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Canada Job Grants – funding available for employers to train workforce.

The Canada Job Grant is an employer-driven training program. This means that employers decide on who gets training and what type of training may be needed for new and existing employees. Employers must use a third-party training provider to deliver...

Canada – Ontario Job Grant – funding is available for employers to train workforce in Ontario.

On March 28, 2014, Ontario signed the Canada-Ontario Job Fund Agreement with the federal government. The agreement is a key source of funding for new initiatives to help Ontario's employers develop their workforce through employer-led training. We have found out...

The Key Notch

In some cases, trees are hung or snagged because they have been uprooted.  In these situations determining where the loads are concentrated can be difficult, and often the root plate is a stronger force to be considered than the hung...

Success Chainsaw Train the Trainer Event!

Last week near Caroline, AB - a successful week of Chainsaw Train the Trainer.  Here is a re-cap! https://vimeo.com/110079520

Arboriculture Canada is a National Awarding Body (NAB) with the ABA (Awarding Body Association) International.

We are proud to announce that we have been accepted as members of the ABA International body.  Arboriculture Canada is now a National Awarding Body (NAB).  We would like to introduce the ABA to our customers in Canada, and especially...

Review of European chainsaw fatalities, accidents and trends

An interesting article on European chainsaw fatalities, accidents and trends.  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9PYNtwS2zW2FdAAX3p2T/full

Champions of Technology – ArborCanada Featured!

Arboriculture Canada was recently selected to be interviewed as a Champion of Technology in our community of Olds, AB.  Thank you to the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development for this honor and for making the video about our...

What Makes a Good Instructor?

Recently printed in the Continental Connection newsletter. What sets one instructor apart from the majority?  Arboriculture Canada Training & Education Ltd. has developed a process for training and mentoring instructors that serves to do exactly that. As owner and lead...

Free Falling – novel written by ACTE Instructor – Tony Tresselt

I love stories.  They help us learn, remember, connect.  They can bind cultures and cohorts. They often define friends and enemies.   Arboriculture is rich with history, personalities and events.  It makes for great stories whether truth, fiction or somewhere in...

The Women’s Arboriculture Conference – Mar. 5 – 7, 2014

The Women's Arboriculture Conference is a unique experience as it is an inter-disciplinary forum addressing trees, their place in our world and our relationship with them. Speakers and delegates who are arborists, foresters, horticulturalists, landscape architects and designers, land planners...