At the end of each year, we share a summary of our most-read stories. This year, we’re highlighting the stories you clicked on the most from our website as well as our Daily Media Report. This 2025 wrap-up tells the story of a shifting political landscape and some important topics that arose in the engineering community.
Explore the most read stories below:
Top five stories from Engineers Canada Website
For Pride Month, Engineers Canada, in partnership with TD Insurance, hosted a webinar to bring together professionals from across engineering, technology, trades, and finance to discuss the importance of allyship among colleagues in the workplace, and shed light on what meaningful support looks like in practice.
From centering lived experience, to identifying the role of allies and the actions that can be taken towards building more inclusive spaces, panelists shared their insights, highlighting the opportunities that exist and the roles that we all play in supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ folks in the workplace. Missed the webinar? Watch the recording here.
2025 marked the 100th anniversary of the Calling of an Engineer, the ceremony at which engineering students receive their iron rings. This year, the Corporation launched a newly modernized ceremony, and the Royal Canadian Mint joined the celebrations with a new fine silver coin that pays homage to the contributions of Canada’s engineers over the past century.
This new ceremony maintains the historical elements of the ceremony the review committee believed still have meaning, including the obligation and the iron ring, while updating or adding other elements. Read more.
In Canada, only those licensed by a provincial or territorial engineering regulator may practise engineering and refer to themselves as an “engineer”. These restricted titles include Professional Engineer, Professional Licensee (engineering), P. Eng., P.L. (Eng.), or any title including the word engineer or a related abbreviation.
This enforcement is a critical component of public protection as licensed engineers are required to ensure public safety in their work. Learn more about the use of the title ‘engineer’.
Earlier this year, a tariff dispute began between Canada and the United States, creating pressures on the Canadian economy. This article highlighted the need to reduce labour mobility barriers for engineers and the work Canada’s engineering regulators have been undertaking for many years to achieve this goal.
This includes the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and other policies and processes that will benefit engineers. Engineers Canada continues to assist the regulators in further enhancing, harmonizing and improving the policies, systems, and tools within the existing regulatory framework. Read more.
Several of Canada’s engineering regulators launched a campaign to draw attention to the fraudulent use of engineering stamps and signatures, and to remind the public and those who hire engineers of the importance of verifying engineering credentials.
The Verify Before You Hire campaign is a joint effort by Engineers Nova Scotia, Engineers Geoscientists New Brunswick, Engineers PEI, and Engineers Yukon. It is a response to the real-world cases where impersonators have forged seals, signatures, digital stamps, submitted false building permit applications, and provided unsafe or unverified engineering advice.
Learn more about the campaign.
Top five stories from the Daily Media Report
After a fatal June rockfall in Banff National Park, CBC spoke with scientists and engineers on the challenges of predicting rockfalls, who agreed that it would have been impossible for Parks Canada to predict or prevent the massive rockfall.
This July article described a new roundabout in Langford, BC, where two crosswalk signal buttons were installed several steps off the sidewalk, awkwardly placed in the middle of flowerbeds. To activate the buttons, pedestrians must veer off the path and step into the landscaping – a nuisance for most, but a near-impossible task for those with mobility challenges.
- Consulting engineering leaders launch podcast, Canadian Consulting Engineer
Engineers Michael Wrinch, P.Eng., CEO of Hedgehog Technologies, and Graham Lovely, P.Eng., partner at MCW Group of Companies, launched a podcast in July called Between Two Firms that will discuss the opportunities and challenges that today’s engineers face.
- Good Roads conference highlights: ‘Car bloat,’ transportation design, First Nations involvement, Daily Commercial News
This article highlighted key presentations and speakers from the Good Roads Conference in Toronto, ON, in March, including a keynote address about the detrimental effects of ‘car bloat,’ another address about transportation design and safety, and a speech about First Nations involvement in infrastructure projects.
In this July interview, ÉTS construction engineering professor Sébastien Jacquet, ing, describes the Ice Box Challenge. Originally launched by a Belgian engineer, Jacquet brought it to his engineering students at ÉTS, challenging them to build an installation that would conserve a big block of ice, without air conditioning, for three weeks.
