Industry News - April, 2020

Stay Strong, Stay Healthy, Stay Home - The Supply Post Team

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Apr 24, 2020 - 5 years ago
Meals For Wheels

L-R: Peter Milobar (Kamloops-North Thompson MLA), Greg Munden, and Todd Stone (MLA Kamloops-South Thompson and former Minister of Transportation). Photo courtesy Meals for Truck Drivers BC Facebook page.

FRONT PAGE STORY: The Meals for Truck Drivers BC Program, which began as a grass-roots movement to help local truckers find food during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, is quickly growing across Canada, helping one of society’s most essential workers — the professional driver.

In March of 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic had reached a point where businesses were forced to close and people were asked to stay home. Everyone, that is, except essential workers like the professional truck driver.

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Apr 22, 2020 - 5 years ago
Ensuring Meals & Facilities Are Available For Truckers Across Canada During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Our mission to #feedatrucker is a grassroots community movement started in Kamloops, BC with the guidance and support of BC business owners and the BC Trucking Association to ensure truckers across Canada have the resources & support they need during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Apr 20, 2020 - 5 years ago
FPAC SHARES WITH MPS OPTIMISM FOR THE FUTURE DESPITE CURRENT CHALLENGES

On April 17th Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) President and CEO appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance to share with MPs how Canada’s forest sector and workers are managing through the current COVID-19 crisis. He also presented to the Committee ideas on how the industry and government can work together to get through the difficult months ahead, and quickly turn to recovery and growth again in 2021.

During his testimony, Derek Nighbor noted how the sector has embraced its role as an essential provider of health, household, and industrial products and thanked all workers along the value chain. “Our workers and partners along the supply chain have been incredible. We can’t say ‘thank you’ enough to our mill workers, further manufacturers, truck drivers, railroaders, and retailers – I could go on,” he said.

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Apr 17, 2020 - 5 years ago
CBSA Provides Additional Guidance On Use Of Non-Medical Masks For Border Crossi

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Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has provided the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) additional guidance on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) directive that CBSA implement a policy, effective immediately, requiring all essential workers crossing the border to wear a non-medical mask or face covering.

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Apr 17, 2020 - 5 years ago
Genie To Help Fight Against Covid-19 By Producing Protective Gear For Seattle-Area Hospital

After learning of the need for medical equipment, team members worked to develop solutions that would answer the call for help

REDMOND, WA - As communities, states, and countries around the globe continue to

address the health crisis created by COVID-19, personal protection equipment (PPE) for medical

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Apr 17, 2020 - 5 years ago