WHAT’S YOUR BEAT?

THE SOUNDTRACK OF COLLISION REPAIR BY MAX REID The bodyshop can be a noisy place; someone could be welding in one area, a heavy-duty fan could be blowing in another, reception is bustling with customers and phones are ringing all day long—maybe there’s a shouting match with an insurer, or two. It can be easy […]

TOMORROW’S TECHS

THE STATE OF THE MODERN AUTOSHOP CLASS BY DAVID DICENZO Matthew Lyle clearly remembers helping lead the inaugural Electric Car Team at Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute as somewhat of a “catastrophe.” In 2016, Lyle, the Head of Technical Education at the Guelph-based high school, partnered with his Transportation Technology teacher colleague Dennis Ashley to form […]

THE ARTIST’S EYE

How Keegan De France finds zen at one of Toronto’s busiest shops BY MAX REID If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. An old cliche adage that, for artists, often reads more like a statement on the difficulty of making a living than it does an encouraging line […]