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Your top JOC headlines: Sept. 18 to 22

Your top JOC headlines: Sept. 18 to 22
Your top JOC headlines this week feature coverage of BCIT’s $33 million funding announcement for the new trades and technology complex; PNE Amphitheatre demo is underway, but costs for the new build have risen; B.C. prompt payment is still moving slowly,...
Labour , Projects

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: B.C.’s CBA is good for business and good for society
We should be proud that our Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) is delivering wha...
Labour

Landscape architect Cormier leaves legacy of beloved public squares, parks
MONTREAL — Claude Cormier, founding principal of Claude Cormier & Associes L...
Labour

Federal government launches skilled trades awareness campaign
OTTAWA – The Government of Canada is launching a new awareness campaign to highl...
Government , Labour
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Your top JOC headlines: Sept. 18 to 22
Your top JOC headlines this week feature coverage of BCIT’s $33 million funding...
Labour , Projects

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: B.C.’s CBA is good for business and good for society
We should be proud that our Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) is delivering wha...
Labour

Landscape architect Cormier leaves legacy of beloved public squares, parks
MONTREAL — Claude Cormier, founding principal of Claude Cormier & Associes L...
Labour

Federal government launches skilled trades awareness campaign
OTTAWA – The Government of Canada is launching a new awareness campaign to highl...
Government , Labour

Surrey high schoolers fast-track into apprenticeship roles
A union local and Surrey contractor are collaborating to get students leaving hi...
Labour

Peak Products celebrates 25 years with donation of SFU grants
VANCOUVER - Home renovation company Peak Products is celebrating 25 years in bus...
Economic , Labour

Invisible, irreplaceable: rebar specialist Kit Steel takes pride in work nobody sees
The website for Welland, Ont.’s Kit Steel features photos of fully-completed pro...
Labour

BCIT adopts Ryder Architecture designed microcredential program
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is adopting a ve...
Labour

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Prevailing wage will benefit all skilled trades workers
In the 2023 federal budget, the government proposed Investment Tax Credits for g...
Associations , Labour

Saskatchewan announces Indigenous mining skills training funding
REGINA – The Government of Saskatchewan announced Sept. 1 a three-month agreemen...
Government , Labour

MHCA announces ‘barriers to entry’ survey results
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Heavy Construction Association (MHCA) has released the r...
Labour

BCIT appoints new dean for School of Construction and the Environment
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia Institute of Technology has announced Dr. Guido...
Labour

Survey: Sponsorship, not mentorship, the answer to advancing women in construction
What women really need in order to advance in the construction industry is spons...
Labour , US News

VIU program aims to help newcomers to Canada join the trades
NANAIMO, B.C. – Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Nanaimo, B.C. is introducin...
Labour

Group of Seven painting inspires historic barn restoration
When Dale and Dave Cox drove up with the real estate agent to the old property i...
Labour

Your top JOC headlines: Aug. 7 to 11
Your top JOC headlines this week feature an update, or lack thereof, on the Mani...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , Projects

Minister launches review of B.C. port strike case to uncover ‘structural issues’
VANCOUVER — Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan is launching an examination o...
Government , Labour

Terms of new contract that resolved B.C. port dispute released
VANCOUVER — The Canada Industrial Relations Board has released the new terms of...
Labour

BCRCC trains Indigenous tradespeople for Cowichan hospital project
DUNCAN, B.C. – The BC Regional Council of Carpenters (BCRCC) recently trained si...
Labour

Unifor president demands SNC Lavalin reinstate fired union head
MONTREAL - The head of Canada's largest private sector union is calling out SNC-...
Labour

Unemployment rate ticks up to 5.5% in July as job creation lags population growth
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says employment was little changed last month as the...
Economic , Labour

B.C. port workers ratify deal, ending long labour dispute
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's port workers have voted almost 75 per cent in fav...
Government , Labour , Resource

Union vote begins on B.C. port deal that could end months long dispute
VANCOUVER — A union vote among British Columbia port workers is underway to dete...
Labour

Early 2023 workforce stats for women look strong
Maybe, just maybe, efforts to recruit more women into the construction workforce...
Labour

Industrial board warns union bosses not to backtrack on new B.C. port deal
VANCOUVER — The union representing about 7,400 workers in the British Columbia p...
Labour

Breakthrough in B.C. port dispute as new tentative deal is reached
VANCOUVER — A late-night breakthrough could herald an end to British Columbia's...
Labour

B.C. port strike cost CPKC railway $80 million, exec says
The B.C. port workers' strike deprived Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. of scor...
Economic , Labour

Your top JOC headlines: July 24 to 28
Your top JOC headlines this week feature news a strike was averted at the Kitima...
Government , Labour , OH&S , Projects

Staff at lodge for LNG workers in Kitimat, B.C., win 40% pay bump, averting strike
KITIMAT, B.C. — Employees at a lodge housing workers for LNG Canada's under-cons...
Labour

B.C. port workers mull contract offer as expert warns of more labour strife
VANCOUVER — More large-scale disputes like the industrial action at British Colu...
Labour

B.C. port workers will set eyes on contract offer from maritime employers
VANCOUVER — Thousands of workers at British Columbia's ports will take off the d...
Labour

B.C. announces creation of trades-focused centre for clean energy
VANCOUVER — British Columbia is slated to become home to a new centre where peop...
Government , Labour
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
Projects , US News

Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
Infrastructure , Resource

Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical c...
Infrastructure , Projects

Mass timber ‘part of a collective solution’ to the housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis isn’t about to go away, but there are some strateg...
Resource

Climate and Construction: Cold formed steel is reshaping buildings of the future
Builders today are looking to construct projects in ways that are faster, more e...
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EllisDon, DIALOG experts layout key elements of hybrid timber floor system during seminar
A 40-foot-long cross-laminated timber panel was unheard of in the mass timber wo...
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CCA urges provincial funding for proposed $380M multi-sport fieldhouse
The Calgary Construction Association (CCA) is strongly supporting a proposed $38...
Infrastructure , Projects

Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – August 2023
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...