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Ontario government proposes women’s-only washrooms on construction sites

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 18th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

The 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[...]

Ontario municipalities feel impacts of housing law, worry over little audit progress

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 14th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO — 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[...]

Ontario to require technological education course for high school graduation

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 11th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

MISSISSAUGA, 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[...]

Ontario launches Grade 11 program to work toward skilled trade apprenticeship

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 9th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

PICKERING, 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[...]

Hazel McCallion, former longtime mayor of Mississauga, Ont., dies at 101

By:Building .caPosted: Jan 31st, 2023In: ConstructionNews

MISSISSAUGA, 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[...]

Greenbelt is Ontario’s jurisdiction, Ford says after federal minister raises concerns

By:Building .caPosted: Jan 29th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

Steven 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[...]

Has Ontario’s housing ‘plan’ been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand?

By:Building .caPosted: Jan 28th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

Ontario 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[...]

CAF-FCA completes Women in the Skilled Trades program pilot

By:Building .caPosted: Jan 16th, 2023In: ConstructionNews

The 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[...]

Toronto city council approves plan to allow for greater density in residential areas

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 21st, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Toronto 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[...]

Toronto’s housing plan could take years to improve affordability for renters: experts

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Toronto’s recently approved housing plan is a good step forward but it could take years before the increase in supply makes renting more affordable in the city, urban planners and experts say. Toronto city council[...]