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- Residential and high-rise buildings
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- Roads
- Hydro electric construction
- And more
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FLUSH TOILETS MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE, BUT SOME EMPLOYERS HOLDING OUT
May 12, 2025 CELINE HARMEL HAD BEEN WORKING at the Artesia construction site in Metrotown for seven or eight months when the site finally got flush toilets this past December. While she believes the site should always have had flush toilets, it came at an opportune...
PIPELINE TO GREATNESS: MEET CHASE BAKER
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)....
Op-Ed
Workers Advocate’s Message – Business community resistant to pro-worker WCB changes
May 25, 2023 CHRIS GARDNER, president of the Independent Contractors and Business Association (ICBA), wrote an op-ed in the Journal of Commerce on Dec. 21, 2022, taking the B.C. government to task for trying to fix the workers’ compensation system. Gardner also...
Executive Director’s Message – Where will the trades take you?
April 12, 2023 THIS ISSUE of Tradetalk explores the journeys we take as tradespeople. From the early days in the trades to reflections after a lifetime, we’re delving into some of the places you can go. We start this issue by celebrating the opening of the Heat and...
College of the BCBT Apprenticeship Guide
College of the BC Building Trades Apprenticeship Guide
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- Explore our programs
- Explore our training schools
- Learn about the College of the BC Building Trades advantage
Tradetalk
Read the Latest Edition of TradeTalk
Fall 2026 Vol. 29 No. 3
In this issue
- UA 170’s new Kelowna school
- Delivering healthcare infastructure
- APPRENTICESHIP SECTION
- Ironworkers and the PNE Freedom Arch
WE ARE INVOLVED WITH WORTHWHILE CAMPAIGNS ACROSS THE REGION TO ENSURE ALL OUR MEMBERS ARE PRIMED FOR SUCCESS IN THE COMING YEARS
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The BC Building Trades represents 50,000 highly skilled construction workers in British Columbia. Our members work in the industrial, commercial, institutional and residential sectors building our communities.
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