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Industry
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Houston mayor, others help residents after deadly blast
Houston’s mayor and others say they will work to provide assistance to residents whose homes were damaged after a massive explosion at a warehouse that killed two workers and injured 20 others. Mayor Sylvester Turner on Saturday walked through the…
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Anger, drama fuel meeting on mounting issues with Ottawa light rail system
Ottawa city hall’s top bureaucrat has told elected officials that he’s ready to take the blame if councillors want someone’s head to roll over ongoing troubles with the city’s light-rail system. Steve Kanellakos’s opening remarks at an emergency meeting of…
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Amtrak train hits maintenance truck; 6 are slightly injured
(AP) NEWINGTON, Conn. _ An Amtrak train collided Friday with a maintenance truck working on the tracks in Connecticut, resulting in minor injuries to six people on the train, officials said. Two workers were inside the truck when they saw…
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Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales down 0.6 per cent in November
OTTAWA – Canadian manufacturing sales fell more than expected in November as sales in the primary metal, chemical and food industries moved lower, offset in part by gains in the transportation and fabricated metal industries. Statistics Canada says the value…
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Grounded Boeing jet holds back profits, growth at airlines
DALLAS – The three big U.S. airlines that own Boeing 737 Max jets don’t expect the grounded plane back in their fleets until after the the peak summer travel season, and that promises to lead to thousands more cancelled flights…
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Mega Bloks to lay off nearly 580 as it moves to close Montreal toy factory
MONTREAL – Mattel Inc. says the Mega Bloks toy factory it acquired in 2014 will shut down next year, triggering 580 layoffs in Montreal. Mattel says production of the interlocking plastic bricks for children will be outsourced to facilities in…
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India, Brazil agree to boost ties in IT, biofuel and mining
NEW DELHI – India and Brazil on Saturday agreed to boost trade and investment across a range of fields such as defence, mining, biofuel, cybersecurity, food, the environment and health. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Brazil as “a valuable…
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How a coronavirus epidemic in China could ripple through the global economy
An international outbreak of respiratory illness sparked by a novel coronavirus has spread from its origins in central China to at least 11 countries, with more than 1,200 confirmed cases – including a presumed case in Canada – and over…
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PEMAC Makes Appointments
To help support chapters and advance the quality of its programming, PEMAC has added three members to its team. Chyan Loyd has been named to the PEMAC administrative team. She brings accounting and bookeeping knowledge and experience to assist in…
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Municipalities to Work With PEMAC
Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and Bill Karsten, President of FCM, announced that PEMAC has been chosen to work with Canadian municipalities to help them improve infrastructure decisions through stronger asset management practices. PEMAC is one of…
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MRO Roundtable
Maintenance professionals discuss topics vital to their facilities. MRO recently hosted a roundtable discussion during the MainTrain conference hosted by the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) in Edmonton, Alberta. It brought maintenance professionals from all over Canada…
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Builders and dreamers: How young women are bridging the STEM skills gap: Part 1
Build a Dream guides girls to careers in manufacturing, automation and STEM, while advocating for workplace diversity. By Kristina Urquhart When Elizabeth Moses, a machinist at Windsor Mold, arrived at St. Clair College in 2016 in the general machinist apprenticeship…
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Builders and dreamers: How young women are bridging the STEM skills gap: Part 2
By Kristina Urquhart In 2014, while working at Women’s Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor, Hachem-Fawaz helped to secure a government grant for a program at St. Clair College that would train women as industrial mechanics and millwrights for work placements…
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The Controversy of Fully Loading the Weekly Schedule 100 Per Cent
BY: Doc Palmer TIP: Don’t schedule fewer hours to allow for reactive work. Instead schedule more hours and allow breaking the schedule for reactive work. Perhaps the greatest controversy of maintenance scheduling is loading the weekly schedule to 100 per…
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Bombardier’s future in question after debt reduction options being considered
The future of Bombardier Inc. is being called into question after the company said it was actively considering alternatives to reduce its staggering debt. After exiting the commercial aircraft business, selling its aerostructures unit and unloading a large tract of…
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Teck Resources to pay $2 million for SunMine solar project at Kimberley, B.C.
VANCOUVER – Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. says it is purchasing the SunMine solar electricity generating facility in B.C. from the City of Kimberley. The Vancouver-based company says it has agreed to pay about $2 million, matching the city’s debt…
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Statistics Canada says decline in manufacturing has hurt employment for men
OTTAWA – A Statistics Canada report reveals that the fallout from the country’s shrinking manufacturing sector is affecting employment and wage rates of men and women differently. In a report looking at the impact of the decline in manufacturing, the…
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Boeing is working on a new software issue on the 737 Max
Boeing is working to fix a newly discovered problem with software powering up on the 737 Max, adding to the list of tasks the aircraft maker faces to get the grounded plane back in the air. Boeing said Friday it…
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Toyota shifting pickup production to Mexico, no US jobs lost
(AP) PRINCETON, Ind. – Toyota will stop making its Tacoma small pickup in San Antonio next year as it shifts production to Mexico, but the company says no U.S. jobs will be lost. To make up for the lost work,…
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Feds give $500K to project to promote northern mining at annual conference
VANCOUVER – The federal government is spending $500,000 to lure investors to develop untapped mineral resources in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Yukon MP Larry Bagnell announced the initiative in Vancouver on Sunday on behalf of Melanie Joly, minister…
