While people around the world shelter indoors from COVID-19, first responders like the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) remain mission-ready to provide emergency medical services and transportation. Armed with a strict regimen for donning and doffing personal protective equipment, STARS continues to respond to medical emergencies in rural areas across western Canada – ensuring urgent patients have access to timely, vital care.

For more than 20 years, Regional Land Representative Don Gresch has travelled up and down the Trans-Canada Highway visiting landowners and other key stakeholders along an 1,100-kilometre stretch of pipeline in northern Ontario. Whether acquiring land rights for expansion projects, permitting for pipeline maintenance activities or responding to pipeline system emergencies, managing relationships has been the key to success for Don.