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B.C. minister of transportation and transit Mike Farnworth listens while standing in a tunnel at the future Great Northern Way-Emily Carr station during a tour of construction taking place for the Broadway Subway Project, in[...]

2025 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence, winner in the Best Mid – to High – Rise Building (Completed) category. Image credit: TESORO, Concert Properties Ltd. The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) has announced the[...]

Photo by Mikael Blomkvist from Pexels The Ontario government will be introducing a series of proposed changes to protect workers, including cutting red tape to accelerate the construction of Skills Development Fund (SDF) training centres.[...]

A collapse is seen on a construction site in Blainville, Que., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi Police have opened a criminal negligence investigation into the fatal collapse of retaining walls on[...]

Labour Minister David Piccini attends Question Period at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston Ontario is planning to require certain construction sites to have automatic external defibrillators. Labour[...]

Doug Ford’s re-election handed him a third term as Ontario’s Premier, built in part on his Build Ontario agenda—more housing, highways, and infrastructure. It’s an ambitious promise to transform the province into an economic powerhouse.[...]

A recent economic report by the Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) revealed that construction employment contracted -0.9 per cent year-over-year in April, in stark contrast to the 3.8 per cent year-over-year increase in the labour force. The[...]