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Several openings in the GTA for flaggers to direct Traffic.

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Carpenters' Local 27 in Toronto donated skilled labour to assemble 170 wood planters for the Celebrate Yonge Festival - the city's pilot project to open two vehicular traffic lanes to pedestrians from Aug. 17 to Sept. 17 on Yonge Street from Gerrard south to Queen Street.

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August 30 deadline for school backpack donations to Grand Valley Construction Association Women in Construction, for needy children in Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area.

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Last Thursday evening at the local Movember headquarters .... October's event, the Toronto edition of the global speakers's series on "ideas worth spreading".
Fittingly for a discussion held in a room full of moustache paraphernalia, talk was over the trouble with women - that is, recruiting enough to make TEDx less of a sausage fest.
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Digital Thermography records thermal patterns of the body which are used to help diagnose and/or monitor pain or illness in any part of the body. Unlike more familiar medical test such as X-rays, or MRI’s, which are tests of anatomy or structure, Thermography is a test of physiology.

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This year's Construction Sector Council (CSC) labour market forecast highlights a major shift in non-residential construciton as the number of energy projects rise and infrastructure projects shift away from institutional work.

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Farrah Fox's love of the trades started in high school and has continued on through apprenticeship.  Fox, an electrician, lives and works in Prince Albert.  She gained her first exposure to the skilled trades through high school shop classes.

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Two more groups of trades have now begun Ratio Reviews.
Group A3: Precast concrete erector;precast concrete finisher
Group A4: Cement concrete finisher;cement mason

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Construction hiring is expected to grow to 120,000 workers over the next nine years as major projects from new mines to Pan Am games construciton emerge and older workers get set to retire.

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A career in the skilled trades offers women many benefits, yet efforts to recruit women into this career path have had limited success.

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