Founded in 1890, The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada—otherwise known as UA—is Canada’s oldest United Association Union. For over 130 years, UA members have been serving their communities providing excellence in plumbing, welding and steam fitting. Based in [...]
Established in 1989, Westridge is one of Saskatchewan’s leading general contractors, contributing to over $1 billion of construction to the province throughout their 34-year history. Just as it approaches each project, the Westridge team’s growth has been steady and concise, building its reputation as a well-known and respected general contractor with [...]
Since 1973, Portage has helped Canadians overcome substance abuse-related problems and live healthy, happy, and productive lives. A Canadian non-profit organization, Portage operates several drug rehabilitation centres in Québec: in Montréal, Prévost (Laurentians), Québec City and Saint-Malachie (Chaudière-Appalaches). Two other centres cater to residents of Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Portage’s facilities [...]
LiUNA Local 837, a predominately construction-based trade union, headquartered in Hamilton, Ontario has over 6,000 members throughout the Greater Hamilton, Niagara, Brant and Kitchener-Waterloo communities. Local 837 is one of twenty local unions that LiUNA, the Labourers’ International Union of North America, has in Canada. LiUNA is Canada’s largest building trades union [...]
Nunavut—which means “Our Land” in Inuktitut—is a vast, remote and sparsely populated territory in northern Canada that stretches across most of the Canadian Arctic. Following decades of hard work and advocacy by Inuit visionaries and their allies, the territory was established on April 1, 1999, and has since become one of the [...]
The problem was access. For businesses and entrepreneurs in Nunavut, access to economic tools and banking infrastructure was a barrier to entry. Access to ATM machines, bank branches, and credit systems are imperative to participate in Canada’s economy, all things that for many years were unavailable to Nunavut residents. This is where [...]
Over nearly 60,000 acres sweeping between what is now the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, the Onion Lake Cree Nation is home to 4,200 of the band’s 7,081 members. Located 50 km North of Lloydminster, Canada, it is the only reserve whose land straddles the two provinces. Onion Lake is of the Treaty Six Territory [...]
Established in 1979, the Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCNI) is the voice for the Canadian nuclear industry’s suppliers and an advocate for its 230 leading suppliers and institutions in the nuclear industry in Canada and abroad. OCNI member companies employ more than 15,000 highly skilled and specialized people in Canada, who [...]
When Mr. Salvatoré Abbatiello Founded his first pizza restaurant in 1964, it would have been hard to imagine that it would grow to one day be owned by the third generation of Abbatiellos and also be recognized as the #1 pizza and poutine delivery company in the market where it operates. Although [...]
Thanks to the new, ultramodern water treatment facility, 80,000 people in Drummondville, Quebec will have the highest quality drinking water available. Designed to accommodate 30 years of growth—with population growth predicted to be 100,000—the new plant will meet the current standards of the Quebec Regulation and also exceed many requirements. Some standards [...]