35 Years of Creating A Home Away From Home By Rajitha Sivakumaran For the first time in nearly 150 years, Canada’s population had more individuals over the age of 65 than children under 14 years last year. The population has been aging for some time and the consequences of this are many, but one [...]
65 Years Later, An Entrepreneurial Spirit Marches On By Cheryl Long Sixty-five years ago, Canadian women known as the Marching Mothers went door to door collecting “just a dime” in an effort to raise money to find a vaccine to prevent polio. In 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine and as threat of [...]
Communicating the Value of Security to Canadians By Rajitha Sivakumaran Click to view Brochure Many Canadians know NATO to be a military and political alliance consisting of 28 members in the North Atlantic region. Founded in 1949, this organization served to limit Soviet expansion, prevent the return of nationalist militarism to Europe [...]
Transforming Canada's Linguistic Marketplace By Rajitha Sivakumaran Click to view Brochure In 2011, Statistics Canada reported that over 200 languages are spoken in Canada and 80 per cent of those who spoke a second language live in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Toronto, for example, is home to a staggering 140 different [...]
Voice of Saskatchewan’s dynamic construction industry By Rajitha Sivakumaran Click to view Brochure The year 2015 was marked by a critical decline in the number of residential construction projects underway in Saskatchewan. Commercial construction, on the other hand, experienced a measured growth and exceeded past performances. The interconnectedness of the marketplace, however, [...]
Paving the way for successful careers in skilled trades Click to view Brochure By Cheryl Long The need for skilled labour across Canada continues to grow, and more than one group believes that the answer lies among the country’s aboriginal population. By increasing the number of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people [...]
Strong Partnerships take spotlight at annual AABO Conference By Cheryl Long In November 2015, the Aboriginal Apprenticeship Board of Ontario (AABO) held its fifth annual conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which brought together a cross-section of groups working together to increase the number of aboriginal people employed in skilled trades in Ontario. Last year’s [...]
building more, stronger relations By Emily Innes Click to view Brochure Due to the continual strengthening of bilateral relations between Canada and Poland there has been renewed interest in the Canada-Poland Chamber of Commerce of Toronto (CCT), according to the chairman of the board. “There was a visit (to Canada) from the [...]
Reaching out to every child, everywhere ~ By Cheryl Long Click to view Brochure It’s Halloween night and costumed children are running door to door, happily toting bags of candy and little orange cardboard boxes filling up with pennies, nickels, dimes and even the occasional quarter. This is the image that comes [...]
50 years of building the workforce in Saskatchewan and beyond By Leah Kellar On the cusp of the Saskatchewan Construction Association’s 50th anniversary, there are many achievements to celebrate in the making of a sustainable construction workforce within a competitive market. The Saskatchewan Construction Association (SCA) is the strong provincial advocacy voice for the [...]