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Operation Safe Driver Week

Operation Safe Driver Week

Jul 05, 2022 | Business Operations, Compliance, CVSA

Operation Safe Driver Week is a safe-driving awareness and outreach initiative aimed at improving the driving behaviors of passenger vehicle...

CRA Admits Losing Over $23B a Year in Unpaid Taxes

CRA Admits Losing Over $23B a Year in Unpaid Taxes

Jun 30, 2022 | Business Operations, Compliance, Government

The federal government is letting $23.4 billion a year in uncollected taxes escape into the underground economy, Canada Revenue Agency’s...

STA's Ewart speaks on Transportation at Canada's Farm Show

STA's Ewart Speaks on Transportation at Canada's Farm Show

Jun 29, 2022 | Business Operations, Careers, Driver Shortage, Driving the Economy, Economy, Supply Chain

Saskatchewan Trucking Association (STA) Executive Director, Susan Ewart spoke last week at Canada's Farm Show, hosted in Regina Saskatchewan. Ewart,...

Paving the Way for Women in Trucking

Paving the Way for Women in Trucking

Jun 28, 2022 | Careers, Driver Shortage, MELT, Safety, Saskatchewan, Supply Chain

The STA’s Women Shifting Gears (WSG) program in partnership with the YWCA of Saskatoon just completed its second cohort of...

Sask. Trucking Association wants vaccine mandates lifted at land borders

Sask. Trucking Association wants vaccine mandates lifted at land borders

Jun 17, 2022 | Business Operations, Compliance, Cross Border, Government, News Releases

The vaccination mandate at the Canada-U.S. border came into effect in January, causing a major backlash among trucking groups and...

Labour Minister Takes on Driver Inc. in House of Commons

Labour Minister Takes on Driver Inc. in House of Commons

Jun 17, 2022 | Business Operations, Compliance, Driver Shortage

Canadian Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan issued the federal government’s strongest statement yet against the trucking industry misclassification scheme known as...

Sask. Trucking Association hoping for end to vaccine requirements

Sask. Trucking Association hoping for end to vaccine requirements

Jun 16, 2022 | Business Operations, COVID-19, Cross Border, Vaccine

The vaccination mandate at the Canada-U.S. border is set to come to an end for many air travellers Monday, but...

Feds Confirm Border Vaccine Mandate Remains in Place for Truck Drivers; Domestic Mandate for Federally Regulated Sectors Suspended

Feds Confirm Border Vaccine Mandate Remains in Place for Truck Drivers; Domestic Mandate for Federally Regulated Sectors Suspended

Jun 14, 2022 | Business Operations, CBSA, Compliance, Cross Border

(TORONTO, June 14, 2022) -- Government of Canada announced today that the mandatory vaccination mandate at the land border remains...

Trucking HR Canada’s CEO named to C.D. Howe Institute’s Human Capital Policy Council

Trucking HR Canada’s CEO named to C.D. Howe Institute’s Human Capital Policy Council

Jun 14, 2022 | Labour Market Information

Ottawa, ON (June 13, 2022), Trucking HR Canada today announced its CEO, Angela Splinter, has been invited to join the...

Rising Fuel Costs Impacting Saskatchewan's Trucking Industry

Rising Fuel Costs Impacting Saskatchewan's Trucking Industry

Jun 08, 2022 | Advocacy, Business Operations, Carbon Pricing, Carbon Tax, Driving the Economy, News Releases, Supply Chain

Saskatchewan Trucking Association Executive Director, Susan Ewart joined Global Saskatoon this morning to discuss the impact rising fuel costs are...

The STA, YWCA Saskatoon and Saskatchewan Ministry of Immigration and Career Training have launched a pilot-program to encourage more woman to participate in the trucking industry.

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