Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition

Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Excavators have been brought in to do earthworks and prepare a site in the south end of Guelph, Ont. for a long-anticipated, multi-purpose recreation centre with twin ice pads and a double gymnasium. The $115.5-million facility, known as the South End Co...
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Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate
OTTAWA - A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Can...
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Heddle Shipyards gets $107M for vessel life extension projects in St. Catharines
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Climate and Construction: Build more homes faster and build them better
The 1960s ballad suggests, “A house is not a home.” Unfortunately, the North Am...
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Climate and Construction: Build more homes faster and build them better
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Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Excavators have been brought in to do earthworks and prepare a site in the south...
Infrastructure

Heddle Shipyards gets $107M for vessel life extension projects in St. Catharines
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Fort Nelson First Nation developing geothermal energy on site of depleted gas wells
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MCAC’s Richard McKeagan Scholarship Series provides $25,000 for youth
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Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate
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Fire destroys and damages new homes in Caledon
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Indian rescuers reach 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel for 17 days, start pulling them out
UTTARKASHI, INDIA - Rescuers in India on Tuesday reached 41 construction workers...
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Suncor restarts production at Terra Nova after work to extend life of project
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. says it has restarted production at its Terra Nova ...
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Committee approves heritage reconstruction build in Ottawa’s Centretown
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Planning and Housing Committee has approved a proposal to dism...
Projects

Twenty-two per cent of construction cones in downtown Montreal are ‘useless’: report
MONTREAL — A new report by Montreal's chamber of commerce says about one in five...
Infrastructure

Focus on the work, not who does it, says Women in Construction panellist
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STO poised for major advances in 2024: Young
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Labour

Ontario nixes cities’ ask to allow more of them to get housing infrastructure money
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Province to take control of two Toronto highways in ‘new deal’ for city
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Proactive climate adaptation can cut Ontario public infrastructure costs: watchdog
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Economic , Infrastructure

Ontario provides funding to create housing units in Prescott and Russell
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Ontario funds nine hydrogen power projects
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EllisDon employees become plant protectors on Port Lands project
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Fast-tracking Brownfield development will require political will, focus and money
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Infrastructure

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City of Toronto announces supportive housing milestones
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Backers of the 2032 Olympics confirm Brisbane stadium will be demolished and rebuilt for the games
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Municipalities say $600 billion in infrastructure needed to build 5.8 million homes
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Government , Infrastructure

UPDATE: Rescuers in India trying to evacuate 41 workers from a collapsed tunnel are delayed again
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Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
Directors with the provincial and national building trades say they are still wa...
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Massive investments planned for Houston area ports
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Stakeholders offer muted praise for Freeland’s fall statement
National construction stakeholders found few reasons for enthusiasm as they diss...
Government

Go big or go home: Brownfield math complex and challenging
The plan was to build 40 tiny homes in St. Thomas, Ont. on the site of a former...
Infrastructure

PHOTO: New Digs on Dupont
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Projects

Fall-from-height injuries fell 19 per cent after WAH training made mandatory in Ontario
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Infrastructure

A deep dive into the successes, challenges of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
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Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
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Near-term Risk of Recession in Canada Remains High
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Birchley Park development a brownfield gem in Toronto’s ‘Quarry Lands’
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