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• Happy New Year! Exciting things for 2026!
• Forestry is a solution: Voice your support for jobs & communities
• Interior Logging member spotlight
• Are you ready for the show in April?
• Joint statement issued with other
• Interior Logging board of directors spotlight
• Connection to care mental health support program launches
• Hand & arm vibration syndrome by Dr. Delia Roberts
• Wrest Program update
• BCFC anatomy of a tip-over workshop

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• Wrapping Up the Year with Presence
• Interior Logging board of directors spotlight
• Forestry works for British Columbia’s sustainability
• Joint statement issued with other agencies
• Congratulations to our scholarship winners!
• Interior Logging member spotlight
• A difficult year: six lives lost in forestry – A call to re-commit to safety
• Another challenging wildfire year
• Employer incident investigations and reporting

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• Another Successful Show!
• EMPOWERING CONTRACTORS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE JUNE 2025 TIMBER HARVESTING EQUIPMENT COST MODEL WEBINAR
• ARE YOU WILDFIRE READY?
• EXTREME HEAT AND WORKERS’ SAFETY
• 63% OF BC’S FORESTS WILL NOT BE LOGGED
• WORKING TOGETHER FOR AN INCLUSIVEFOREST SECTOR: MEET FORESTRY TOGETHER

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• 67 Years of Partnership and “A Forest of Possibilities”
• ABOUT OUR LUNCHEON SPEAKER, HONORABLE RAVI PARMAR
• OUR RETURNING DINNER AND DANCE EVENT WITH AMAZING MUSIC
• SHOW VEN-DORS/ ATTENDEES
• CHAIRSON’S NOTE FOR THE SHOW
• SPRING BEAR SAFETY
• ILA SILENT AUCTION GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
• 2025 SHOW CO-SPONSORS
• ILA SHOE AGENDA
• 2025 INTERIOR SAFETY CONFERENCE (ISC) RETURNS TO KAMLOOPS MAY 15T

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• Happy New Year from the Interior Logging Association
• OPINION – EDITORIAL
• Resources to Help You in 2025
• Province Launches BC Timber Sales Review
• The ILA in the Community
• Looking Ahead to the 2025 Wildfire Season
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Reminder About the Wrest Grant Program

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• Message from the Interior Logging Association Board of Directors
• Remember! The Wildfire Reduction Equipment Support Trust (WREST) grant is available
• Updates to first aid regulations
• Congratulations to our scholarship winners!
• An update on FEP-Forest Equipment Program
• Wet roads, foggy conditions and kids in the classroom
• Provincial elections platforms show support for growth of BC’s community forest
• Jordan ilnicki named one of the CFI 2024 top 20 under 40
• WorkSafe BC’s videos on cable yarding
• Loggers – the unsung heros of wildfire response

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• Thank you for another fantastic AGM and Convention!
• The Wildfire Reduction Equipment Support Trust (WREST) grant is now available
• Congratulations Nancy Hesketh on 25 amazing years with the ILA
• Show Attendee List
• Take Time to Check In
• We are happy “Fore” a member of our forestry family
• 1st Annual Big Truck Show ‘N’ Shine & Log Loader Winners!
• Mental Health for Forestry Workers
• 2024 Interior Safety Conference – Safety At Work: Inside & Out
• Show Co-Sponsor Listing
• New First Aid Related Resources

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• 66 Amazing Years of partnership!
• About Our Luncheon Speaker Honorable Andrew Mercier
• Our Returning Dinner & Dance Event With Amazing Music
• Show Attendees Confirmed
• Chairpersons Note for the Show
• Are You at Risk for Hearing Loss?
• Ready to See Some Skills? Come See the Log Loader Competition!
• BCFSC New Video Release
• BC Forest Safety Council Celebrating 20 Years!
• ILA Silent Auction
• Show Co-Sponsors
• Ila Show Agenda & Forms
• 1st Annual Big Truck Show n’ Shine
• Interior Safety Conference
• Show Accomodations

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• Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024!
• TWO EXCITING NEW PARTNERSHIPS FOR ILA MEMBERS
• IT’S 2024- UPDATES IN PAYROLL AND BENEFITS!
• THE ILA BOARD AT WORK ~MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRIVING CHANGE
• WORKSAFEBC CONSULTATION ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE OHSR – PART 16
• MEMBERSHIP RELATIONS LEADING TO NEW PROJECTS
• SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

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• The ILA Final Quarter of 2023 Update
• CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2023 SCHOLARSHIP ILA WINNERS
• TASK FORCE INPUT REQUEST
• FOREST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM AND PROJECT PROCUREMENT
• 2023 WILDFIRE SEASON UPDATE
• WET ROADS, FOGGY CONDITIONS AND KIDS IN THE CLASSROOM

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• 65th AGM and Convention was a huge success! Thank you everyone!
• AMENDMENTS TO THE WILDFIRE REGULATION 2023
• ILA RECEIVES MONEY FROM THE FIR FUNDING THROUGH ETSI-BC
• PREVENTING HEAT STRESS DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS
• A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SHOW CO-SPONSORS
• THE IMPORTANCE OF FORESTRY IN NAKUSP

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• 65 AMAZING YEARS AND COUNT- ING……THE SHOW IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!

• ABOUT OUR LUNCHEON SPEAKER, HONOURABLE BRUCE RALSTON

• OUR RETURNING DINNER AND DANCE EVENT WITH AMAZING MUSIC

• CHAIRPERSON’S NOTE FOR THE SHOW
• READY TO SEE SOME SKILLS? COME SEE THE LOG LOADER COMPETITION!
• ILA SILENT 8 AUCTION GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

• A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SHOW CO-SPONSORS

• EVENT DATES AND AGENDA
• REGISTRATION FORMS FOR EXHIBITORS AND TICKETS
• THE INTERIOR 14 SAFETY CON- FERENCE (ISC) RETURNS TO KAMLOOPS

• EVENT LOCATIONS, HOTELS AND OTHER INFORMATI0N

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• HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE ILA
• IS YOUR SAFETY PROGRAM RUNNING ON ALL CYLINDERS?
• WRAPPING 5 UP THE LATEST CONTRACT WITH THE INTERIOR LOGGING ASSOCIATION
• A FINAL FAREWELL FROM THE CANADIAN WOMEN IN TIMBER
• CAN GROUP 9 BENEFITS HELP YOU RETAIN EMPLOYES AND REDUCE ABSENTEEISM?
• RESOURCES FOR OUR MEMBERS
• CELEBRATING 65 YEARS WITH THE AGM AND CONVENTION THIS YEAR!

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