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ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
FROM THE DESK OF MCA CANADA
Employers with fewer than 500 paid employees are eligible up to $20,000 in grants to offset the cost of hiring and training first year apprentices in 39 Red Seal Trades. Build your future workforce with support from the Canadian Apprenticeship Service for small to medium businesses. Click here for more information. At its Annual National Conference being in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada and its provincial partners announced more than $100,000 to Hurricane Fiona Relief through the Canadian Red Cross. "Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Fiona will have a significant impact on our infrastructure and those affected for years to come," said Wayne Davidson, President, and Chair of MCA Canada. "Our industry has stepped up in the past to help our fellow Canadians, and it was particularly important to us as we hold our annual conference in the maritime region." The Canadian Red Cross has established an online portal for MCA Canada members who would like to donate to the Hurricane Fiona Relief Fund. Through that portal, individuals and firms can make a contribution to this fund and support these funding efforts. MEMBERSHIP OUTLOOK
It is our pleasure to introduce our new quarterly podcast series, hosted by a committee member who will interview some of the most influential women in our industry. We use podcasts to communicate with our audience about topics relevant to the WiMC initiative. December 2022 will see the airing of Episode 1: Encouraging, Mentorship, and Retention of women in trades! Stay connected with MCA Canada's WIMC social media accounts!
ASSOCIATE MEMBER CORNER
Members Affinity Program Associate Mark's Commercial offers a Digital Discount Card exclusively to MCA Canada members. Members of the MCAC are now able to present their digital card at any Mark's Warehouse store nationwide. An email card has been sent to each company's MCA Canada Contact, who can then distribute it to employees. MCA PROVINCIAL CHAPTER NEWS
On November 28, join MCABC for cocktails, mouth-watering food and musical entertainment that will lift your spirits and get the season started off right. Get some Christmas shopping under your belt at their live auction! Proceeds directly support the Ending Violence Association of BC. The evening includes crowd-pleasing The Dueling Pianos Vancouver – start thinking of song requests! Everyone welcome! Make this your staff Christmas party and bring your significant others. Register online at https://mcabc.org/events/. INDUSTRY NEWS
LEADERSHIP, EDUCATION & TRAINING
 The MCA Canada Jobsite Journal is a daily log to help track projects, including:
• site conditions,
• weather conditions, • productivity/time loss and reasons, • area/work in progress, • subtrade reports, • daily report reminders, • and more. Daily and Weekly Reports track work site conditions, progress and delays which prevent costly claims. The Daily Reports record work site conditions and progress, while the Weekly Reports detail delays and provide space to give a more specific explanation of that week's progress.
For MCA Canada members, this valuable tool is available for only $11.50.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
 Are labour estimates taking too long and reducing your productivity and profitability? You can increase your profitability by utilizing a streamlined, systematic approach for labour estimating.
MCA Canada members will have access to the MCAA WebLEM, which streamlines labour estimating by allowing your estimators to access labour estimates that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for mechanical contractors everywhere!
You can quickly search and retrieve data with our search engine, which will look for any text that is found across the entire database and provide links to relevant information.
Download any labour table as soon as data is exported into Microsoft Excel or CSV.
Up-to-date labour units are available on our website on the latest products and joining methods. When items are new or changed, they will be highlighted in yellow over the next 12 months.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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