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Advertise in Milestones Magazine
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Milestones Magazine has been redesigned! Don't miss this opportunity to advertise in OGRA's first issue that will sport a new look and feel! For information, please contact Colette Caruso. Deadline to submit is April 30th.
2012 Guelph Road School: May 7-9
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Space is limited and courses are filling fast for the 2012 Guelph Road School. Register Today!
OGRA's new asset management certificate
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OGRA is pleased to announce a new certificate program for the managers of municipal capital assets. Watch for more details to come!
Partners in quality
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The 2012 Partners in Quality Seminars continue to build on the participation of OGRA's municipal representative as presenters and on the advice of the Municipal Liaison Committee to help set the agenda. All of the Partners in Quality look forward to taking full advantage of MTO's leadership role in research and development, contract management and their knowledge transfer to the industry.
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Upcoming OGRA workshops
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• Managing Your Road System Risk and Performance
• Municipal Pavement Condition Evaluation
• Flexible Pavement Rehabilitation
Trenchless Technology Road Show
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The Centre for the Advancement of Trenchless Technologies (CATT) and Trenchless Technology are once again bringing the Trenchless Road Show to Canada. The Underground Infrastructure Research International Conference and Trenchless Technology Road Show (UIR/TRS 2012) will be held in the Scotiabank Convention Centre, June 5-6, 2012, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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Precast concrete patches make the grade on Ontario highways
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It's been several years since precast concrete patches were first trialed on Ontario highways as a fast track repair and the data so far shows they're standing up to the test of traffic and time. Tom Kazmierowski, manager, materials engineering and research office at the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, says the concept is getting attention, especially in Ontario and Quebec, with Manitoba showing interest and, judging by reaction to a recent presentation at the annual conference of the Transportation Association of Canada, the rest of Canada.
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Extend the useful service life of pavements with FiberMat™Watch Video. Combining the tensile strength of fiberglass, and the waterproofing capabilities of asphalt emulsion, FiberMat™, is designed to combat pavement cracking. Contact us: dnunn@walkerind.com
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New bridge closer, says Canada's ambassador to US
The Windsor Star
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Final approval of a second bridge crossing over the Detroit River continues to inch toward the finish line, says Gary Doer, Canada's Ambassador the United States. Doer tells iPolitics.ca that only "a few more items" remain to be resolved before the new DRIC bridge (or NITC bridge in the U.S.) gets the go-ahead on the American side. The Canadian side is mostly ready to go.
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Budgets retained infrastructure bite
Daily Commercial News
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Ontarians had two budgets to sink their teeth into recently, one federal, one provincial. Whether they were good budgets or bad likely depends on the viewer's political persuasion, but most folks in the construction industry, and those who sort of loiter around its edges, would agree that it was good to see that infrastructure spending was largely preserved in both federal and provincial documents.
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Private east-west highway under study differs from federally designated corridor
Bangor Daily News
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A privately funded east-west highway favored by Peter Vigue, chairman and CEO of Cianbro Corp., that gained state funding for a feasibility study recently differs from the east-west highway that was identified as a Congressional High Priority Corridor in mid-2005.
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The widening gap in Canada's labor market
The Globe and Mail
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A fault line is splintering Canada's labor market into those who can't find work and those who can't find workers. There's no shortage of people looking for work. Some 1.4 million Canadians are unemployed, the jobless rate is still above prerecession levels and youth employment is nearly 14 percent. Despite this, employers across the country say they can't find the right workers for all kinds of available jobs.
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Troubling rise in pedestrian road toll
Otago Daily Times
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Pedestrian deaths have surged to an alarming level in defiance of a generally sinking road toll. Ten people have been run down and killed while walking since Jan. 1, compared with just one in the first three months of last year.
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