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What will it take to get women PPE that actually fits?

March 4, 2024 IMAGINE WALKING ONTO A JOB site and all the tools you need are there. There’s a nice selection of personal protective equipment (PPE) that fits you. You put on the PPE, grab your tools and get to work knowing you’ll be safe on the job. That scenario...

First all-Indigenous cohort graduates EJTC

February 29, 2024 SOME OF WAKENNIOSTA COOPER’S earliest memories are hiding behind her grandma’s living room couch doing puzzles. “I’ve been doing puzzles since I was a kid ... it was one of my favourite things to do,” Cooper said. “I’ve always liked problem solving...

IBEW 993 Lights Up Women’s Shelter

February 21, 2024 THE LIGHTS IN A WOMEN’S SHELTER in Kitimat, B.C. are shining brighter this winter thanks to Alyssa Rogers and a sisterhood of electricians from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 993 (IBEW 993). Rogers is a second-year...

B.C. LNG: From pipe dream to reality

November 24, 2023 IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that liquefied natural gas (LNG) was once nothing more than a pipe dream in B.C. Back in the early 2000s, LNG development was limited to exploration, with questions surrounding its viability. Now, more than 10 years since BC...

BCBT makes history by organizing Canada Line TFWs

October 11, 2023 LUIS DIEGO-BRENES STILL REMEMBERS the party he and his co-workers threw when they finally received their backdated pay for building the Canada Line extension connecting Richmond and Vancouver. “Of course, we were there with our whole families, our...

The GENESIS of TRADEtalk

September 26, 2023 WHEN TOM SIGURDSON approached the executive board of the BC Building Trades (BCBT) about the possibility of launching a quarterly magazine for its members 25 years ago, he wasn’t sure what the outcome would be. It was a tumultuous time for the...