It's your last chance to register for tomorrow's webinar, Building a Culture of Innovation – An Innovation Workshop.

As the industry continues to evolve, being innovative and, almost as importantly, being perceived as innovative by customers and potential team members is of growing importance.

This webinar will explore a range of topics regarding innovation, including:

• What is innovation?
• How do you define innovation within your organization?
• Innovation competency
• Positioning yourself as an innovative company

Join us – and presenter Mallorie Brodie, CEO and Co-Founder, Bridgit Solutions – tomorrow (March 17) at noon ET.

Registration information is available here.

Despite hosting a virtual event for the first time, the MCA Canada Student Chapter Summit hosted a record number of registrants, including students from five different schools across Canada (Conestoga College, McMaster University, Ryerson University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Manitoba).

Sponsored by Servco Canada and Victaulic, the afternoon program provided a great overview of opportunities in the mechanical contracting sector in Canada.

“As always, the Student Chapter Summit remains a very rewarding event for the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada,” said Tania Johnston, MCA Canada CEO. “It is always great to talk to the next generation of leaders in our industry, and to showcase the types of opportunities available to them. I am confident that the challenges our industry faces in the future will be met!”

The event kicked off with a presentation from Professor Timothy Wentz, who discussed the mechanical contracting sector and the Top 10 reasons students should consider a career in the sector. Following his presentations, students were given a presentation on the Kitimat LNG project in northern British Columbia from the team at LNG Canada and JGC Fluor JV.

To close out the program, Corey Diamond of Efficiency Canada provided a presentation on how Canada is aiming to reach its energy efficiency goals, and the important role the sector can play in achieving those goals.

Thank you to our sponsors—and to everyone who participated!

Thank you MP Francesco Sorbara for his acknowledgement of World Plumbing Day and the advocacy work of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating and the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada on behalf of the sector in the House of Commons!

“The role of skilled trades, especially in the plumbing industry, affords us all to have safe water and sanitation systems in our communities – vital to our health and well-being.”

Thank you for your continued support of the plumbing, heating and mechanical contracting industry.

In recognition of World Plumbing Day last week, the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada is pleased to announce that dahl Valve Limited has once again committed donations to MCA Canada in support of education programs for the plumbing and hydronic heating trades. This is the second year in a row dahl Valve has committed the funding to MCA Canada to celebrate World Plumbing Day.

To learn more about dahl Valve Limited, visit www.dahlvalve.com.

Source: HistoryNet.com

1190: The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England.
1621: The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1907: The British cruiser Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.
1917: Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne.
1928: The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935: Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.
1939: Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945: Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.
1968: U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.
1985: Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.