The coronavirus pandemic is forcing us to re-evaluate so much of our lives and what is truly important to us. It is imperative that all of us focus on our own personal health and well-being. And contrary to how we might feel, we are NOT powerless. The more proactive we act individually and collectively the more empowered we become.

This webinar, which is sponsored by the Women in Mechanical Construction initiative, will give simple strategies on how to nourish and support your mental and emotional health and will provide practical tools and guidelines to help you strike a healthy work-life balance.

Tickets are $25 each, and proceeds from the webinar will go toward a new scholarship for a female apprentice.

Join us on June 24 from noon to 1 p.m. ET.

Heat pumps systems are becoming an increasingly popular energy-efficient solution for heating and cooling Canadian homes. To ensure optimal system performance and maintain adequate comfort levels in a home, it is important to select and ultimately install the right size heat pump.

An oversized unit will cycle frequently, leading to reduced efficiency and discomfort. Purchasing and operating costs will also be higher. Conversely, an undersized unit will not be able to meet the desired heating loads at colder temperatures and will result in increased use of back-up or auxiliary heating systems. A properly sized system will strike the right balance between meeting the desired heating loads and maintaining comfort conditions at a wide range of ambient temperature conditions.  The right sized heat pump will use less energy, while maintaining the required comfort levels.

Natural Resources Canada has developed a package of materials related to air source heat pump (ASHP) sizing and selection, intended for use by mechanical system designers and renovation contractors. These materials are designed to assist with sizing and selecting ASHPs for Canadian climates, in both new and existing (retrofit) residential applications.

Please join us on a webinar where we will introduce the tool and provide a walk-through example, followed by a question and answer period.

Register for only one of the following – the sessions are identical.

• June 10 – 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET – Air-Source Heat Pump Sizing and Selection Guide Presentation
• June 23 – 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET – Air-Source Heat Pump Sizing and Selection Guide Presentation

For more information on the toolkit please follow this link.

Source: HistoryNet.com

0452: Attila the Hun invades Italy.
0632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies.
0793: The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.
1861: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
1866: Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian Raids.
1879: Toronto's first telephone book is published.
1900: Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
1904: U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
1908: King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
1953: The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
1966: Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
1968: James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1992: Canadian Space Agency chooses four new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montréal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dave Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
1995: U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.