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August 24, 2018
“Many consumers do more due diligence shopping for a $20 toaster than for a $200,000 renovation”

August 17, 2018
Insulated building blocks: Cambridge, ON manufacturer has something really cool

August 10, 2018
What IS this mold-preventing product that Mike Holmes used?

August 10, 2018
Comment on the contractor who got cash from homeowner’s wife – after homeowner refused to do cash deal

August 3, 2018
I’m not paying you cash, he tells the contractor, firmly. So the contractor collects the cash from his wife while he’s out…

August 3, 2018
Apprenticeship ratio stupidity in Ontario: Comment number 5,033

July 27, 2018
Comments about the Alberta homeowner who won two judgments against fly-by-night ‘contractor’

July 27, 2018
Quebec, unions and construction ‘volunteers’

July 20, 2018
Dispensing with GreenOn rebate program in Ontario, without a replacement plan, was unwise

July 20, 2018
Why doesn’t Ottawa seek industry sponsors so that National Building Code can be FREE for EVERYONE to read?

July 11, 2018
Are these guys for real? Politicians tap dancing as fast as they can on stupid decisions

July 10, 2018
Wish you’d chosen a 9-5 job? Lessons from Anthony Bourdain’s apprenticeship bestseller

July 10, 2018
Scam where “customer” needs renovations on a home they do not own is common

July 5, 2018
An old pro has some valuable advice for frustrated youths trying to break into the trades

July 5, 2018
“It’s inconceivable that the IBEW have so much power to screw people over…”

July 4, 2018
This insulation contractor is sorry to see the end of GreenOn rebates

June 29, 2018
Ontario’s screwed up apprenticeship ratios: Is IBEW “a closed shop catering to sons or daughters of members?”

June 22, 2018
Contracting and telling “white lies” to clients

June 22, 2018
Ontario elects Doug Ford premier: Tell Jill Dunlop, MPP, to push for the abolition of the Ontario College of Trades!

June 15, 2018
Memo to Ontario Premier-Elect Doug Ford: The Ontario College of Trades is “extortion and nothing less!”

June 15, 2018
Skilled trades shortage? What skilled trades shortage?

June 8, 2018
Contractor reaction to the Ontario election result (2)

June 8, 2018
Contractor reaction to the Ontario election results (1)

June 1, 2018
New generation of residential trades doesn’t want to do the grunt work, he argues

June 1, 2018
Electrical contractor can’t hire the staff he needs because of Ontario’s apprenticeship ratios

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June 1, 2018
On the brink of an Ontario election, here’s one contractor’s take on construction unions (and it’s not pretty)