Labour
Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Businesses need to start new schools to develop future employees who are ready to work
Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Businesses need to start new schools to develop future employees who are ready to work
Talk to any business leader and you’ll hear it’s a daily problem: an owner or manager, looking at 22 sub-par applications for an opening in their company. Or worse, yet just as common, business owners panicking as an application window closes because they...
Government , Labour
Feds invest in Alberta skilled trades training
EDMONTON – The federal government is investing more than $1.1 million in funding...
Labour
Alberta invests $1.2 million in labour market research centre
EDMONTON – The Government of Alberta is putting more than $1.2 million towards a...
Government , Labour
Saskatchewan to spend $1.92 million on two skilled trades centres
REGINA, SASK. – The government of Saskatchewan is allocating $1.92 million in fu...
Government , Labour
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Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Businesses need to start new schools to develop future employees who are ready to work
Talk to any business leader and you’ll hear it’s a daily problem: an owner or ma...
Government , Labour
Feds invest in Alberta skilled trades training
EDMONTON – The federal government is investing more than $1.1 million in funding...
Labour
Alberta invests $1.2 million in labour market research centre
EDMONTON – The Government of Alberta is putting more than $1.2 million towards a...
Government , Labour
Saskatchewan to spend $1.92 million on two skilled trades centres
REGINA, SASK. – The government of Saskatchewan is allocating $1.92 million in fu...
Government , Labour
Stakeholders spar: What’s to blame for declining homebuilding productivity?
Two recently published articles on homebuilding productivity in Canada, one buil...
Labour
Labour board orders rail workers back on the job, as Teamsters vow to appeal
OTTAWA - The federal labour board has ordered thousands of rail employees back t...
Government , Labour
Avison Young outlines consequences of rail strike
TORONTO - Real estate adviser Avison Young has issued a statement warning about...
Government , Labour
Teamsters take down picket lines at CN, stoppage continues at CPKC
OTTAWA — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket line...
Labour
‘Impacts cannot be understated’: Ottawa intervenes to get railways moving again
Ottawa ordered up binding arbitration Thursday to get freight trains moving agai...
Government , Labour
National rail shutdown begins as employees locked out at both major Canadian railways
MONTREAL — In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways ha...
Economic , Labour
B.C. supply chain association warns members to prepare for rail strike
SURREY, B.C. — The National Institute of Supply Chain Leaders BC (NISCL BC) is w...
Labour
Railway shutdown would be ‘devastating’ for small businesses: CFIB
MONTREAL — A potential work stoppage at Canada's two major railways this week wo...
Economic , Labour
Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Canada’s ‘can do’ spirit stifled by bad policies
It sounds so simple. Canada’s construction industry could build more for less....
Associations , Government , Labour
Feds announce next round of UTIP funding
OTTAWA — The federal government has announced it will spend $74.6 million on 124...
Government , Labour
Skilled worker campaigns need to be targeted to fill construction void: ECA
Alberta is Calling, the government multimillion-dollar recruiting program geared...
Associations , Labour
Racialized workers less likely to be unionized: report
OTTAWA — Black and racialized workers in Canada are less likely to be represente...
Economic , Labour
Ottawa considers changes to reduce number of temporary foreign workers in Canada
OTTAWA — The federal government is considering new regulations that could make f...
Government , Labour
CFBC discusses First Nations’ woman’s experience in the skilled trades
TERRACE, B.C. — During a recent Discover Trades Camp, the Construction Foundatio...
Labour
Conservative candidate’s union endorses NDP candidate in Winnipeg byelection
WINNIPEG - More than a dozen labour leaders are endorsing the NDP candidate in a...
Government , Labour
Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon sworn in as labour minister, replacing O’Regan
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals' new minister for labour and seniors is Steven Mac...
Government , Labour
Your top JOC headlines: July 15 to 19
Your top JOC headlines this week feature a story on Canada’s infrastructure defi...
Infrastructure , Labour , Projects
Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan leaving cabinet, sources say
OTTAWA - Two sources with knowledge of the situation say federal labour minister...
Government , Labour
CFBC highlights carpenter’s journey to Red Seal
CHILLIWACK, B.C. – The Construction Foundation of British Columbia (CFBC) is shi...
Labour
Union ratifies agreement, concrete strike averted
VANCOUVER – A possible concrete strike in the Lower Mainland has been averted....
Labour
BCIT welding students join forces with robots
BURNABY, B.C. – Welding students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology...
Labour , Technology
CFBC graduate builds outdoor adventure business
CLEARWATER, B.C. – A Construction Foundation of BC (CFBC) program graduate is ta...
Labour
Alberta establishes foreign credential advisory committee
EDMONTON – The Government of Alberta is establishing an advisory committee to im...
Government , Labour
Ontario, Alberta announce MOU to work to recognize worker credentials
CALGARY — The governments of Ontario and Alberta have reached an agreement to co...
Government , Labour
BCCA president cites progress on immigration file but says more work needed
British Columbia Construction Association (BCCA) president Chris Atchison says w...
Associations , Labour
Concrete strike averted, Teamsters Local 213 says
VANCOUVER – A possible concrete strike has been averted for now, according to a...
Labour
Trade perception shifting as SkilledTradesBC sees record numbers
The perception of the trades as a career is shifting as record numbers of both f...
Labour
Teamsters Local 213 issues 72-hour strike notice that may stall concrete production
VANCOUVER - A concrete strike may be looming in the Lower Mainland. On July 2 T...
Labour
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Saskatchewan to spend $1.92 million on two skilled trades centres
REGINA, SASK. – The government of Saskatchewan is allocating $1.92 million in fu...
Government , Labour
Canada’s first-ever tsunami evacuation tower built at Haida Gwaii school
MASSET, B.C. – Students in Masset, B.C. will soon learn in a safer school that i...
Projects
Climate and Construction: Natural gas bans hit a legal shut-off valve
Ambitions to ban the new installations of natural gas appliances and mechanical...
Government , US News
Stakeholders spar: What’s to blame for declining homebuilding productivity?
Two recently published articles on homebuilding productivity in Canada, one buil...
Labour
Canada ‘walking the talk’ to sustainable infrastructure future: KPMG
Canada is walking the talk when it comes to embracing sustainable technology and...
Government , Infrastructure
BC Conservative leader lays out construction policies at VRCA event
VANCOUVER - One of now two remaining contenders vying to lead British Columbia l...
Associations , Government
Legal Notes: Crown loses “employer” appeal in landmark Sudbury case
The Superior Court of Ontario issued a ruling on August 23 that is certain to br...
Government
Ledcor leads off with first phase of $2B Alberta Highway 3 twinning
Ledcor Highways Ltd. is leading off work on the first of eight phases planned to...