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  • B.C.-Based Organizations Partner To Improve Forest Fibre Utilization And Forest Resilience

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    May 11, 2020 - 5 years ago

  • BASF Canada Donates Over $64,000 To Food Banks Canada

    BASF will join COVID-19 hunger relief efforts with a $64,398.20 donation to Food Banks Canada. The company’s employees participated in a virtual food drive in March and April to support the 3,000+ food banks and community agencies across Canada. The contribution will support food purchasing, distribution and resourcing for food banks across the country helping ensure that Canadians have the support they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “Ensuring Canadians have access to an affordable, abundant and safe food supply is a common mission the agriculture industry strives to provide each and every day,” said Jonathan Sweat, Vice President, Business Management, Agricultural Solutions for BASF Canada. “The need is never more pressing than during and after a crisis of this magnitude. Through this donation our employees are supporting food banks in the communities where they – and our customers – live and work and I couldn’t be prouder of the united contribution.”

    BASF employees throughout Canada participated in the virtual food drive by making financial contributions online. All funds raised will be donated to Food Banks Canada to be dispersed to food banks across the country including the communities where BASF employees live and work.

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    May 11, 2020 - 5 years ago

  • Improving highways, creating jobs in central Alberta

    Government is getting nearly 500 Albertans back to work by funding maintenance to highways, bridges, pothole repairs and other safety measures throughout the Central Region of the province. 

    These projects are part of the $2 billion that government announced on April 9 in response to the COVID-19 recession.

    “Every region of the province has felt the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the collapse of energy prices. We are doing everything we can to get Albertans back to work, and these projects will create good jobs for central Albertans while improving driving conditions and ensuring our important transportation corridors are ready to support the region’s businesses and job creators, once the economy recovers.”

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    May 11, 2020 - 5 years ago

  • Supporting Alberta’s Agriculture Industry

    In response to the mass disruptions in the agriculture industry caused by COVID-19, the Government of Alberta is introducing several new supports to help farmers and ranchers through AgriRecovery.

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    May 11, 2020 - 5 years ago

  • WAJAX ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

    Wajax Corporation (“Wajax” or the “Corporation”) announced on May 8th that the nominees listed in the Corporation’s management proxy circular dated March 3, 2020 have been elected as directors of Wajax. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Corporation held on May 5, 2020 in Mississauga, Ontario are set out below. On a vote conducted by ballot, each of the following nine nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of Wajax:

    Wajax Corporation Founded in 1858, Wajax (TSX: WJX) is one of Canada’s longest-standing and most diversified industrial products and services providers. The Corporation operates an integrated distribution system providing sales, parts and services to a broad range of customers in diverse sectors of the Canadian economy, including: construction, forestry, mining, industrial and commercial, oil sands, transportation, metal processing, government and utilities, and oil and gas

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    May 8, 2020 - 5 years ago

  • Building Industry Supports Ontario Government’s Decision To Allow Resumption Of Below-Grade Constructio

    The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and the Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA) welcome the Government of Ontario’s decision to allow the resumption of below-grade construction under the COVID-19 Emergency Orders. Each step that is taken toward returning to normal construction activity allows the industry to meet the housing needs of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ontario.

    “With almost two thirds of the new housing units delivered each year in the GTA being in high-rise buildings, the resumption of below-grade construction is absolutely vital to meeting the region’s housing needs,” said Dave Wilkes, President & CEO, BILD. “No work on a high-rise building can start without below-grade construction being completed.”

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    May 7, 2020 - 5 years ago

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