Tag Archives: Construction

OTTAWA - Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the form...

Sarah Mills says construction on 11th Avenue in downtown Regina is causing serious headaches for commuters, and some drivers are even going the wrong way on one-way streets trying to get around it. Th...

YELLOWKNIFE - Canada's western premiers say they've agreed to identify, plan and develop new economic corridors to connect provincial resources to international markets. A joint statement issued Thurs...

BLAINVILLE - Police north of Montreal say they have opened a criminal negligence investigation into Tuesday's fatal collapse of retaining walls at a construction site. One worker died and two were inj...

TORONTO - A major piece of Toronto's climate plan appears to be in the Ontario government's crosshairs, critics warn, as the province advances a bill that could strip municipalities of their power to ...

BLAINVILLE - The underground walls of a construction site north of Montreal collapsed on Tuesday morning, killing one worker and injuring two others. Police in Blainville, Que., said they received a c...

HALIFAX - The minister responsible for Nova Scotia's rental property rules says her department won't crack down on instances of abuse involving fixed-term rent leases because it doesn't want to affect...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's public works minister says the province is getting $170 million from the federal government to assist with housing infrastructure, after a deal was signed last winter. Fred Til...

TORONTO - When a church in Toronto's west end was converted into affordable housing nearly 15 years ago, the group behind the project was already thinking ahead. Andrea Adams, the executive director o...

The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in April fell 9.8 per cent compared with the same month last year, as the national housing market has returned "to the quiet markets we've experien...