Slow out of the gate EDITORIAL GLASS CANADA February 2016 Volume 28 • Number 1 Annex Business Media P.O. Box 530, Simcoe, Ontario N3Y 4N5 EDITOR | Patrick FLANNERY pflannery@annexweb.com 226.931.0545 SALES MANAGER | Danielle LABRIE dlabrie@annexweb.com 519.429.5187 ACCOUNT COORDINATOR | Stephanie DeFIELDS sdefields@annexweb.com 519.429.5196 | 888.599.2228 ext. 257 MEDIA DESIGNER | Emily SUN Publication Mail Agreement #40065710 Printed in Canada ISSN 0843-7041 CIRCULATION email: asingh@annexbizmedia.com Tel: 416-510-5189 Fax: 416-510-5170 Mail: 80 Valleybrook Drive, Toronto, ON M3B 2S9 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada -1 Year $35.50 (Plus GST/HST/QST) U.S.A. -1 Year $62.00 (in US dollars) Foreign – 1 Year $ 71.00 www.glasscanadamag.com/subscribe Occasionally, Glass Canada will mail information on behalf of industry-related groups whose products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive this information, please contact our circulation department in any of the four ways listed above. Annex Privacy Officer privacy@annexbizmedia.com Tel: 800-668-2374 No part of the editorial content of this publica-tion may be reprinted without the publisher’s written permission. ©2016 Annex Publishing & Printing Inc. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessar-ily those of the editor or the publisher. No liability is assumed for errors or omissions. All advertising is subject to the publisher’s approval. Suchapproval does not imply any endorsement of the products or services ad-vertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. www.glasscanadamag.com After a shaky start, there are reasons to hope in 2016 I feel like 2016 has started out on an unsettling note. Oil prices have crashed, taking our dollar, stock markets and most of Alberta with them. China’s growth is slowing, sending a chill through the American growth forecasts. No Canadian hockey team is in a playoff position; the first time this has happened this late in a season. The cheapo Blue Jays are taking Josh Donaldson to arbitration over $450,000. I dropped my new iPad. Grim tidings all around. As always, when times get tough, Glass Canada leaps into action. We are trying a number of new things this year to give you as many opportunities as possible to get the industry information you need in the format that works best for you. We held our inaugural Winter Webinar in December, with Stephane Hoff-man of Morrison Hershfield reprising his excellent Top Glass talk on thermal transmission through curtainwall assemblies. We attracted a nice audience of 42 attendees who logged in right at the start and stayed with us throughout, asking some great questions along the way. Stephane’s presentation was recorded and can be seen online by following the link on our web-site and entering some registration information (it is NEXT ISSUE free.) By the time you read this, we will have held our • Top Glass second webinar with Louis Moreau of Agnora discuss-ing large-format glass fabrication -a hot topic for sure. show issue Watch for our last webinar of this season on Feb. 24 • National featuring Michael Mesure of FLAP Canada discussing Contract the issues and technology involved in preventing bird Glaziers collisions with glass buildings. Registration for that one is free as well, thanks to the generous support of Walker Glass, a Canadian pioneer in the field of bird-friendly glazing. Safety while working at heights is an issue of particular interest to us as we send workers hundreds of feet up the sides of skyscrapers to manipulate modules and panels weighing thousands of pounds. Glass Canada will be join-ing several other construction industry publications in May of this year to host a special theme week dedicated to working-at-heights safety. Watch your Glass Canada newsletter and our Twitter and Facebook feeds for details about this awareness-raising event. Another new initiative here is NicheTV, a short online video that will be de-livered to your inbox and available on the website that includes industry news, feature interviews, project and plant tours and anything else we think you will find interesting and helpful. We promise to keep the videos short and on-topic, so don’t touch that delete button! Finally, it isn’t exactly new any more, but Top Glass returns April 20 to the International Centre in Mississauga. Once again, we’ve landed a spectacular lineup of great experts to bring you up to speed on key technical and business issues. Check out topglasscanada.com for all the details and to register for free. With all this going on, it is hard to stay pessimistic for long. Let’s put our heads down and get together as an industry to make 2016 the best year yet. • @GlassCanadaMag 4 FEBRUARY 2016 | GLASS CANADA
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