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How to Have a Hassle-Free Tax Season: 3 Tips for Small Business Owners

Small business owners usually cringe at the thought of tax season. They are busy enough with their daily operations that they don’t want to spend all of their time and energy getting ready to file on time. They also may dread the thought of paying more in taxes than they feel they should. While small business owners cannot avoid taxes altogether (even though they wish they could), they can take some steps now to avoid the hassles that typically come at tax time.

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How to Use the Fluke T6 Electrical Testers with FieldSense Technology

This is the second of a two-part article on Fluke’s new TC electrical tester. Part 1 explored features and benefits. Here in Part 2: putting Fluke T6 to work. Anyone who uses electrical testers to capture measurements such as voltage and current knows that the process is traditionally time-consuming and carries the potential for risk. The Fluke T6 electrical tester with FieldSense Technology provides a faster and safer method for taking electrical readings on distribution panels and junction boxes, among other applications. This tool senses an electrical field in the open fork, allowing you to take the measurement with ease. Here’s how to use it.

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Floyd Lau: Founder of Amptek Technologies

Floyd Lau founded Amptek Technologies in 2002 as an end to end engineering design company, but it has since grown to produce its own product brand that is now entering the IoT and lighting market.

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Smart Building Market to Quadruple by 2022

The global smart building market is projected to grow from an estimated $US7.42 billion in 2017 to $US31.74 billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 33.7%, according to a new market report. A growing need for integrated security and safety systems and decreasing operational costs are some of the major factors driving the market.

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Keeping the Gate Closed, and Other Non-Negotiables

I spent most of my formative years growing up in a northern British Columbia community, which was primarily geared around agriculture. In some ways it seemed like I had two lives, as about half of my friends lived in town whereas the others spent their time, when they weren’t in school or playing baseball, working on their family farms.

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Troubleshoot Electrical Systems Safer and Faster with New Tester: Part 1

For many years, electricians and technicians looking for a quick current reading have reached for an electrical tester, a personal everyday tool seen in tool belts the world over. For example, with Fluke’s T5 you slide the open fork around a conductor and safely measure AC current up to 100 amps. No need to clamp the fork shut or break the circuit.

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Regulator Involvement in Writing the CE Code: Guiding Safe Installations for More Than 80 Years

The Canadian Electrical Code, Part I, is an integral part of the Canadian electrical safety system — a system that works hard by design to keep, electricians, consumers, and the public safe from harm.

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Electrical Engineering Design Median Hourly Rate by Province

Saskatchewan leads Canada with the highest Hourly rate for electrical engineers. Alberta comes in second.

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Electrical Engineering Hourly Rates

General electricians earn on average $13 more an hour than electrical technicians and engineers.

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Value of Building Permits Issued in July Declines 3.5%

Canadian municipalities issued $7.9 billion worth of building permits in July, down 3.5% from June and the first decrease since March 2017. Lower construction intentions for commercial buildings and multi-family dwellings were mainly responsible for the national decline. The total value of permits was down in seven provinces, led by lower construction intentions for multi-family dwellings and commercial buildings in Ontario.

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How One Hospital Is Improving Patient Care with Advanced Analytics

Demand for healthcare is outstripping capacity, but Toronto’s Humber River Hospital has a solution: a digital Command Centre powered by GE’s Wall of Analytics. As populations grow and age, many hospitals are being stretched past their limits. Rather than apply temporary or partial fixes to address the challenges that underlie this busy, acute care hospital, Toronto’s Humber River Hospital has chosen to implement a holistic, state-of-the-art hospital command centre that will enable it to achieve radical gains in quality and efficiency.

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Creating the World’s Most Connected Bridge

An iconic architectural feature of the Montreal skyline by day, the Jacques Cartier Bridge now shines with an innovative lighting signature that celebrates the unique engineering of its historic structure. Thanks to intelligent programming connected in real time to big data and social media networks, this bridge is by most measures the most connected bridge in the world.

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Joe’s Gone. Now What?!

In May, Statistics Canada released data from the 2016 census reporting that seniors now outnumber children for the first time in the survey’s history. The percentage of those aged 65 and older climbed to 16.9% of Canada’s population, exceeding the share of those under 15 years old at 16.6%.

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Electrical Estimator Annual Salary Overview

Electrical estimators earn little in the way of profit sharing and bonuses in the Canadian Electrical Industry.

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Relighting the National Bank of Canada’s Trading Floor

The National Bank of Canada’s Montreal headquarters possesses a Grand Hall that is an ornate masterpiece. Its rose, Italian Tavernelle marble walls, Corinthian colonnades of syenite, with black Belgian marble bases, its bronze railings and door frames, golden ornamented moulding, ceiling panels, and large colonnades are a majestic throwback to a bygone era. The lighting design needed to accentuate and celebrate this historic structure’s arresting grandeur without washing out the ornate details, while also creating a functional and welcoming workplace.

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Creating Dynamic Functional Lighting for an Architectural Firm

Vigilant Global, a Montreal-based research, development and information technology company, mandated Provencher Roy to redesign its offices in Montreal. LumiGroup, a key collaborator in lighting for the project assisted the interior designers in enhancing each room with lighting adapted for a refined, modern and dynamic environment.

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How to Have a Hassle-Free Tax Season: 3 Tips for Small Business Owners

How to Use the Fluke T6 Electrical Testers with FieldSense Technology

Floyd Lau: Founder of Amptek Technologies

Smart Building Market to Quadruple by 2022

Keeping the Gate Closed, and Other Non-Negotiables

Troubleshoot Electrical Systems Safer and Faster with New Tester: Part 1

Regulator Involvement in Writing the CE Code: Guiding Safe Installations for More Than 80 Years

Electrical Engineering Design Median Hourly Rate by Province

Electrical Engineering Hourly Rates

Value of Building Permits Issued in July Declines 3.5%

How One Hospital Is Improving Patient Care with Advanced Analytics

Creating the World’s Most Connected Bridge

Joe’s Gone. Now What?!

Electrical Estimator Annual Salary Overview

Relighting the National Bank of Canada’s Trading Floor

Creating Dynamic Functional Lighting for an Architectural Firm

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