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Ottawa hopes $300,000 will be enough to help dozens of Northern Saskatchewan residents find work on the Alberta oil patch. That's how much the federal government recently invested in the Bridges for Employment program, aimed at putting people from the northwestern part of the province into jobs within the oil industry. The hope is that the program will help over 50 northerners find work in the industry, which often pays high wages. Applicants may register at any one of more than a dozen recruitment offices across the region, where they are pre-interviewed for employers in the Alberta oil-sands, CBC reported.6/4/04
