A place to belong: Rowan Tree Collective builds community through inclusion

Behind the Business | Jones Insurance. For many young adults, finishing high school is the beginning of a new chapter filled with new experiences, friendships and opportunities. But for young adults with developmental disabilities, those opportunities can sometimes be harder to find. That is the need Rowan Tree Collective set out to address. Based […]
Built from the ground up: How TBT Engineering grew by investing in people and the North

Behind the Business | Jones Insurance. The latest Jones Insurance Behind the Business was a special edition featuring “Women behind the business”. TBT Engineering, a Northern Ontario company built on technical expertise, local knowledge, and the strength of its people. From engineers and scientists to technicians, surveyors, and field teams, TBT Engineering brings together […]
From the bush to the boardroom: How ITEC grew by keeping Northern Ontario at the center.

Behind the Business | Jones Insurance. If you want to understand ITEC, don’t start with machines. Start with the people who run them, fix them, rely on them, and build entire seasons around them. Ray’s story begins the way many Northern Ontario stories do: in the bush. From the mid-’80s through the late ’90s, he worked as a forestry […]