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Honour the Work: Encouraging students into skilled trades careers

Ontario Construction News staff writer

With the construction industry facing a labour crisis and no national “one stop shop” available to connect Canadians to skilled trades resources, Angela Coldwell, Jen Hancock and Tim Coldwell decided to create one.

Honour the Work is seeking to inspire people to consider the skilled trades, “value craftsmanship” and honour the work.

Ontario Construction News is sharing videos each week from the Honour the Work website, to highlight stories from professionals in construction.

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In this week’s video, Nikki Noble, a welder and professor at Lambton College, talks about her decision to choose a career in the trades.

Robin MacLennan, Editor, Ontario Construction News
Robin MacLennan, Editor, Ontario Construction News
Robin MacLennan has been a reporter, photographer and editor at newspapers and magazines in Barrie, Toronto and across Canada for more than three decades. She lives in North Bay. After venturing into corporate communications and promoting hospitals and healthcare, she happily returned to journalism full-time in 2020, joining Ontario Construction News as Writer and Editor. Robin can be reached at rmaclennan@ontarioconstructionnews.com
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