Request for Letters of Support: Skills for Success Program
Dig Safe Workshops with Your Damage Prevention Partners
March 2022
Update: GeoIgnite – Canada’s National Geospatial Conference
March 1–3, 2022
New Council Members
The election for junior Council members closed yesterday and the results were reviewed by scrutineers Victoria Donko and Ario Hadian.
The successful candidates were Sophie Côtéand Natalie Vibert. They will assume their Council roles after next week's Annual General Meeting.
Thanks to Daniel Gautron and Douglas Scott McMorran for running. Having an election only strengthens our Association by bringing diverse views and perspectives. Thanks also to Victoria and Ario for volunteering to act as scrutineers.
MGCS/AOLS Joint Webinar
March 16, 2022
At noon on March 16, the AOLS will be hosting a webinar with Ken Wilkinson, Examiner of Surveys at Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, and Paul Wyman, Manager of the Survey Review Department.
Ken will update us on changes being made by the Ministry affecting surveyors, including changes to plan corrections and how to deal with plan submission forms (stickers).
Paul will update us on changes at the AOLS office in receiving plans from land registry offices and the use of virtual stickers.
Request for Letters of Support: Skills for Success Program
Professional Surveyors Canada (PSC) is seeking grant funding from the Skills for Success Program (SFSP) through the Government of Canada. This is a very similar application to the Sectoral Initiative Program (SIP) grant application filed by PSC last year, which was ultimately unsuccessful.
The scope of our program is to engage the legal surveying industry, academia, and those seeking a career in our industry for the purpose of building accessible and effective educational infrastructure for legal survey technicians and technologists. An article by Hal Janes on the SIP program scope can be found in a past issue of P.Surv Magazine: psc-gpc.ca/blog/3d-flip-book/p-surv-magazine.
To pursue this new grant opportunity, we ask for a letter of support from your organization. There is no financial commitment required, but letters of support from industry partners is a specific requirement for this application.
The deadline for applications is March 7, 2022. To this end, we ask that your letter of support be provided by March 1, 2022, to allow for inclusion in our application. We are cognizant that this is a tight timeline to ask for your assistance, so we thank you in advance.
Click here for a draft letter that can be used to express your support. We will attach these to our application.
Dig Safe Workshops with Your Damage Prevention Partners
March 2022
The Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance is bringing together industry experts in March for a series of free Dig Safe Workshops to protect underground infrastructure.
These half-hour sessions will take place from 8 a.m. to noon, on March 8, 10, 15, 17, 29, and 31. To meet individual schedules and needs, the sessions allow attendees to bounce in and out, to stay for as long as needed, or to attend on different days.
Click here for workshop schedules, presenters, and session topics.
GeoIgnite 2022, Canada’s National Geospatial Conference, is less than one week away
March 1–3, 2022
We have extended our workshop week. The free livestream workshop week will now run from March 4 to March 14.
The GeoIgnite training opportunities and free workshops include:
International Hydrographer Certification Scheme: Presentation hosted by The Association of Canada Lands Surveyors (ACLS)
Training: Best Practices for GIS Project Planning and Management
Workshop: Monitoring Invasive Plant Species Using Planetscope 8-Band Data presented by Planet
Training: Introduction to QGIS
Training: Remote Sensing Applications in QGIS
Maintaining Quality Places Data: Building a Digital Source of Truth for the Physical World
Workshop on Maxar’s WeatherDesk
The Integrated Cadastral Information Society: A Collaborative Model for Sharing Geospatial Data: Presentation hosted by the ICI Society
Workshop presented by SparkGeo
Training: Introduction to Spatial Data & Using R as a GIS
We look forward to you joining us for GeoIgnite and our very diverse and engaging workshop week.
AGM 2022 Sponsors
We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support. We could not be doing this AGM without you. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!
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