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Registration for MRU fall sessions starting in November are now OPEN.
Please note that all Winter 2019 session registration opens on November 13, 2018.
Interested where these courses can take you? Have a look at the current job opportunities across Canada on the BMCC website.
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Will Dugger has been hired to Coast Distributor's outside sales team. With over 25 years of experience in sales, Will has added his expertise to the team. Read the full news release.
David Scheltgen has been promoted to outside sales team at Coast Distributors. David looks forward to helping new and existing customers on Northern Vancouver Island.
Congratulations to WRLA Member Coast Distributors for your continued growth!
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Kurt Norlen has transitioned into the new role of National Procurement Manager at TIMBER MART. In addition to his current responsibilities of developing many of their national and regional programs as well as ones for Spancan, Norlen will assume added responsibilities during TIMBER MART’s program negotiations.
Read the full news release.
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The WRLA is pleased to announce new members:
We look forward to many prosperous years of partnership with you. Welcome to the WRLA family.
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November 26 & 27 – Manual Estimating Level 1 (Decks & Garages), Winnipeg
November 28 & 29 – Manual Estimating Level 2 (Residential Construction), Winnipeg
November 30 – Principles of Yard and Warehouse Operations, Winnipeg
January 16, 17, and 18, 2019 – WRLA Buying Show
January 17, 2019 – Annual General Meeting
NexGEN Edmonton tour in spring 2019. Follow WRLA on social media and stay tuned for more details on the tour.
Contact Wynne Au to renew your membership or for any member information at WynneA@wrla.org or phone 1-800-661-0253 extension 0.
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WRLA Members and their employees are automatically part of the BeingWell community where you receive:
- Unlimited, 24/7 access to tools and resources that help you improve your total health and build your personal network of wellness connections!
- An intuitive layout of the portal to simplify navigation and allow you to find what you’re looking for - fast.
- @BeingWellSocial feed on Twitter and Facebook to provide helpful tips and resource links right to your daily news feed - no search required.
- The ability to customize a BeingWell portal for your own organization exclusively! Host your own benefits and/or retirement plan details, feature sections that address your employees’ health risk areas and receive your own activity reports to demonstrate the value of this program within your organization.
We encourage you to explore your BeingWell portal through the WRLA Member Benefits webpage or with the following:
Login: WRLA
Password: BeingWell
Please share this information with your staff and team members. Use this poster to share information with your team.
 Home Hardware is delighted to open a second location in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador this week. Christine Hand and Craig Smith are the proud co-owners of Home Hardware Torbay Road and bring 65 combined years of hardware retailing expertise to the community.
Home Hardware Torbay Road will be celebrating a grand opening on Friday, November 16, 2018 at 10:00 AM. They welcome everyone to come celebrate as they hold the official ribbon cutting ceremony. The event will coincide with a Grand Opening Sale Flyer that will be distributed throughout the city via the Go Bag.
Read the full news release.
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 Lowe’s Canada announced the completion of the consolidation of Lowe’s Canada’s operations at the Boucherville, QC head office, which will lead to the closing of the Mississauga, ON and St. John’s, NL regional support centres in 2019. Lowe’s Canada further announced that it will close 27 under-performing corporate stores across the country, representing approximately 3% of its total retail network square footage, before the end of January 2019.
Read the full news release with a complete listing of store closures.
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Congratulations go out to:
Best Young Retailer − Tyler Dueck, Co-owner of RONA Valley Enterprises in Rosenort, Man.
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Marc Robichaud Community Leader − Fort St. John Home Hardware Building Centre in Fort St. John, B.C., Doug and Shelley Gallinger, and Darrell and Debbie Alexander, Owners.
Suppliers and retailers from across Canada gathered last night to honour the retail home improvement industry’s best hardware and home improvement retailers. The occasion was the 2018 Outstanding Retailer Awards Gala Dinner at the 23rd Annual Hardlines Conference.
Read the full news release.
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