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Premier Wynne Selects Her Cabinet

Upon being sworn in as the new Premier and becoming the Minister of Agriculture, Premier Wynne has revealed who will compromise her new cabinet.

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Tomorrow's Canadian Association of Women in Construction (CAWIC) membership drive is a chance for non-members and members to connect and create new relationships, says the organizations president.

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Contractor Elem Rinomato, president of Trino Drywall, recalls the first time she attended a meeting of the Interior Systems Contractors Association of Ontario some 20 years ago.

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In keeping with its mission of encouraging and supporting the entry of women into the industry, the Canadian Association of Women in Construction (CAWIC) is donating $2,000 to a recently launched Canadian military employment transition program.
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Mary Ross and Sandy Law have never met, but both say they made a life-altering decision this year.
The women are at different points in their lives – Ms. Ross of Burlington, Ont., is 27 while Ms. Law, who lives in Cambridge, Ont., is 46 – but each was unsatisfied with the direction of their working lives.....

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Several openings in the GTA for flaggers to direct Traffic.

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Carpenters' Local 27 in Toronto donated skilled labour to assemble 170 wood planters for the Celebrate Yonge Festival - the city's pilot project to open two vehicular traffic lanes to pedestrians from Aug. 17 to Sept. 17 on Yonge Street from Gerrard south to Queen Street.

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August 30 deadline for school backpack donations to Grand Valley Construction Association Women in Construction, for needy children in Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area.

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Last Thursday evening at the local Movember headquarters .... October's event, the Toronto edition of the global speakers's series on "ideas worth spreading".
Fittingly for a discussion held in a room full of moustache paraphernalia, talk was over the trouble with women - that is, recruiting enough to make TEDx less of a sausage fest.
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