NAIT NewsWatch – November 29, 2024
December 3, 2024 - For this week’s NAIT NewsWatch, we take a look at how businesses are dealing with Canadians spending less on Christmas shopping, the Ooks women’s hockey team is heading to Europe over Chri
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The cost of wood jumps significantly
As the pause on travel has been forcing people to stay home, renovation projects have been popular. Due to plants being shut down in the spring and some not even open at full capacity yet, production numbers have been low as consumer demands have skyrocketed. Chuck Connolly, the owner of Big Change Home Improvement says […]
Two NAIT graduates are running a VR game company
Two graduates of NAIT are the owner of the virtual reality game company, Game OVR. Stephanie Roberge and Eric Roberge are both graduates of NAIT’s electrician program, and they had been working as electricians for over ten years. Stephanie said that it has been tough to continue working as an electrician due to a lack of opportunities […]
NAITSA rolls out financial advice program
NAIT’s Students’ Association is offering assistance to students struggling with their finances. They have unveiled an online financial advisory program that offers students monetary advice, counselling and education. “We’re trying to decrease as much stress as we can for students,” Haley Pickard of the NAIT Students’ Association explains, “because worrying about your money is not […]
Murriel Mapa turned a pandemic hobby into an embroidery business
Lockdown was the beginning of Murriel Mapa’s new passion and small business. An embroidery artist, Mapa says, “a friend of mine has sent me an axis kit with everything I need for an embroidery hoop. And it came with everything: it came with thread, came with hoop, material, and everything. There was a pattern already […]