A new president and CEO at WSP Canada. A feature on legal aspects of public engagement for infrastructure projects. An engineer helps an 11-year-old boy play hockey. These were the most-read stories from the Daily Media Report in late April and early May.
WSP Canada: Marie-Claude Dumas has been named the new president and CEO of Montreal-based design and engineering consultancy WSP Canada. WSP Canada also announced that it has closed its acquisition of Golder, a global engineering consulting firm.
Public engagement: Canadian Consulting Engineer took a look at the potential legal risks and considerations for consultants retained to provide services in relation to public engagement for infrastructure projects.
Hockey dreams: Leonard Lye, a retired Memorial University of Newfoundland engineering professor helped make an 11-year-old's dream of playing minor hockey come true. Lye created a custom hockey glove for Carter Burton, whose form of cerebral palsy means that he cannot physically put his fingers into the separate dividers of a regular hockey glove.
