HOW ARE YOU?
Take a mental-health checkpoint BY ALLISON ROGERS Nearly at the year mark in this global pandemic, you are undoubtedly tired. We all are. Days drag on like cold molasses. We miss social contact. A return to ‘normal life’ seems six horizons away. What strategies are you taking to keep yourself sane? Conversations recognizing the importance […]
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MENTOR?
In my experience… BY BEN HART I love this trade. Collision repair has treated me well from an eager apprentice, to a journeyman and now an instructor. With that said, it hasn’t all been a fairy tale of ideology. I had a few rough years, made many mistakes and ventured down the wrong path at […]
PREPPING FOR PERFECTION
Andre’s journey to finding his groove Unsure of what to do at the end of high school, Andre Figueiredo decided to take a year off to explore his options. At first, he enjoyed working in construction, but the bitter cold was something he did not want to endure once winter came around. One day, Andre […]
REV IT UP
Buckle in—it’s about to get thrilling BY DARRYL SIMMONS It would be easy to throw in the towel right now. A year deep in this global crisis, many are exhausted. They’ve been exhausted. But why on Earth would anyone in Canada’s automotive trade want to? There has never been a more exciting time to be […]
REALITY CHECK
There is nothing normal about the ‘new normal’ BY STEFANO LIESSI Here we are—we survived to see 2021 despite the hackneyed persona of its predecessor 2020. As many of you likely are, I am rather bitter about 2020, it was a less than pleasant experience for many of us, resemblant to that of having the […]
