Top news this week includes LiUNA urging the Ontario government to adopt a wearable COVID-19 tracing app technology for a safer workplace. Also Indigenous communities across Canada show support for a Six Nations group occupying a Caledonia construction site over a land dispute. On Friday, the Ontario Superior Court upheld an injunction banning protesters, who refer to themselves as “land defenders”.

Links to these stories and more in this week’s edition. 

Thanks for reading and have a safe week.

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Arnie Gess, Publisher and President Construction Links Network

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