by Doug Cook | Oct 9, 2025
October 9, 2025 I AM OFTEN ASKED HOW TO start an apprenticeship. It happens all the time. From the cab driver taking me to the airport to the service representative helping me process a return. When people find out I work in construction, they frequently follow up...
by Doug Cook | Sep 15, 2025
September 15, 2025 THE MUNICIPALITY OF CHILLIWACK had no rules in their book for how to zone a trades training facility, but that didn’t stop the leaders of Teamsters Local 213 and LiUNA Local 1611 from forging a path forward. The two unions, representing a combined...
by Doug Cook | Sep 5, 2025
September 5, 2025 YOU CAN’T GO FAR these days without hearing about artificial intelligence. We’re hearing about it pretty much every day now. The technology comes with plenty of small, day-to-day benefits. It can write you an e-mail. It can lay out a monthly family...
by Doug Cook | Sep 4, 2025
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by Doug Cook | Aug 26, 2025
August 26, 2025 VIRGINIA DAVIDSON HAD SPENT five years working across the country, away from her home when the pandemic hit. She was working in Ontario as a welder, but ultimately moved to pipefitting, figuring the welding was good practice for getting into her new...
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