Visit our 45 skill areas and find highlight videos, photos, and more! Also, check out various demonstrations and speak with industry professionals within each skill area.

Engage with industry and education partners from across Canada. Learn about the various career opportunities within the skilled trades and technologies.

Visit with the Skills Canada organization in your province or territory to see what great programs they have to offer!

This stage will contain tips and demonstrations, various live sessions, and our closing ceremonies. See our main stage agenda for a detailed schedule.

This stage will contain numerous fun and informative sessions, as well as our Trading Trades challenges! See our Essential Skills agenda for a detailed schedule.

Check out how to win awesome prizes!

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The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, Disability and Inclusion, welcomes you to the Skills Canada Virtual National Competition.

Tune in for tips from TV Personality, Sherry Holmes!

Plumbing tips for around the house with UA Canada!

Join InkSmith for tips on 3D Printing and PPE!

Tips on becoming an RV technician from RV Careers!

Camping tips from RV Careers!

Chocolatier tips from Barry Callebaut! (Recorded in French)

Hairstyling tips with L'Oréal! (Recorded in French)

Tips on properly maintaining heavy equipment from Volvo Construction Equipment!

Join Volkswagen Group Canada for tips on vehicle maintenance!

Healthy skin tips with Dermalogica!

The paddles from the coast of British Columbia are as diverse as the nations and communities that make up the province. This workshop builds on the use of other tools; such as hand planers and draw knives for creating a paddle from red or yellow cedar.

Essential for carving, the adzes came in different shapes and sizes depending on the work being done. The elbow adze is one of the most common on the Northwest Coast; this workshop is an introduction to making a traditional elbow adze from a skidoo spring. The workshop will have the participant operating various power tools, files and torches, as well as caring for and sharpening your adze after they are made.

This demonstration is an introduction to making the traditional bent and straight knives of the Northwest Coast. They are essential tools for carving Northwest Coast Art and in many ways it is difficult to carve these shapes without them. Knife handles, in the past, were made from different kind of materials like bone, ivory, and wood. Like many projects they were carved intricately with motifs or left plain. In this workshop the handles are made from red cedar and lashed with seine twine.
During this demonstration, the student will learn the necessary skills fundamentals of making the traditional knives. Along with, proper use of power tools, files and torches and the importance of caring for and sharpening their tools.

In this video, Kaska/Tlingit and Yukon Wolf Clan artist Dean Heron introduces Northwest Coast graphic design. Dean demonstrates how the combination of traditional Northwest Coast design in art and contemporary technology can be used.
Dean Heron shares insight into the elements that are incorporated within two raven designs. Dean highlights the use and incorporation of ovoids and u-forms within them.

Rebecca Doxtator of Oneida Nation and owner of OTSÍ:TSI’ Designs teaches us beautiful traditional beadwork with this easy to follow-along tutorial.

Will Goodon, Minister of House and Property Management for the Manitoba Metis First Nation, demonstrates how to craft and decorate the Slingshot. Mr. Goodon explains how to source the best wood nature has to offer to make the perfect Slingshot while highlighting the significance of the Slingshot for the Metis people with the exquisite Metis hash design that he hand-paints on his Slingshots.

This wonderful video showcases the importance of preserving traditional Inuit skills. ISARUIT, which means ‘wings’ in Inuktitut, is a collective of Inuit women living in the Ottawa area who get together to learn, teach and preserve traditional Inuit skills such as sewing, skin preparation, cooking and much more. ISARUIT strives to inspire lifelong creativity, and learning as a community by sharing Inuit traditions, knowledge and language through arts. If you would like to get involved or learn more, visit www.Isaruit.ca.

“She is Skilled” Presented by UA Canada
Tune in for a short presentation from a few amazing tradeswomen across the country who share their advice, their journeys and what life is like as a woman in the piping industry!

Mandy Rennehan (a.k.a. Bear), the CEO™ of Freshco (not the grocery store!), is known for her ability to seamlessly navigate between the business and skilled trade and technology worlds, and to respectfully 'tell it like it is'. Mandy is a sought-after speaker, multiple award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, and trade industry ambassador.
Freshco and Mandy have received countless business awards including:
Canada’s Most Admired CEO.
Atlantic Business Magazine's Top CEO for the Atlantic Provinces.
Toronto Region Board of Trade Business Leader of the Year, Top 25 Women of Influence.
The RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur “Momentum” Award.
Growth 500 Excellence in Innovation
(WXN’s) Top 100 Most Powerful Women – Hall of Fame, CGLCC LGBT Business of the Year
Atlantic Business Magazine’s Top 50 CEOs.

Mandy’s vision goes well beyond building successful businesses. She is redefining the collar, blue™ to help solve the massive skilled trade shortage in North America. It is a profound economic and social issue that affects everyone. Consumers are paying more and waiting longer for services, companies aren’t able to scale, and important infrastructure projects, like roads, transit and hospitals are being delayed. Mandy is challenging the misconception that white-collar jobs are “better” or “more desirable” than blue-collar ones. Society needs both collars, and if we do not change this, the crippling effects of the skilled labour shortage will only get worse.
Bear is also a lead advisor to the federal Governments national campaign encouraging apprenticeships and promoting the skilled trades as a career.
Mandy defies labels. The description she often gets is “refreshing.” Her (respectfully) uncensored honesty is matched by her quick wit, East Coast humour, and big heart. It is impossible to remain unchanged after coming into contact with this authentic, self-taught and self-made powerhouse.

For more than a decade, the Weston Family Scholarship in the Skilled Trades has provided support for individuals to enter and build a fulfilling career in the trades. Through a partnership with five Canadian colleges, the Weston Family Foundation has provided $7 million in funding and demonstrated a 37% increase in average completion rates for participants. As the funding program winds down, the Foundation and these colleges developed a toolkit of successful practices for recruiting, retaining and securing employment for Canadians interested in a career in the trades. Jeremy Braithwaite, Professor of Mechatronics, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering Technician Programs at Loyalist College, will share the lessons learnt from this initiative to encourage other colleges and funders to embark on similar support programs for skilled trades students in Canada.

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Tune in for this exciting announcement!

Tune in for live tips from Seb and Kate on POWER TOOLS. Take part in the live Q&A!

Come join in the celebration from coast to coast to coast. Congratulations to all the Skills Canada Virtual National Competition competitors! Head to the Media Wall at 7:00EDT to find out who won the Trip to Vancouver, Nintendo Switch, GoPro, and School Prize Pack!