Ford wants to build tunnel under Highway 401 across GTA, no cost estimates provided
Posted: Oct 2nd, 2024In: ConstructionNewsOntario Premier Doug Ford says he is exploring the feasibility of digging a tunnel for traffic and transit under Highway 401 across the Toronto area. Ford speaks to media at a premiers’ meeting in Halifax[...]
Read More about Ford wants to build tunnel under Highway 401 across GTA, no cost estimates providedOntario government proposes women’s-only washrooms on construction sites
Posted: Mar 18th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsThe Ontario government is proposing changes to require cleaner bathroom facilities, and women’s-only washrooms on construction sites. According to the government, there are nearly 600,000 construction workers in Ontario, but only one in 10 are[...]
Read More about Ontario government proposes women’s-only washrooms on construction sitesOntario municipalities feel impacts of housing law, worry over little audit progress
Posted: Mar 14th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO — It has been more than three months since Ontario promised to make municipalities “whole” on a loss of development charge revenue due to a new provincial law, and they say they’re concerned they’ve[...]
Read More about Ontario municipalities feel impacts of housing law, worry over little audit progressOntario to require technological education course for high school graduation
Posted: Mar 11th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsMISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario high school students will soon be required to pass a technological education course to graduate. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced Friday that the requirement will start with students who enter Grade[...]
Read More about Ontario to require technological education course for high school graduationOntario launches Grade 11 program to work toward skilled trade apprenticeship
Posted: Mar 9th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsPICKERING, Ont. – Ontario will allow students in Grade 11 to begin working toward their apprenticeships in skilled trades. Education Minister Stephen Lecce says it’s a deal that lets high school students earn credits toward[...]
Read More about Ontario launches Grade 11 program to work toward skilled trade apprenticeshipHazel McCallion, former longtime mayor of Mississauga, Ont., dies at 101
Posted: Jan 31st, 2023In: ConstructionNewsMISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Hazel McCallion, who developed a legacy of feisty advocacy during more than three decades as mayor of one of Canada’s fastest-growing cities, died Sunday morning after a brief bout with pancreatic cancer. She was[...]
Read More about Hazel McCallion, former longtime mayor of Mississauga, Ont., dies at 101Greenbelt is Ontario’s jurisdiction, Ford says after federal minister raises concerns
Posted: Jan 29th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsSteven Guilbeault at the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (photo: UN Biodiversity via Wikimedia Commons) BRAMPTON, Ont. – The Greenbelt is provincial jurisdiction, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday after the federal environment minister indicated he’d consider[...]
Read More about Greenbelt is Ontario’s jurisdiction, Ford says after federal minister raises concernsHas Ontario’s housing ‘plan’ been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand?
Posted: Jan 28th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsOntario Premier Doug Ford talks to the media on a construction site in Brampton, Ont., in May 2022. Later in the year, the Ford government justified its adoption of sweeping housing legislation and the opening[...]
Read More about Has Ontario’s housing ‘plan’ been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand?CAF-FCA completes Women in the Skilled Trades program pilot
Posted: Jan 16th, 2023In: ConstructionNewsThe Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA) has completed the new National Leadership Development Program for Women in the Skilled Trades pilot. The program was developed in partnership with the Office to Advance Women Apprentices (the[...]
Read More about CAF-FCA completes Women in the Skilled Trades program pilotToronto city council approves plan to allow for greater density in residential areas
Posted: Dec 21st, 2022In: ConstructionNewsToronto city council has approved a sweeping housing plan that will significantly transform zoning bylaws in an effort to address the affordability crisis. A majority of councillors — 23 out of 26 — voted in[...]
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