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Brother Stefano Boghossian operates a Pecco PC-1600 Tower Crane working with a picturesque view of a golf course on Muskoka Bay Resort. The project is a 7-storey, 88-unit condominium in Gravenhurst on North Muldrew Lake Road. The supposed end date is March 2025. GC: Firstcon Group Ltd. Contractor: JMS Forming Ltd.

Brother Stefano Boghossian operates a Pecco PC-1600 Tower Crane working with a picturesque view of a golf course on Muskoka Bay Resort.

The project is a 7-storey, 88-unit condominium in Gravenhurst on North Muldrew Lake Road. The supposed end date is March 2025.

GC: Firstcon Group Ltd.
Contractor: JMS Forming Ltd.

Brother Billy-Ray Vivarais operates an 8090RT Link-Belt crane on-site at Lincoln Fields station in Ottawa for the Confederation Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension project. He is stripping and loading forms onto floating concrete slabs for new rails. Stage 2 of the Confederation Line LRT extensions is expected to take approximately 14,000 cars off the road to help to relieve traffic congestion during peak hours and reduce carbon emissions by 155,000 tonnes over 25 years. Contractor: Bellai Alliance Construction General Contractor: Kiewit/Eurovia/Vinci Lincoln Fields station General Contractor: PCL Construction

Brother Billy-Ray Vivarais operates an 8090RT Link-Belt crane on-site at Lincoln Fields station in Ottawa for the Confederation Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension project. He is stripping and loading forms onto floating concrete slabs for new rails.

Stage 2 of the Confederation Line LRT extensions is expected to take approximately 14,000 cars off the road to help to relieve traffic congestion during peak hours and reduce carbon emissions by 155,000 tonnes over 25 years.

Contractor: Bellai Alliance Construction
General Contractor: Kiewit/Eurovia/Vinci
Lincoln Fields station General Contractor: PCL Construction

Brother Bill Neville is deemed one of Ottawa’s best amateur fossil hunters. Read more about this Local 793 member from Finch, Ontario and how excavating for a living fueled an interest in fossil identification below. 🔗 Click here to read the Ottawa Citizen article

Brother Bill Neville is deemed one of Ottawa’s best amateur fossil hunters. Read more about this Local 793 member from Finch, Ontario and how excavating for a living fueled an interest in fossil identification below.

🔗 Click here to read the Ottawa Citizen article

Happy Nunavut Day to our Brothers and Sisters in Canada’s largest territory. ᐅᓪᓗᖃᑦᑎᐊᕆᔅᓯ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓐᓂ! July 9th marks the passing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act, enabling the Inuit to independently govern this region (formerly part of the Northwest Territories). Today, please join us in celebrating by acknowledging Nunavummiut’s significant cultural, social, and economic contributions to our country.

Happy Nunavut Day to our Brothers and Sisters in Canada’s largest territory. ᐅᓪᓗᖃᑦᑎᐊᕆᔅᓯ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓐᓂ!

July 9th marks the passing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act, enabling the Inuit to independently govern this region (formerly part of the Northwest Territories).

Today, please join us in celebrating by acknowledging Nunavummiut’s significant cultural, social, and economic contributions to our country.

Brother Todd Casselman operates a Volvo EC480E excavator, loading rock trucks at the Ottawa Waste Management Facility (Carp Landfill) for a new waste-holding cell on-site in Ottawa. GC: Tomlinson Group

Brother Todd Casselman operates a Volvo EC480E excavator, loading rock trucks at the Ottawa Waste Management Facility (Carp Landfill) for a new waste-holding cell on-site in Ottawa.

GC: Tomlinson Group

Brothers Jeff Owen, mobile crane operator, and Jackson Huibers, apprentice, install an overhead road sign on the eastbound Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). Three lanes on the QEW, from Dixie Road to West Mall Bridge, were closed for the installation. Equipment: Manitex TC60131 60-ton truck mount crane GC: Toronto Zenith Contractors: Powell Contracting and Vision Equipment Watch the video below. 

Brothers Jeff Owen, mobile crane operator, and Jackson Huibers, apprentice, install an overhead road sign on the eastbound Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). Three lanes on the QEW, from Dixie Road to West Mall Bridge, were closed for the installation.

Equipment: Manitex TC60131 60-ton truck mount crane
GC: Toronto Zenith
Contractors: Powell Contracting and Vision Equipment

Watch the video below.

Heat warnings have been issued, stretching from Windsor and the United States border in the west across into Quebec. The ‘multi-day heat event’ is expected to last until Thursday across Ontario. Local 793 operators and employers should prepare beforehand, recognize symptoms of heat-related illnesses and know how to treat them when problems arise. For more information, please visit: https://iuoelocal793.org/heat-stress-signs-and-signals-2/

Heat warnings have been issued, stretching from Windsor and the United States border in the west across into Quebec. The ‘multi-day heat event’ is expected to last until Thursday across Ontario.

Local 793 operators and employers should prepare beforehand, recognize symptoms of heat-related illnesses and know how to treat them when problems arise.
For more information, please visit: https://iuoelocal793.org/heat-stress-signs-and-signals-2/

Wishing our American Brothers and Sisters a happy, healthy and safe Independence Day.

Wishing our American Brothers and Sisters a happy, healthy and safe Independence Day.

Please be advised that Local 793 offices across the province will be closed Monday, July 3 to mark the Canada Day holiday. Regular office hours will resume Tuesday, July 4. Please have a safe and enjoyable long weekend.

Please be advised that Local 793 offices across the province will be closed Monday, July 3 to mark the Canada Day holiday.

Regular office hours will resume Tuesday, July 4.

Please have a safe and enjoyable long weekend.

Let us all take a moment today to look back at the many incredible contributions of Canadians throughout history and celebrate the place we call home. Our nation has made substantial progress over the past few years, especially thanks to our members and the working people throughout the country building the future. Here’s to continued growth, reconciliation, prosperity and new opportunities. May you enjoy this Canada Day long weekend with your families and friends. 

Let us all take a moment today to look back at the many incredible contributions of Canadians throughout history and celebrate the place we call home. Our nation has made substantial progress over the past few years, especially thanks to our members and the working people throughout the country building the future.

Here’s to continued growth, reconciliation, prosperity and new opportunities.

May you enjoy this Canada Day long weekend with your families and friends.