Tag Archives: Construction

OTTAWA - Only people, not corporations, benefit from the charter protection against cruel or unusual punishment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The unanimous decision came Thursday in a case i...

OTTAWA - Canada coped with nearly four years of Donald Trump rewriting or shredding the international trade rule book. But Canadian hope of a rosy return to rules-based bonhomie with its top trading p...

The City of Saskatoon is celebrating the end of another summer construction season highlighted by big projects. Wrapping up the two-year Sid Buckwold Bridge rehabilitation project two months early was...

A Saskatchewan home building company is predicting a reprieve from high wood prices by Christmas after COVID-19 caused a construction wood shortage across the country. "It's quite high, but we expect ...

VANCOUVER - A federal government fund providing financing for affordable housing projects needs to be rebuilt because it doesn't do enough to help provinces outside of Ontario, advocates say.  Th...

VANCOUVER - Arguments over the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a natural gas pipeline in B.C. resumed in court on Friday with lawyers for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs telli...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...

EDMONTON - Some Edmontonians who got a peek inside the city's new downtown library say it's what's inside that matters. The Stanley A. Milner Library opened its doors to the public Thursday, four year...

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Vancouver Airport Authority is pulling the plug on some major infrastructure projects because it says the ongoing decline in air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic means ...

A major Saskatoon construction project has come to a close. On Sunday, the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge reopened to normal capacity. The work being done there lasted two years and costed $20 million. D...