“We need to drive aggressive agendas because five per cent of women in the trades isn’t good enough,” Melanie Mark, minister of advanced education, skills and training, said at the announcement. The association said it is also trying to retain women in the workforce at a time when the province... read more →

In Northern Ontario, she said, they found an “untold hidden history” of its impact in gold mining and how the industry shaped Ontario and Canada’s economy. “And it’s something that we felt was underexplored and under-represented in the wider Canadian culture, so we really wanted to bring that to people,”... read more →

The gap with China on goods widened to an all-time record of $419.2 billion. The Commerce Department figures released March 6 undermined a key commitment by President Donald Trump, who promised to cut the trade imbalance on the belief that it would bring back overseas factory jobs and bolster the... read more →

Derailleurs are the transmission of your bike. When you shift, they guide the chain to the correct gears. Whether you’re fixing a particular problem with your chain or simply giving the system a tune-up now that spring is here, here’s how to do it READ HERE

John L. Grove, the founder of JLG industries, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) and Access International at the annual International Awards for Powered Access (IAPA) conference READ HERE

Justin Trudeau says his government is concerned with plans by a pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia to dump treated effluent into the Northumberland Strait, but the prime minister says there are no plans for a federal environmental assessment because Nova Scotia has that responsibility READ HERE

The ailerons are actually integrated into a huge single-piece carbon-fiber clamshell that extends all the way from the rears of the doors to the tail of the car. The actual structure of the clamshell changes as you get towards the back of the car. "[In] the carbon-fiber manufacturing process, you... read more →

The City of Burlington has allotted more than 50 per cent of its spending towards roadways in its 2019 capital budget. In this year’s total planned expenditures of $96.4 million, the largest component of $49.5 million is earmarked for roadways. This falls within Burlington’s 10-year, $819-million capital budget, of which... read more →

The province said March 5 that it has finalized two contracts with three construction companies that will nearly wrap-up work on the 101-kilometre Calgary Ring Road. Construction has been underway on the project in numerous stages for more than a decade and the latest pair of contracts for the western... read more →

The viability of a renewable energy future relies on the ready supply of REEs, or rare-earth elements. There are 17 REEs in the periodic table and, though the name suggests otherwise, they are actually plentiful in the earth’s crust. The challenge is that these elements are not often concentrated in... read more →