News Articles
News articles feature Commissionaires and our staff as they appeared in local or national newspapers or websites.
Tougher criminal security check draws mixed reviews
Eric Lewis, Times & Transcript
31 October 2011
Expanded criminal background checks for those working or volunteering with seniors, youth and other groups are being praised for providing an extra level of security in Metro Moncton.
But the new system introduced nationally in 2010 is also being criticized for taking too long and potentially putting peoples livelihoods at risk.
According to federal rules, people applying for jobs or volunteer positions where they would be close to children, seniors or others in the vulnerable sector must submit to a fingerprint scan if their name or date of birth are similar to those of convicted sex offenders.
Regina Man Returns from Afghanistan after Training Troops
Angela Hall, Leader-Post
7 July 2011
A pile of rocks near a road or a bag tied to a tree might seem innocuous, but Norm Marner knows that in Afghanistan these could be signs of hidden danger.
Marner, a warrant officer in the army reserve’s 10th Field Regiment in Regina, spent nearly seven months helping to train coalition troops on how to spot and avoid insurgents’ improvised explosive devices or IEDs — the makeshift bombs that have accounted for most of Canada’s combat deaths.
New Security Legislation to Affect Manitoban Businesses
Marketplace Magazine
June 2011
The Province of Manitoba’s new Private Investigator and Security Guard legislation change may impact your organizations in-house and contracted security team.
Sask. Employers Saluted for Helping Reservists
Will Chabun, Leader-Post
1 June 2011
The choice presented to Trent Belisle was blunt: quit the army reserve or quit his civilian job.
His employer in Moose Jaw — a firm no longer in business there — didn’t want to give him any time off for training.
So he made his choice: he stayed in the army.
Office Building Market on Fire
Low supply, big demand driving up city prices
Murray McNeill, Winnipeg Free Press
24 May 2011
A combination of tight supply and strong demand are driving up selling prices for some suburban Winnipeg office buildings to record highs, industry officials say.
Two shining examples of this trend are the Commissionaires Manitoba building at 50 Stafford St. and the Rischuk Park Realty Ltd. building at 1365 Grant Ave., both of which recently sold for more than $200 a square foot. And in the case of the Rischuk building, it was $260.
Warrant Officer Norm Marner Sends a Greeting to a Canadian Awards Dinner
DVIDS
15 May 2011
Commissionaire Norm Marner, currently in Afghanistan, sends his greetings via video to a Canadian Forces Liaison Council (CFLC) event in Ottawa.