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John Tackaberry Memorial Golf Tournament 2023 a Success!
Yesterday, The Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation hosted its sixth annual John Tackaberry Memorial Golf Tournament. In the spirit of John's legacy of generosity, our organization donated $300,000 to the Stollery Children's Hospital. The main focus of...
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!
June 21 marks National Indigenous People’s Day. This is a day we recognize and celebrate the cultures of the Indigenous peoples across Canada. For the Building Trades of Alberta, this means recognizing the important contributions of our First Nations, Inuit, and Métis...
Ottawa Announces Sustainable Jobs Bill
Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has tabled Bill C-50, the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act in the House of Commons, respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and economic growth in...
Hiring Intentions Survey Live Now!
As the labour market and economy heat up, the Alberta Chambers network has partnered withBuilding Trades of Alberta, industry partners and the Government of Alberta to identify hiringchallenges employers may be facing and answer important questions: Do businesses have...
Charitable Foundation Announcement
The Building Trades of Alberta Charity Foundation is excited to be hosting the John Tackaberry Memorial Golf Tournament on Thursday, June 22 at The Quarry. Registrations and breakfast will be held at 7:00am and golfing will start at 8:30am. This charity tournament is...
Millions of jobs to be ‘disrupted’ by Canada’s Just Transition as world oil demand reaches new highs
https://www.canadianenergycentre.ca/millions-of-jobs-to-be-disrupted-by-canadas-just-transition-as-world-oil-demand-reaches-new-highs/
Building Trades of Alberta and X-energy Canada Collaborate for the Future SMR Workforce
The Memorandum of Understanding is expected to increase awareness of the Xe-100 small modular reactor toward increasing efficiencies and diversity on future small modular reactor projects The Building Trades of Alberta (“BTA”) and X-energy Canada (X-Energy Canada)...
Government of Alberta Collaborates with Building Trades of Alberta to Launch Building Resiliency, a health and wellness initiative
EDMONTON, AB – The Building Trades of Alberta (BTA), will use a generous $650,000 grant from Alberta Health to invest in the well-being of skilled trades professionals. The funding will be used to create an innovative program (Building Resiliency) to promote and raise...
Trades and Apprenticeship Community of Expertise
BTA's 60,000 members are some of the best trained, highest skilled and safest construction workers in the world. Whether you attended NAIT, SAIT or took training at another technical training centre, you are the backbone of construction in Alberta. The Ministry of...