March 28, 2012 - Skills/Compétences Canada (S/CC)—a not-for-profit organization promoting careers in skilled trades and technologies—has signed TransCanada Corp. as Premier Sponsor of the 2012 Skills Canada National Competition, being held in Edmonton in May.
January 27, 2012
Apprenticeship community comes together to address skills shortages
January 27, 2012 - Shortages in the skilled trades are already having an impact on Canadian employers, says the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA), issuing an early warning for the demographic crunch expected in the next decade. Construction, mining, energy, manufacturing and service sectors all report real and anticipated shortages that will pose a pan-Canadian challenge to the country’s economy, continues CAF.
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Editor Anthony Capkun sits with Elaine Gerrie, chair of the EFC Foundation Scholarship Committee, to learn more about the over…
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It has been one week since Siliken Canada Corp., a solar module manufacturer, announced it will be closing the doors of its Windsor, Ont., manufacturing plant, citing a drought of six months without new contracts as the primary reason for closure. But are other players in the industry also feeling the heat?
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The Ontario Electrical League is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. While at OEL’s 2012 Electrical Industry Conference in Ottawa, we chatted with a few electrical contractors, and OEL’s president Stephen Sell, to find out what professionals get out of membership.
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Thanks to Fluke for sending us this video showing one-handed operation of its thermal imagers with IR-Optiflex and IR-Fusion technology... leaving one hand free to battle industrial ninja assassins.
