Centennial College will build a new aerospace campus at the old Downsview air force base with $44.2 million from the federal and Ontario governments, better linking students with the industry. “We’re trying to break down the barriers,” Premier Kathleen Wynne said Monday in announcing the funding with federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan. Ontario taxpayers are providing $25‎.8 million toward the $72 million project slated to open in 2019, with the federal government ponying up $18.4 million and Centennial College and other donors making up the remaining $28 million. The campus will include the historic de Havilland building — where 1,000 lightweight two-engine Mosquito bombers were made in the Second World War. “You could say this is hallowed ground,” said Centennial president Ann Buller, who added the campus at Downsview Park just east of Keele and Sheppard will help “good jobs flourish in a part‎ of the city that needs them.”

Source: thestar November 21, 2016 16:46 UTC