$13.5 million from Green Municipal Fund to Support Home Retrofit Programs in Five Alberta Communities

$13.5 million from Green Municipal Fund to Support Home Retrofit Programs in Five Alberta Communities

October 23, 2023 Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, and Scott Pearce, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, have announced a $13.5-million investment in five Alberta communities through the Green Municipal Fund’s Community Efficiency Financing (CEF) initiative. The following communities received funding to develop energy retrofit financing programs for residential properties: ·      …

Emerging Innovators Challenge: Alberta Funding for SMEs to Find New Ways to Lower Emissions

Emerging Innovators Challenge: Alberta Funding for SMEs to Find New Ways to Lower Emissions

October 23, 2023 Funded by Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction system, Emissions Reduction Alberta’s Emerging Innovators Challenge will help fund scale-up, pilot and first-of-kind emissions-reduction projects. The $40 million will help support new ideas and innovations that have not been commercialized before in everything from energy efficiency and heating to digital solutions and reducing…

Phoenix Contact’s All Electric Society Park: Visions of the Future Brought to Life

Phoenix Contact’s All Electric Society Park: Visions of the Future Brought to Life

October 12, 2023 A new entrance has been built on an area of around 7,600 m² along the access road to Phoenix Contact’s Blomberg park site. The centerpiece is a freely accessible park that makes the future vision of the All Electric Society tangible for everyone and explains it in an understandable way. Its hallmark is…

IPEX Celebrates Grand Opening Of U.S. Flagship Injection Molding Manufacturing Facility

IPEX Celebrates Grand Opening Of U.S. Flagship Injection Molding Manufacturing Facility

October 12, 2023 IPEX is proud to announce the opening of its new U.S. technological flagship manufacturing facility in Pineville, N.C. The grand opening event, held at the new facility, was attended by more than 150 people including IPEX employees and the leadership team, as well as Aliaxis’ global CEO, members of government and other…

ESA

SUP Members at ESA Ratify Agreement to End Strike

October 11, 2023 The Society of United Professionals, IFPTE Local 160, and the Electrical Safety Authority ha reached a settlement to renew their collective agreement. The Society-represented safety professionals to ratify the agreement yesterday, ending a two-week strike. The new contract takes effect immediately. “Our electrical safety professionals stood strong for a fair contract, and…

Brady Presents 2023 Brady Canada Electrician Student Achievement Award

Brady Presents 2023 Brady Canada Electrician Student Achievement Award

October 6, 2023 Brady announced their 2023 Brady Canada Electrician Student Achievement Award recipient as part of the EFC Scholarship program. “It has been a great experience for Brady Canada to engage with students in the electrical field through the Electro-Federation Canada Scholarship. Providing Ethan with an Electrician’s starter kit, which includes valuable Brady products…

CMHC: Housing Starts Flat in Major Markets in First Half of 2023

CMHC: Housing Starts Flat in Major Markets in First Half of 2023

October 6, 2023 Housing starts across Canada’s largest cities saw just a 1% growth in the first six months of 2023, compared to the first half of 2022. This according to the latest edition of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Housing Supply Report (HSR), which examines new housing construction trends in Canada’s six largest Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs). Tighter…

Sonepar Acquires Assembly Services Business Division from Accu-Flo Meter Service Ltd

Sonepar Acquires Assembly Services Business Division from Accu-Flo Meter Service Ltd

October 6, 2023 Sonepar has announced that its wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary, Sonepar Canada, Inc., has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Accu-Flo Meter Service Ltd. (“Accu-Flo”) for its electrical manufacturing and assembly services division. Sonepar will integrate the new business into Gescan, a division of Sonepar Canada Inc., and rebrand it under Gescan Solutions….

mersen fuse

Mersen Canada Presented with IMARK Supplier of the Year Award

October 4, 2023 IMARK supplier partners and electrical distributor members gathered in Ottawa for the annual members meeting that culminated with the Recognition Awards dinner, where Mersen was excited to be awarded IMARK Canada Supplier of the Year. This award program recognizes and rewards members and suppliers for their superior participation in IMARK Canada programs…

Government of Ontario

Ontario Introducing Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act

October 4, 2023 The Ontario government introduced the Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, which, if passed, would make it cheaper and easier to build affordable homes, provide certainty to municipalities and help more Ontarians find an affordable home based on their household income. This would help support measures made through the government’s housing supply actions plans and…

Tivoli Lighting Introduces Quick Ship Program

Tivoli Lighting Introduces Quick Ship Program

October 4, 2023 Tivoli Lighting announces its Tivoli Quick Ship Program that guarantees its lighting products will be received within seven (7) days in North America. The Quick Ship Program was developed for fast-moving construction projects to ensure that schedules are met for a wide range of architectural lighting products without sacrificing quality and performance….