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  Job stability. Growing salaries. Expanding opportunities. Learn about the sector that gets more tech-focused every day.
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  Work with industrial machinery on a wide variety of applications. Precision. Sophistication. Life-long learning guaranteed.
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  Fashion, food and more. There’s nothing like helping people look and feel their best, or enjoy the best that cooking and baking have to offer.
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  Skilled trades on the move. Discover your career options maintaining, repairing and overhauling vehicles.
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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Control over the weather indoors … temperature, humidity, total air quality. You make it possible.

Sprinkler Fitter

You help protect us all. You build and maintain all types of sprinkler systems for fire protection purposes.

Bricklaying

This is physical work, creative work, outside, with your hands. Welcome to life as a bricklayer.

Industrial Control

You’re an automation and control technician. You’re an expert at the point where electricity and devices meet.

Architectural Technology and Design

You prepare construction and other plans using computer-aided design software (CAD). No building gets off the ground without your plans.

Welding

You’re essential. You make metal things of all kinds stronger. You’re a connector. Welcome to your career as a welder.

Steamfitter Pipefitter

You make and maintain piping systems that carry water, steam, chemicals and fuel. You go where there’s flow.

Sheet Metal Work

And the cry went out, “Sheet!” when more material was needed. “Sheet!” Once it came, you could make almost anything.

Plumbing

You install, repair and maintain domestic, commercial or industrial plumbing systems. In an emergency, your popularity is guaranteed.

Carpentry

Measure, cut, shape and assemble with wood. Join the largest single group of skilled workers in Canada.

Landscape Gardening

There’s simply nothing else like it. You create and enhance the outdoor spaces where we live, work, and play.

Electrical Installations

You bring electricity (and data) to people, lights and devices of all kinds. No trade does more to bring buildings and facilities to life.

Cabinetmaking

You are master at woodworking and precision. Welcome to a career in cabinetmaking.

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