After a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited to be back once again at the Royal Ontario Golf Club to raise funds for the Construction Education Council and its exceptional education programming for the industry!

This annual tournament directs all funds raised to support our ability to provide the mechanical contracting industry with ongoing and innovative new educational programming. The fundraising from this tournament will be put toward a major CEC project!

Learn more about our annual tournament and plan to join us on Sept. 29.

Dear MCA Canada members,

The deadline to apply for any of the scholarships offered by MCA Canada through our Richard McKeagan Scholarship Series is this Friday, Aug. 27.

Our association and our valued partners will award close to $16,000 this year in the form of scholarships to students studying in the mechanical contracting and mechanical engineering fields.

What's more, there are scholarships available for a wide range of students and apprentices, including women and Indigenous people.

There's never been a better time than now to share this great news — and this great program — with your colleagues and employees. But don't delay getting those applications in!

Learn more at https://mcac.ca/our-programs/scholarships.

You are invited to participate in a review of the draft of the new Red Seal Occupational Standard for the Steamfitter/Pipefitter trade for Canada.

A draft of the standard was developed at a national virtual workshop attended by trade experts and apprenticeship instructors from across Canada. After this online survey is completed, provincial and territorial industry and apprenticeship committees will also review and validate this standard. In preparation for this step, we would like to give individuals who would like to participate the opportunity to do so.

For this trade, the standard is divided into Major Work Activities, which are broken down into Tasks, which are further broken down into distinct Sub-Tasks.

The survey is completely voluntary and is anonymous, though if you possess a Red Seal, the first digits of your Red Seal number will be requested (these do not identify any individual).

All comments will be forwarded to your province/territory’s apprenticeship authority to review with their committees for consideration.

To complete the survey, please click below.

Steamfitter/Pipefitter RSOS Validation Survey

You can start the survey and resume at a later time, as long as you work from the same device (laptop, tablet, smartphone) every time. Please note that the deadline to complete the survey is Aug. 30, 2021.

Thank you for participating in the survey.

The Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada and the Construction Education Council are once again proud to present the exclusive Gold Seal and Blue Seal Accredited Project Management Program. This highly acclaimed program is offered in partnership with the University of Waterloo.

Our fall program will be held online once again, and will be offered two days a week for 10 weeks between September and December. This will mark the 41st session offered with nearly 900 industry managers graduating from the program.

This course is one of our premiere offerings. Learn more, and sign up today!

CanBIM is hosting a special event on tomorrow.

The CanBIM Technical Summit on Construction Estimating will offer informative and innovative insights into how companies can work on improving the estimating process while navigating the unique challenges and opportunities in the industry today.

Attend this half-day event at no charge to hear about the latest technology and tools available to improve your processes and productivity.

MCA Canada is a proud member of CanBIM.

Source: HistoryNet.com

0079: Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements.
0410: German barbarians sack Rome.
1542: In South America, Gonzalo Pizarro returns to the mouth of the Amazon River after having sailed the length of the great river as far as the Andes Mountains.
1780: King Louis XVI abolishes torture as a means to get suspects to confess.
1814: British troops under General Robert Ross capture Washington, D.C., which they set on fire in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York (Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada.
1847: Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London.
1891: Thomas Edison files a patent for the motion picture camera.
1954: Congress outlaws the Communist Party in the United States.
1981: Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon.
1989: Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for gambling.
1989: Colombian drug lords declare "total and absolute war" on Colombia's government, booming the offices of two political parties and burning two politicians' homes.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Ukraine declares its independence from USSR.
2004: Chechnyan suicide bombers blow up two airliners near Moscow, killing 89 passengers.
2006: Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union redefines "planet."