by Ken Hendricks, ARA senior industry advisor A recent government announcement focuses on an issue with a long and turbulent history. In the post-war economic boom of the 1950s, mechanics came from all over to work on the growing number of new cars in British Columbia. Many of these mechanics came from the prairie provinces, […]
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by Iva Kestrankova Ed Tretwold retires after 51 years of operating Coast Import Auto Supply. In November 1990, the ARA’s periodical, Automotive Retailer, published a profile with the title A Chairman’s Work Is Never Done, about thenchairman of the ARA’s British Columbia Auto Recyclers division, Ed Tretwold. Fast forward 21 years and Ed has sold
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ICBC has announced that fees for the sanitization of vehicles will no longer be paid effective September 7, in line with step 4 of BC’s Four Step Restart. Step 4 sees us moving from a COVID-19 Safety Plan to a Communicable Disease Plan, this means: The COVID-19-specific controls of the COVID-19 Safety Plan will no
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