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      <title>Counterweight | Heat safety, Toronto fatality, Savaria's EU move</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:14:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This issue arrives at a busy moment for the industry on both sides of the border. In Canada, Ontario's TSSA has levied its first-ever administrative penalties under its elevating devices program, a fatal escalator fall in]]></description>
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      <title>Fatal escalator fall in Toronto; US mechanic shortage deepens</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This issue covers a fatal escalator fall at a Toronto mall that has prompted questions about jurisdictional responsibility, a deepening shortage of qualified elevator and escalator mechanics across the United States, and a pair of Canadian]]></description>
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      <title>One trade, three rulebooks: how mechanic recertification differs across BC, Ontario &amp; the U.S.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A certified mechanic in Vancouver, Toronto and Boston does broadly the same work — but the paperwork that keeps them licensed looks almost nothing alike. Here’s how staying certified compares across the three.]]></description>
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      <title>Counterweight: Mechanic recertification, three ways — plus Schindler’s robots, MBTA PSAs &amp; Otis India</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This issue leads with an original Counterweight breakdown: how elevator mechanic recertification actually differs across British Columbia, Ontario and the United States — and why your ticket may not cross the border with you. Then: Schindler&]]></description>
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      <title>IUEC Local 82's fight for a first contract at Richmond Elevator</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[After fifty years outside the union, Richmond Elevator — BC's largest independent — became IUEC Local 82's newest bargaining unit in 2024. Twenty months on, still no first contract, and the dispute has drawn in both the BC Labour Relations Board and the…]]></description>
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      <title>Issue #1 - Kone-TKE merger, mechanic wages &amp; the new A17.1 code</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:40:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first issue of Counterweight. We've cast a slightly wider net this time to capture the biggest stories of recent weeks — going forward, each issue arrives every two weeks.]]></description>
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