{"id":721562,"date":"2026-06-07T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721562\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:42:10","slug":"cna-students-shine-at-national-skills-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721562\/","title":{"rendered":"CNA Students Shine at National Skills Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/skills-canada.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"CNA Students Shine at National Skills Competition\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back row, from left: Anthony Pascu, Matthew Blagdon, Claire Cooper; front row, from left: Devin Owens, Nathan Cooney.<br \/>\n(Submitted photo)<\/p>\n<p>Students from the College of the North Atlantic recently made the podium at the Skills Canada National Competition in Toronto, earning a total of five medals.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 participants from across the country came together to compete in more than 40 skilled trades and technology fields.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Cooper took top honours in hairstyling, and second-time winner Devin Owens won gold in HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning).<\/p>\n<p>Both Anthony Pascu and Matthew Blagdon took home silver \u2013 one in architecture and the other in autobody repair.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Cooney captured bronze in cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>CNA says the results \u201ccement the college\u2019s reputation as one of Canada\u2019s premier institutions for skilled trades and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Back row, from left: Anthony Pascu, Matthew Blagdon, Claire Cooper; front row, from left: Devin Owens, Nathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-721562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}