers are looking for within a job. But can you give people tips in terms of, you know, maybe work ethic beats, you know, having, certain amount of qualifications unless it's regulated, right.

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Unknown
But, so what kind of things do you look for in an employee, especially a new one that maybe doesn't have, much Canadian experience or. Yeah, or a young person that wouldn't have much work experience that lives here in Canada. We actually love people that don't have a lot of experience because we get to train them how we want them.

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Unknown
Operating equipment at the, at at an airport is, is, night and day from, say, operating a piece of equipment for the city. You know, there are all kinds of regulations regarding, snow removal and that type of thing at an airport. That you don't have to follow in a normal clearing. A parking lot in the city say, so we love it when we get people that have no experience because we can train them properly, and we have hired people that haven't even touched a loader, actually.

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Unknown
And we've trained them right from the ground up. One of the actually the other things that, we have here because we're located, we're both eight kilometers from the city of Toronto. We actually have a water treatment plant. So that is another. No, we don't have a full time operator for it. We have, I've said there's there's four of us that that operate it.

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Unknown
We take turns. But I mean, that's another we treat we pay for that training for people to any specialized training like the water treatment, plant, security guards, if they we have somebody apply that, they don't have their security guard license. We'll help. We'll pay for that. So, I mean, and I and I think in the North, you find there are a lot more employers who are willing to do that just to get the people.

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Unknown
So, yeah, I mean, also work ethic, showing up on time, you know, don't let your coworkers down kind of thing, like, that, that is big. But yeah, we love people that are trained. And is there to I don't want to make any such. But sometimes some, businesses, the companies offer things like Northern Allowance as well.

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Unknown
Right. Is that something? Yeah. Actually, for us, we have, it all depends on most. Most companies here are, unionized. So they have a collective bargaining agreement. So, we do have a northern travel, benefit in our collective bargaining agreement. So. And most companies in the North you will find do have that or remote remoteness allowance.

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Unknown
Yes. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Most companies will offer that. It's an additional incentive to bring people north. One I know for me it was, you know, I had a short amount of days if I wanted to keep, let's say, my medical doctor in the South, I could take days to go visit them.

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Unknown
So I think it's for people who are worried about, well, what if I have supports I need to make? You know, most employers are very accommodating in the sense that, yes, we understand you might need to go south, you know, more often than normal, just because of those appointments. So that's not something to you find that more. I for me personally, I know coming from Saskatoon, to Thompson, employers in the north actually offer a lot more benefits too.

00:28:16:04 - 00:28:51:02
Unknown
Yeah. Yes, I absolutely agree. Yeah. You know what? What those benefits be sick. We. You know, the extended, health benefits, insurance, vacation time, the travel allowance or the remoteness allowance that, that we were talking about earlier, a lot of the, employers in northern Manitoba offer those types of incentives to get people in the North working and a higher than average wage.

00:28:51:07 - 00:29:10:15
Unknown
Yeah. And affordable housing. So I mean, it's it's a win win. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, people, you know, you're hearing about a lot right now, you know, like we're in a recession or I don't know if we are we aren't if we're accurate actually or not. Or and then you hear, oh, I can't find a job or I'm underemployed, you know, I'm not getting paid.

00:29:10:17 - 00:29:35:16
Unknown
You know what I think I'm worth? So I think northern Manitoba has a lot of great opportunity in terms of, you know, in terms of pay, in terms of benefits, in terms of housing and just recreational opportunities for you, for everyone. Right? So, to say that and then not to look, you know, in places where people may not usually like in, in places like we're all in northern Manitoba.

00:29:35:16 - 00:29:57:23
Unknown
So I think it's, you know, looking at Thompson is a really great strategy for a young person or somebody that's newly arrived to Canada. Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, even if you only come for five years. It can sometimes turn into 25. But I think there's a lot of people who. Yeah, I knew a few people who were I came for two years and now it's been 20.

00:29:57:23 - 00:30:19:04
Unknown
Yeah. And you know what? Thompson has been fantastic to me. I cannot I cannot complain about my life here at all. I love the outdoors. I have been given a lot of opportunities in the 25 years that I have been in Thompson that I would have never, ever gotten and had I lived south. So it's been awesome.

00:30:19:04 - 00:30:44:01
Unknown
Thompson has been fantastic. It's been fantastic to me. Yeah. And to my kids. Yeah. Yeah. No. And that's even great. Yeah. Even better. So we're winding up here. We always like to highlight something that's really, you know, to showcase. So if you were going to recommend a place in Thompson. So is it maybe like a location or a restaurant, is there somewhere that you would recommend people make sure to go to?

00:30:44:03 - 00:31:02:18
Unknown
Yeah. Where to come for the day. What would you tell us to do? Yeah, well, I would probably tell you to go to Paint Lake Marina. That's what I would probably tell you. And I mean, regardless of whether it was summer or what, but again, I love the outdoors. So if you had a vehicle, I would say take a drive to Paint Lake.

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Unknown
Had some lunch at the Marina, you know, take a walk around the park. If you don't have a vehicle, I would say take a walk down the Millennium Trail. Check out our wolves statues that we have located around town. The spirit way. You know, there's there is so much to see. There is so much to see in the North.

00:31:23:21 - 00:31:50:06
Unknown
And I mean, it's a five minute drive and you can be in the middle of nowhere. And I mean, how often do you guys get to see a bear or a moose or, you know, a fox or a wolf on your way to work? We see it all the time. Yeah, I do, I get to, I do, I see probably on and I'm not even over exaggerating 2 to 3 red foxes every time, like every day.

00:31:50:08 - 00:32:07:17
Unknown
And so I looked it up. And it means I'm adaptable and has all these things. Right. But it's just like yeah, but yet you see and then yeah, driving is fun because you do get to see bears. You do get seamless. You do get to see all this fun stuff. Right? So it's better than just driving by and seeing building after building the human after human.

00:32:07:19 - 00:32:29:12
Unknown
Right. Yeah. It's different. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, thank you so much, Maggie, for coming on today and chatting about the Thompson Regional Airport, about Thompson, about what it's like to live there. You know, like, I said, I'm we're big believers in showcasing these opportunities because I don't think people really realize what's there for them. And so to have someone to come on and really speak about it, it's it's it's great.

00:32:29:16 - 00:32:45:21
Unknown
You know, people can learn more and hopefully we'll have you. And for me, we'll put your information out there and people can reach out if they have questions. So thank you everyone, once again for listening. Was there anything you'd like to add, Maggie? No, I just wanted to say thank you very much. And, we look forward to welcoming some new people to talks.

00:32:45:21 - 00:33:02:21
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And if you if you're listening, come on up. Oh, I love that. Okay. All right, well thanks everyone once again. And we will see you next time on the Move Rule podcast. Until next time. Liberal. Liberal.

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