News & Updates

Based in part on the successful initiatives of the Pacific Chapter Young Professionals, SWANA International will be holding a one hour focus group session the end of June in the Metro Vancouver area as it works on development of a new 5 year Strategic Management Plan addressing the change of guard to a younger demographic member and customer.  If you are interested in participating please send an email to info@swanabc.org.  You don’t need to be a SWANA member - but you have to fall within the “Young Professional” description.

We've just uploaded a number of photos from the 7th Canadian Waste Resource  Symposium to the symposium site.  Click here to have a look!

The 7th Canadian Waste Resource Symposium was 5 days of 3 rings of activity. Every aspect of the week; from Training, to Mini Learning Sessions, to Tours, to the Trade Show Component, to the Tech Program, to the Networking, to the YP Event, to the Workshops, and to the MV Britannia Scholar“ship” Gala got great reviews. The flags of all the Canadian chapters were displayed proudly, and networking took place with all folks visiting from sea to sea. Our peak day saw over 240 delegates on the site, and almost 300 were registered over the course of the week. While the word on the street about the 7CDN was stellar, we want to get some serious feedback from the jungle drums of a Survey Monkey being sent to all delegates, exhibitors and sponsors. We had some good photographers working the crowd and a set of pictures culled from almost 600…