March 21/97

he lure of lower taxes

and opportunities for
jobs beyond hope in
Canada are major
incentives for graduates of
Capilano College’s Asia
Pacific Management
Program to leave home
and move to Asia. Since
1987, the program has
placed more than 250
associates and more than
97 per cent of its students
have completed
assignments in 14 Asian
countries.

Perhaps it is this
exodus of Canada’s
brightest talent, plus
the success of the
APMCP’s students,
that led the federal
government to
announce from
Capilano College on February 25 a
new program called Horizons Plus.

Horizons Plus is part of the
Canadian government’s Youth
Employment Strategy (YES)
launched on February 12. It will
match graduates who seek careers as
export managers with small and
medium-sized businesses, and is
expected to create numerous export
marketing jobs for participating
graduates. The program will begin in
Western Canada in April of this year.

“There are many young Canadians
who have invested in higher

education, but have been unable to find
work in their field,” said Industry
minister John Manley. “Our initiatives
will close this gap by bringing these
talented young people together with
organizations that need the skills they
have to offer.”

The minister made his announcement
at Capilano College at an event hosted
by the APMCP. Four students from the
program greeted the minister in a
multicultural manner. Mark Wong
spoke in Cantonese; Andrea Plawutsky
spoke in Mandarin; Johanna Shapira
(an alumna) spoke in Thai; and Sarah

APMCP’s Sarah
Grasset , Mark
Wong, Andrea
Plawutsky, and
program alumna
Johanna Shapira
greeted federal
industry minister
John Manley when
he visited the
College on
February 25.

Horizons Plus Launched
at Capilano College

Grasset spoke in Bahasa Indonesian and
French.

“These students from Capilano
College’s Asia Pacific Management
Cooperative Program are developing vital
skills that will help further Canada’s
global trade strategy in the world’s fastest
growing export market — Asia Pacific,”
the minister said. “It is estimated that in
its first eight years of operation, the
students and graduates of this program
have created $3 billion in two-way trade
and investment between Canada and 14
Asian countries. That is quite an
accomplishment.”

Jazz Studies Program Needs Your Support

he Capilano College jazz choir Nite
Cap is looking for partners for a
win-win Situation.

The premiere vocal jazz ensemble of
the College’s four-year Jazz Studies
program has been invited to perform
this July at Festival Canada, an
international choral festival at the
National Art Centre in Ottawa. To raise
funds for this exciting opportunity, jazz
students are selling their new compact
disk, Nite Cap, as well as some great

looking T-shirts and sweat shirts.

The merchandise is being sold out of
the Music office in Fir building, room
101. The CD is $15, T-shirts are $12 and
the sweat shirts are $27. The clothing
carries the new Jazz Studies logo.

Customers get a great product and
they help some deserving students fulfil
what could be the trip of a lifetime. Call
Mike Revely, coordinator of Jazz
Studies, at local 2305 for more
information.