Erecting scaffolding in subzero temperatures, such as the kind that locked most of the country in an iron grip earlier this winter, requires extra vigilance. “We’re dealing with cold and ice and drizzle. On some days, it’s just too cold to work,” says Scafom Canada foreman and journeyman carpenter Mike...
New Legislation to Ensure Ontario Businesses and Workers Get Paid on Time. December 5, 2017 1:15 P.M. Ministry of the Attorney General Today, Ontario passed legislation to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the construction sector. The Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017 includes new prompt payment rules to ensure Ontario construction businesses...
Toronto’s first office building constructed of wood under the 2015 amendments to the Ontario Building Code will be on the rise early next year in the west end neighbourhood of Liberty Village. The project, known as 80 Atlantic Avenue, consists of four-storeys of nail-laminated timber (NLT) — two-by-eight and two-by-10...
This year’s College of Carpenters and Allied Trades (CCAT) apprenticeship graduates received encouraging words that they are entering the workforce at an incredible time to be in the building trades. “Our city is firing on all cylinders. We have transit projects, we have health care, we have education, we have...
Engineering and architecture students at six Ontario universities recently did something they don’t normally do in university — they collaborated on the design and construction of wood-frame structures as part of a 36-hour competition in downtown Toronto. It was the third edition of TimberFever, held once a year at Ryerson...
Over the past 11 days, volunteers and supporters of Renos for Heroes have marched 300 kilometres from Canadian Forces Base Trenton to Parliament Hill to increase awareness and raise money for Canada’s wounded veterans. Included in this group of supporters were Carpenters’ Union representatives. Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan and...
The Atlantic Canada Regional Council of Carpenters, Millwrights and Allied Workers (ACRC), as well as the Carpenter Millwright Colleges and Trust Funds of Atlantic Canada, are the proud hosts of the 2017 United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) National Apprenticeship Competition being held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, August 25-26, 2017. The...
In 1954, the province of Newfoundland hired its first safety officer on a three-month contract and two years later they sent a safety person to workplaces in remote communities by boat to deliver first aid supplies. Safety standards improved slowly but steadily in the decades to come, but in the...
The Archdiocese of Toronto was willing to donate the pews but that still left the Rankin Inlet priest perplexed about how to cover the cost of disassembling them in Toronto, customizing them to fit and then shipping them to their new home in the north. Raising the money locally was...
Legislation passed by the Ontario legislature last December implementing reform to the four-year-old college following the release of the Dean Report in November 2015 called for the creation of a compliance and enforcement committee to consult with stakeholders and recommend a new compliance and enforcement policy to the minister within...