ollowing the tragic discovery of unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools across Canada, many of us have been seeking meaningful ways to show our support for residential school survivors, their descendants, and the children who never returned home.

The Boilermaker Trade, one of the original 13 trades that first achieved the Red Seal status almost 50 years ago, was recently identified by the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum as the trade that has the highest completion rate of the red seal trades in Canada.

On the Canadian Pacific Northwest sits the city of Kitimat BC and the LNG Canada export facility, the largest private investment in Canadian history. 

Brother Dalas Santavy of Lodge 128 was the head coach of the Canadian Olympic weightlifting team in Tokyo this summer. Dalas reports “The Canadian weightlifting team did an outstanding job at these Olympics, the summer heat of Tokyo along with COVID-19 added extra stress to the event.”