The Lakehead University forestry graduate began her career in the early 1990s at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, working in woodlands operations, certification and forest management. After joining EACOM in 2015 as a planning coordinator, her prowess in building relationships with stakeholders and communities made her a clear choice... read more →

issues that were considered during the project’s design phase included: How to restore, in a contemporary way, the historic and landscape characteristics of English garden squares; and how to mesh the potentially conflicting needs of various partners and bodies “consulted directly or indirectly” as part of the design of the project. Organizations... read more →

The ABC study also suggests that eight prevention and planning measures can significantly curb incident rates when carried out regularly. The first is to hold toolbox safety talks involving a daily briefing on a single training topic, which reduced incidents by 85% compared to companies that held these weekly. One-third of... read more →

Under the Paris Agreement, almost every nation on Earth has pledged to limit the rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100. The world’s governments are attempting to reach their own marks through various measures, even if they’re so... read more →

For the development community, one of the biggest changes in the plan is to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal Act (LPAT), formerly known as the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), an adjudicative tribunal that hears cases in relation to a range of municipal planning, financial and land matters. According to the plan,... read more →

Rather than ship the chromite offshore to be processed into stainless steel, Whalen said attendees were discussing the possibility of processing it at home in Northern Ontario. “We're going to put (the metals) on a ship, ship them to China, they're going to create stainless steel and ship it back to... read more →

Place your largest Y-shaped branch on the bottom with the stem facing away from the cab—this will act like a sled carrying everything you’re about to load on top. Load the rest of the stuff on top of the open portion of the Y. (If your largest branch is too... read more →

Overall, compared with March, employment in April was up 0.6 per cent, which was the highest proportional monthly expansion since 1994 when it reached 0.7 per cent. A closer look at April reveals the overall gain was driven by the creation of 73,000 full-time jobs and 83,800 positions in the private... read more →