Video of a massive machine tunneling into a future Vancouver subway station. ACEC-Ontario executive director announces retirement. Parents demand air quality improvements in BC schools. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report in late January.
Tunneling machine: Video shows Elsie, a tunneling machine named after Elsie MacGill, boring a tunnel at the future site of the Main Street station in January, marking the completion of the first section of tunnel on the Broadway Subway project in Vancouver, BC.
ACEC-Ontario: Bruce Matthews, Association of Consulting Engineering Companies-Ontario’s Executive Director since 2018, has announced that he plans to retire at the end of June 2023.
Air quality in schools: Parents are calling for BC schools to do more to improve air quality in crowded classrooms in the face of a triple epidemic of COVID-19, flu, and RSV.