By Anna Guy In the Halifax Harbour in early October, 2018, hundreds of shipyard workers, navy members, shipbuilders and dignitaries gathered at the Irving Shipyard to christen HMCS Harry DeWolf. Following Royal Canadian Navy traditions, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau was given the honour of breaking a bottle of champagne against the ship’s 103-metre long bow, [...]
Setting the Standard for Ethically Produced Pork in Canada By Anna Guy It’s a full circle moment for Vincent Breton. As President of Les Viandes du Breton, a division of the company his grandfather Napoléon founded, he is leading a movement to bring traditional farming techniques back to the pork industry. When the company [...]
19th Century Architecture, 21st Century Technology The conversation to restore the Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury began the moment the 2008 fire was put out. A national historic site built in the 1880s, there was no questioning the significance of the building—home to the oldest French-Canadian regiment still in existence—in Québec. Ten years after the [...]
Helping You Harness Rewewable Energy By Anna Guy As one of Canada’s leading applied research centre for the renewable energy sector, Nergica helps Canadian SMEs create, implement, and augment their renewable energy opportunities. With more companies and communities looking to reduce their carbon emission (as well as keeping the Government of Canada’s objective of [...]
Currency Electrification of the BC power grid By Anna Guy The heat wave that hit BC in July, 2018 broke more that just temperature records—the record for summer power consumption in BC was also broken when the hourly demand reached more than 7,800 megawatts. BC Hydro described the event as “a continuation of a [...]
By Anna Guy E nabling Canadians to make renewable energy use the de facto option is an important endeavor, one that many of Canada’s brightest companies are making a priority. As a stand out in electrical engineering in power systems for renewable energy projects, in the province with far and away the strongest renewable [...]
By Anna Guy When it comes to the most environmentally sensitive and complex pipeline projects in the country, companies like Enbridge and TransCanada turn to Innovative Pipeline Crossings (IPC). For instance, as a part of the 2015 Enbridge GTA project, a nearly $1 billion, large diameter gas pipeline being constructed in the greater Toronto [...]
GO Transit History By Anna Guy The GO Transit expansion will bring more train trips to every GO rail corridor making it faster and easier for Whitby residents to travel throughout the GTHA and surrounding communities. Well known as a commuter suburb to the east of the GTA, Go Transit is a major part [...]
By Anna Guy Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and they shape us.” And so it is with Western University’s new Amit Chakma Engineering Building: a new structure that will both shape and reflect Western’s status as a leading Canadian institution. Prominently located on Western Road directly across from the Richard Ivey [...]
A New Way of Doing Business By Anna Guy Canadian Canadian unions tend to be entrenched in history—many are over 100 years old now. As Canada’s youngest union, the Building Union of Canada’s mission was to forge a “bold new way of doing business” from the onset. The formation of the Building Union of [...]