Tag Archives: Construction

VANCOUVER - The use of mass timber in British Columbia is moving up and expanding to schools, libraries and other construction. The province says it's making building-code changes allowing for the use...

TORONTO - Ontario proposed Wednesday to allow municipalities to enact "use it or lose it" policies on developers, speed up the creation of student housing, and streamline approvals for standardized ho...

TORONTO - Ontario is considering counting student residences toward its target of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years, a move opposition parties criticized as a new attempt to inflate the numbers a...

Auditor general Karen Hogan says the government's $4.6-billion program to bolster transportation infrastructure across the country suffers from poor results tracking, but the fund is well-crafted over...

SaskEnergy is offering incentives on the construction of new, energy-efficient homes. On Friday, the Crown corporation announced its Homes Beyond Code Program. The program includes new rebate will mak...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government announced Monday a $258-million plan for a new high-speed ferry service that will link Halifax with Bedford, a rapidly growing suburb about 10 kilometres northwest...

VANCOUVER - When Chris Vilness heard about the crane accident that killed a construction worker in Vancouver last week, he was angry, and he didn't have to imagine what the woman's family was going th...

OTTAWA - Mayors are community builders, not gatekeepers, Canada's municipal governments said Monday as their spokesman pushed back against language Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre often uses to a...

MEMBERTOU, NOVA SCOTIA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Nova Scotia on Thursday to announce $13.3 million in funding to fast-track construction of 367 housing units over the next three yea...

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday $175 million in funding to fast-track more than 5,200 new housing units in Edmonton over the next three years. "We're changing the way hous...