OPEN LETTER TO BC FERRIES

by | Jun 13, 2025

We were deeply disappointed to learn that BC Ferries has selected China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards (CMI Weihai) to build four New Major Vessels (NMVs). Canadian jobs should always come first, but in today’s economic climate, it is more important than ever...
PIPELINE TO GREATNESS: MEET CHASE BAKER

PIPELINE TO GREATNESS: MEET CHASE BAKER

by | Mar 15, 2025

March 15, 2025 CHASE BAKER IS JUST ABOUT to turn 18. And while he doesn’t have his entire career mapped out just yet, he’s moving full speed ahead in the pipefitting industry thanks to a try-a-trade program he took this past summer on the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN)....

CUTTING IT AS A GLAZIER APPRENTICE: MEET DENYS KOSTIUCHENKO

by | Jan 17, 2025

January 17, 2025 DENYS KOSTIUCHENKO AND HIS WIFE were living in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine when Russia invaded the country in February 2022, another escalation in an already tragic and deadly war. “We couldn’t take it. It was hard to live, hard to sleep. Constant...

THE RETURN OF COMPULSORY TRADES

by | Jan 6, 2025

January 6, 2025 WHEN A CRANE WAS DANGEROUSLY showing signs of instability at a Vancouver worksite in October, Sydney Stratton said it was the ironworkers and operating engineers on site who took decisive action to contain the situation. It was the second crane...