Early bird registration for #MCACInMusicCity closes on July 30! Take advantage of great savings and join MCAC in Nashville from October 2–5 for the MCAC Annual National Conference!

Register today!

MCAC is pleased to announce that Victaulic is once again joining the MCAC Annual Conference as a Platinum Partner.

For more than 26 years, Victaulic has sponsored the Opening Breakfast and Keynote Speaker at the Conference, taking place this year on October 3.

This year, MCAC is very excited to announce that Victaulic is the title sponsor of the Innovation and Technology Day on October 4!

Find out more about the conference at www.conference.mcac.ca and our fantastic partners at www.conference.mcac.ca/sponsors!

Branden Kotyk, Victaulic’s Regional Sales Manager in B.C., has been disrupting the construction industry’s status-quo for over 12 years to bring the efficiencies of leading-edge technology and innovative fabrication processes to key project stakeholders.

Drawing on insights gained through positions in Canada, Australia, and the United States, Branden has a history of facilitating a collaborative interface between owners, builders, trade contractors and suppliers across the ICI and natural resources construction industries.

By leveraging BIM technology, modularization and lean manufacturing principles, Branden has helped lead the successful delivery of innovative mechanical solutions for construction projects ranging from $1 million to $9.2 billion, on four continents.

Join Branden on October 4 for the Innovation Challenge Panel Discussion, and find out more about our speakers at www.conference.mcac.ca/speakers.

Get those clubs polished: our annual CEC fundraising golf tournament is just a week away. So if you haven't already registered, what are you waiting for?

Join us for a day of great golf and camaraderie at the Royal Ontario Golf Club in Milton, ON. Funds raised from this year's event will help to expand our distance learning program.

Thanks to everyone who has registered to play so far, and thank you to our generous sponsors.

CEC has a scholarship available for students studying in the mechanical or a related construction field, business management or computer science.

• BRADFORD WHITE CANADA – $1,500
• OS&B – R.J. (Bob) Evans Memorial Scholarship – $2,500 (college or university program)

For more information, and to view all our scholarships, visit mcac.ca/cec/scholarships.

DID YOU KNOW? MCAC members across Canada can now access an exclusive program with American Express. By taking advantage of this program, members are entitled to exclusive sign-up bonuses, and to utilize the small business solutions available through AMEX.

For more information, contact Bhauna Patel.

The Construction Education Council is pleased to present the exclusive Dispatcher Training Program. In it, participants will learn about the role of the dispatcher in their organizations and their impact on profitability, communications skills for dispatchers, partnering with service technicians, serving customers, managing the service manager and how to work with the entire team.

The program was originally by the Mechanical Service Contractors of America, and has since been updated and adapted specifically for the Canadian market.

Join us on October 17 and 18 at the MCA Toronto Classroom.

For more information and to register, visit http://mcac.ca/cec/programs/register.

1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.
1790: In Paris, the Marquis de Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women.
1844: American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China.
1863: Confederate forces attack the centre of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it.
1878: John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1901: The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train.
1903: The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
1944: The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
1945: U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
1950: U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
1954: Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
1962: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967: North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam's only producing coal mine at Nong Son.

Source: HistoryNet.com

MCA Canada recently named the ALS Society of Alberta as our Charity of Choice for 2019.

This charity was chosen to honour past MCAC President David Flamand‘s sister Patsy Brooks. The ALS Society of Alberta is dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by ALS. It is the only charitable organization in Alberta that provides support to families affected by the disease.

Learn more about this great organization, and how you can help support this important cause.