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Your top DCN headlines: Sept. 2 to 6
Your top DCN headlines: Sept. 2 to 6
Your top DCN headlines this week cover news Kitchener, Ont. is building the greenest rec facility in Canada; Toronto’s mayor is defending a railpath project that has a massive price tag; we delve into Durham’s 30-kilometre hydro corridor; and Gardiner Exp...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Durable Blockhouse Point Lighthouse in PEI designated for protection
ROCKY POINT, PEI - The federal government has announced the designation of Block...
Government , Projects
鶹ýion gets underway on three Ontario Line stations
TORONTO - Ground has been broken on three future Ontario Line stations: King-Bat...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Caldwell FN to upgrade dyke
LEAMINGTON, ONT. - Caldwell First Nation of southwestern Ontario will upgrade th...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
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Your top DCN headlines: Sept. 2 to 6
Your top DCN headlines this week cover news Kitchener, Ont. is building the gree...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Durable Blockhouse Point Lighthouse in PEI designated for protection
ROCKY POINT, PEI - The federal government has announced the designation of Block...
Government , Projects
鶹ýion gets underway on three Ontario Line stations
TORONTO - Ground has been broken on three future Ontario Line stations: King-Bat...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Caldwell FN to upgrade dyke
LEAMINGTON, ONT. - Caldwell First Nation of southwestern Ontario will upgrade th...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Legal Notes: Crown loses “employer” appeal in landmark Sudbury case
The Superior Court of Ontario issued a ruling on August 23 that is certain to br...
Government
London welcomes $23M under Water Systems Fund
LONDON, ONT. - The Ontario government has announced it is allocating $23 million...
Government , Infrastructure
Windsor construction companies convicted in wall collapse mishap
WINDSOR, ONT. - Two Windsor, Ont.-based construction companies have been fined a...
Government , OH&S
NDP pulling out of supply and confidence deal with Liberals
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has ripped up the supply and confidence deal w...
Government
The Grenfell fire inquiry has ended with a damning report. So now what?
LONDON - Now that an independent inquiry has completed its investigation into Br...
Government , OH&S
Procurement Perspectives: How best to underpin quality assurance?
The basic objective of any supplier or contractor assessment is to provide an un...
Government
Ottawa, Quebec tout ‘new business model’ to fast-track affordable housing
OTTAWA - The governments of Canada, Quebec and the City of Montreal are creditin...
Government , Infrastructure
Canada ‘walking the talk’ to sustainable infrastructure future: KPMG
Canada is walking the talk when it comes to embracing sustainable technology and...
Government , Infrastructure
Canadian construction spared in TFW crackdown
Canada’s construction sector was spared as the federal Liberal government announ...
Government , Labour
Legal Notes: About that insurance exclusion
A ruling rendered in June 2023 by the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, upholdin...
Government
Climate and 鶹ýion: Natural gas bans hit a legal shut-off valve
Ambitions to ban the new installations of natural gas appliances and mechanical...
Government , US News
London transportation funding puts the focus on pedestrians and cyclists
The City of London Ontario will be undertaking some major transportation initiat...
Government , Infrastructure
Procurement Perspectives: Techniques for closing out successful major projects
How can a deal be concluded in a successful and profitable manner? This is the...
Government
GIP Paving awarded Oshawa overpass job
OSHAWA, ONT. - The Ontario government has announced that GIP Paving Inc. has bee...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Quebec’s new housing strategy promotes volumetric modular solutions
Quebec Housing Minister France-Élaine Duranceau has signalled that when it comes...
Government
Shipyard sector receives funding to train and upskill workers
ST. CATHARINES, ONT. — Ontario Shipyards Inc. is receiving $10 million from the...
Government , Labour
Labour board orders rail workers back on the job, as Teamsters vow to appeal
OTTAWA - The federal labour board has ordered thousands of rail employees back t...
Government , Labour
Avison Young outlines consequences of rail strike
TORONTO - Real estate adviser Avison Young has issued a statement warning about...
Government , Labour
Ontario accepting applications for municipal core asset repairs, upgrades
OTTAWA — The Ontario government is now accepting applications for funding to bui...
Government , Infrastructure
Feds launch consultations on industrial homebuilding strategy
Long-time housing scholar Carolyn Whitzman says she’s optimistic a new round of...
Government , Projects
‘Impacts cannot be understated’: Ottawa intervenes to get railways moving again
Ottawa ordered up binding arbitration Thursday to get freight trains moving agai...
Government , Labour
Ontario sets new planning rules intended to boost homebuilding
TORONTO — Ontario's housing minister announced a new set of planning rules, whic...
Government
P.E.I. receives funding for infrastructure priorities
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The federal government has transferred $9 million to Pri...
Government , Infrastructure
Legal Notes: The critical matter of timely and proper notice of claims
Courts across the country are very strict when it comes to giving a notice of cl...
Government
Legault announces six-month freeze on some temporary foreign workers in Montreal
MONTREAL — Quebec Premier François Legault is announcing a six-month freeze on c...
Government , Labour
Province accepting applications for $200-million Community Sport and Recreation Fund
OTTAWA — Applications are now open for the new Community Sport and Recreation In...
Government
Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Canada’s ‘can do’ spirit stifled by bad policies
It sounds so simple. Canada’s construction industry could build more for less....
Associations , Government , Labour
New portal to support project investments: Ford
Ontario Premier Doug Ford told stakeholders from Ontario’s municipal sector rece...
Government
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Canadian construction spared in TFW crackdown
Canada’s construction sector was spared as the federal Liberal government announ...
Government , Labour
Climate and 鶹ýion: Natural gas bans hit a legal shut-off valve
Ambitions to ban the new installations of natural gas appliances and mechanical...
Government , US News
$1.1 billion NextGen mill project making history in Saint John, N.B.
Pre-planning engineering work has started for construction of a new recovery boi...
Projects
Stakeholders spar: What’s to blame for declining homebuilding productivity?
Two recently published articles on homebuilding productivity in Canada, one buil...
Labour
$3.6B South Niagara Hospital celebrates one-year construction milestone
It’s been just over a year since ground was broken on the massive South Niagara...
Projects
Muskoka townhouse development aims to be a ‘Nordic zen’
A new waterfront townhouse development in Muskoka, Ont. is looking to bring peop...
Infrastructure
Canada ‘walking the talk’ to sustainable infrastructure future: KPMG
Canada is walking the talk when it comes to embracing sustainable technology and...
Government , Infrastructure
Trades, supporters pledge to march on Labour Day
TORONTO - Ontario’s workers and their supporters are celebrating Labour Day acro...