Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Kibret Mequanint, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Research and Development. We are pleased to share his citation for this…
Last week (December 1, 2022), OSPE responded to the call for consultation for the Amendments to Certain Requirements under the Excess Soil Regulation. OSPE found the proposed revisions reasonable, but…
Yesterday (December 1, 2022), OSPE filed a submission in stating that the Ontario engineering community strongly opposes the proposed building on protected Greenbelt lands. Converting Greenbelt lands to residential development…
OSPE celebrates the Ontario Government’s introduction of the Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act on November 23. This act, if passed, will implement measures to strengthen provincial supply chains, make…
The engineering profession, through its national body – Engineers Canada – has endorsed the goal of achieving 30% representation of newly licensed women in the engineering profession by 2030. Procurement…
Earlier this year, OSPE encouraged the Federal government to invest in Canada’s aerospace sector during our budget analysis. The provincial budget provoked an additional call for more workforce support to…
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) congratulates all new and returning members of Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet, who were sworn in on June 24. We are pleased to see…
In late 2021, OSPE was awarded funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) to explore the potential to use public procurement policy to advance diversity goals in the procurement of…
Photo courtesy of Evan Mitsui/CBC The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers congratulates the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party on being re-elected with a majority government. We would like to extend our…
The global pandemic has brought attention to many issues that previously were only of interest to small cadres of insiders and subject matter experts. One issue whose profile has been…
