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Worker injured after hair gets caught in rotating driveshaft An Alberta employer has been fined $80,000 after a worker was seriously injured when her hair became entangled in a rotating driveshaft below a conveyer belt. How did this happen? >> Read full article
Manufacturing sales dropped 0.6 per cent in October: StatsCan Statistics Canada has reported that manufacturing sales fell 0.6 per cent in October, the second drop this year. What, according to StatsCan, is the main result of this decrease? >> Read full article
$759M merger for Norbord, Ainsworth Lumber Two Canadian wood product companies, Norbord and Ainsworth Lumber, announced they will combine their businesses through a $759-million deal to create a global producer of oriented strand board. >> Read full article
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Cascades to sell Canadian boxboard unit to Graphic Packaging Quebec-based Cascades has reached a deal to sell its North American boxboard manufacturing and converting assets to Georgia-based Graphic Packaging Holding Company. The affected operations collectively employ nearly 700 people. Find out which operations in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba are included in the deal. >> Learn More…




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