Train your staff and avoid costly estimating errors, *increase employee confidence * and build customer service. To Register and view schedules and hotel information click learn more below!

Are your ready for the 2017 WRLA Buying Show in Calgary? These next few months will fly by, so make sure you visit the WRLA website regularly for updates and announcements regarding the WRLA Buying Show in Calgary, AB January 18-20, 2017.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: When booking your hotels for the 2017 WRLA Buying Show in Calgary please use our housing bureau, and be aware of scams and junk email that you may receive. Continue reading for the 2017 WRLA Buying Show Hotel information.

Since 1990, the WRLA has demonstrated its commitment to continuing education by offering scholarships to WRLA member employees and their dependents. Over $30,000 in Bursary and Scholarship funds per academic year may be awarded to selected applicants. The 2016 Bursary program is now closed. We are accepting Scholarship applications, for details on how to apply click learn more below.

We are disappointed and surprised at the recent call for boycotts of our drywall products by some Canadian customers and certain Western Canadian Associations, and through commentary in the Canadian media, related to our Anti-Dumping Complaint and the subsequent Provisional Duties announced by the Canadian Border Services Agency on September 6. We would like to put this issue into clear context: This is about Canadian law and Canadian jobs. We filed an Anti-Dumping Complaint because drywall manufacturers based in the US were exporting large and growing volumes of products into Western Canada in the last few years at prices materially lower than those at which they are sold in the US.

Winnipeg, MB, September 19, 2016 – The most celebrated "helpful place" held their Grand Opening from September 16-18, 2016 in Lake Country, BC. Lake Country Ace Hardware, located at 3223 Woodsdale Road, will bring the company’s unique blend of personal, knowledgeable and helpful service paired with quality home maintenance expertise and products to their community. "We are extremely pleased and proud to welcome this dealer to the dealer family," explained Bill Morrison, Divisional Vice-President of Ace Canada. "They are focused on the needs of their community and have some great ideas for the future."

Ply Gem® (NYSE: PGEM), a leading North American manufacturer and distributor of building products with Canadian headquarters in Calgary, is continuing its longstanding support of Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta with a siding product donation and volunteer efforts for Calgary’s Pineridge Place neighborhood on 25th Avenue. The company donated Mitten by Ply Gem vinyl siding to outfit six four-plex homes. Additionally, as part of the Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta volunteer day Saturday, six Ply Gem associates will be on site to help build the home.