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Financial Literacy Support for CHET
Canada, CHET, Debt Management, driver-training, Enriched Academy, EnrichedAcademy, Financial Literacy, Financial Management, Financial Tips, FinancialLiteracy, Investing, Owner-Operator, Personal Finance, Training, truckdrivers, Trucking, Trucking Career, trucking educationCHET students, trainers, and administrators are receiving full access to the Enriched Academy platform and resources through a new partnership. This week’s blog from CHET covers the Enriched Academy program offers, and how important financial literacy is.
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GFL’s Brittany Loraas recognized in The Peak’s Emerging Leaders for 2023
Brittany Loraas, Career Growth, Company Culture, Emerging Leaders, EmergingLeaders, Employee Recognition, EnvironmentalSolutions, GFL, Green, HR, Human Resources Strategy, Leadership Development, People and Culture, recruitment, ThePeak, Training Programs, waste management, WomenCongratulations to GFL’s Brittany Loraas, GFL’s Director of HR and Liquid Operations, for being recognized as one of The Peak’s Emerging Leaders for 2023! This week’s blog post covers the announcement from GFL.
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Government of Canada invests in skills training to address shortages in trucking industry
Canada, Career ExpressWay, Carla Qualtrough, DrivingEconomicRecovery, Economic Recovery, Employement, Employment and Social Development, industry, Labour Shortages, Omar Alghabra, Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program, Skills Development, SocialSkills, Supply Chain, Training Subsidies, truck-drivers, Trucking, Trucking HR, Trucking industry, TruckingShortages, women in trucking, workforce diversity, Workforce SolutionsEarlier this year the Minister of Transport announced that the Government of Canada is investing up to $46.3 million to Trucking Human Resources Canada under the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program. The organization’s Driving Economic Recovery project will provide training subsidies and wage subsidies to support the recruitment, training, and onboarding of up to 1,400 new truck drivers and 1,200 workers for other in-demand occupations within the trucking sector.
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Concrete: A better living. A better life.
Canada, Career Change, CareerChange, Concrete, Concrete Careers, Concrete Delivery, Concrete Industry, ConcreteDeliveryProfessional, Construction Industry, Family, Female Drivers, Job Safety, JobSafe, Ontario, Ready-mix, safety, Teamwork, Training, Truck Driver, Truck Driving, Women in Construction, Women in Trades, WomenDrivingChange, WomeninTrades, Work-life balanceMeet Melissa De Caravalho, an incredibly determined woman who was told she couldn’t get her AZDS license, and went out and did it anyway. This week’s blog provided by @ConcreteCareers details who Melissa De Caravalho is, and why this incredible woman stepped up to the plate.
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Private Motor Truck Council of Canada 2023 AWARDS SEASON OPENS
Awards, BestinTrucking, Canada, Conference, Dispatcher of the Year, driver-training, Fleet Safety, Hamilton, PMTC, Professional drivers, Recognition, safety, Scholarship, Transportation, Trucking, Vehicle Graphics, Young LeadersThe 2023 Private Motor Truck Council of Canada Awards Program is now open for entries! The deadline to enter is April 30, 2023. This week’s blog gives an overview of PMTC’s award program.
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A Great Choice When it’s Time for a Change
Canada, Career Transition, CareerChange, Concrete, Concrete Career, Concrete Delivery, ConcreteCareers, Construction Industry, empowerment, innocon, innoconconcrete, Job Training, Lafarge, Ontario, readymix, safety, Teamwork, torontoconcrete, torontoconstructionassociation, Women Drivers, Women in Construction, WomenDrivingChage, womeninconstruction, WomeninTradesMeet Kate Gibbons, 32 years in the armored car driving business. This week’s blog covers an interview between Kate and Concrete Ontario discussing her career change to the concrete industry.
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Spring 2023
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Trucking is an Industry for Women with Drive!
On March 8, 2023, the nation celebrated International Women’s Day. When it comes to the trucking industry, men have traditionally dominated the workforce. However, a career in trucking is one that more and more women are considering. This week’s blog from Penner International showcases three different women who have made a career with the company and how the trucking industry is one for women with drive.
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New Indigenous Training for Industry Professionals
consultation, Corporate Responsibility, Counsel Public Affairs, CounselPublicAffairs, Cultural Sensitivity, First Nations, FirstNations, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Rights, Industry Engagement, Land Rights, landrights, Nibwaakaawin, Ojibwe, Public Affairs, Reconciliation, reconcilliation, Training ProgramWhile Indigenous people in Canada have certain constitutionally protected rights and governance structures, government and industry leaders have not always understood or respected these rights. This week’s Blog from Counsel Public Affairs explores a new training approach – Nibwaakaawin – that helps its clients fulfill their responsibilities to engage with Indigenous peoples and First Nations in Canada.
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Women Continue to be Underrepresented in Trucking
Canada, Canada Workforce, CanadianCensus, DEI Initiatives, Diversity & Inclusion, Gender disparity, Gender Equity, Mental Health at Work, Occupational Data, Pay Equity, representation, Skilled Trades, truckdrivers, Trucking, Trucking industry, women in trucking, Women Leaders, WomeninTrucking, workforce development, Workforce Representation, workplace culture, Workplace Inclusion, WTFCLabour force data released from the latest Canadian Census is disheartening when it comes to women being underrepresented in trucking. This week’s blog post from WTFC discusses the minimal growth, despite enormous efforts, to increase statistics of women represented in trucking.
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