Innovating Canada
skilled trades
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Trusted Newcomer Services Help Immigrants and Refugees Achieve Their Full Potential
With a bright future ahead, newcomers to Canada can smoothly transition to their new lives with help from Achēv, a leading provider of employment, newcomer, language and youth services.
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Skilled Refugees: Discovering Untapped Talent
Talent Beyond Boundaries envisions a world where forcibly displaced people can use their skills and talents to move to secure their futures.
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How to Help Your Daughter Explore Careers Outside of Your Comfort Zone
How to help your daughter explore careers outside of your comfort zone. Build a Dream’s 10 Tips for Career Exploration.
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Q&A with Women in Renewable Energy — WiRE
Mediaplanet spoke with Joanna Osawe, Julia Cushing and Aisha Bukhari, the team at Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE).
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Enough is Enough – Time to Change
On the International Day of Mourning, the BCRSP joins this solemn day in grieving with families who have lost loved ones due to workplace tragedies and recognizes the suffering of those injured or made ill because of their work.
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The Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Ironworkers
Ironwork is the pillar of modern infrastructure, but its workers suffer alarmingly common workplace injuries and suicides — a situation made worse by the pandemic. Here’s why leaders in the field say the trade is overdue for a serious conversation about mental health.
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The ‘Union Safety Effect’ is Real and Getting Stronger
There is a “Union Safety Effect” in the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional construction sector that creates safer workplaces.
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Prioritizing Safe Workplaces
April 28th marks Canada’s Day of Mourning, commemorating those who suffered workplace injuries or have lost their lives due to hazardous workplaces incidents or accidents. In 2019, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board reported 23 deaths while working on injury claims, and 4,873 lost time injuries and illnesses — all within the construction industry alone.
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Motivation From the Heart
Trish Penny works in corporate health and safety at Black and McDonald. She is a member and volunteer of Threads of Life – Association for Workplace Tragedy Family Support [link to: www.threadsoflife.ca]. Trish’s older brother Luke died when a wall collapsed and he was crushed while working in a trench. He had just started a new job weather proofing buildings.
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Collaboration for a Safer, Healthier Toronto Pearson
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a variety of challenges around health and safety, but it has also resulted in opportunities for collaboration among the Pearson airport community.
