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December 10, 2020

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From CGS President Mario Ruel

The past two years have been amazing, busy but fun and rewarding. For those who know my railway background it seems like, in 2019, we started our train at full speed on solid tracks and then we traversed two major “transition switches” (see below), while hitting some very rough conditions (Covid-19). All this happened without even slowing down as we managed to stay firmly on tracks.

I believe we achieved significant progress on our initial objectives, while responsibly managing the CGS business and with constant respect for our pillars founded on encouraging young members, welcoming more women in geotechnique and increasing services to practitioners and francophones. Despite some attrition from the extraordinarily challenging times of the current pandemic situation, our membership remained strong and the CGS continues to provide an increasing level of services to its members.

In addition to running all the regular activities and a series of developments, we also succeeded in conducting our train smoothly through major “transition switches” in 2020:

1. Canadian Geotechnique; replacing Geotechnical News as our CGS member magazine by new publisher Karma-Link with Lisa Reny as the Managing Editor, in collaboration with Nicholas Beier (Editor of CGS News) and Doug VanDine (Features Editor)

2. New National Office management contract with Karma-Link replacing GGMI

I am glad and proud we were able to bring a solid contribution to our CGS during our two-year term, which is ending this December. I am so very impressed to see how much time and effort the Executive Committee members have invested with passion to deal with their responsibilities. It has been a lot of work for our great team and I want to express my sincere thanks to our VP’s Rob Kenyon, Judith Bouchard, Kent Bannister as well our Representatives Vincent Castonguay, Billy Singh, and Dave Gauthier. It has been a fun ride and also very gratifying for us to have had the honor to serve our Society. I encourage you to get involved with the CGS as I assure you that you will be proud and get more out than you put in!

Ian Moore will take over the affairs of the CGS as President of the Society with a solid team at the end of this year. The future of the CGS will be in good hands under his leadership.

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December 10, 2020

From CGS President Mario Ruel