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Your top DCN headlines: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3

Your top DCN headlines: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
Your top DCN headlines this week cover industry reaction to the passing of long-time Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion; a settlement between the City of Ottawa and Rideau Transit Group pertaining to the infamous LRT project; the kickoff to Black History M...
Associations , Economic , Government , Infrastructure , Labour

LIUNA helps kickoff Be More Than A Bystander campaign
HAMILTON, ONT. - Interval House of Hamilton (IHOH) and LIUNA are partnering for...
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No. 2 Construction Battalion celebrated during Black History Month
A celebration of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, the first and only all-Black...
Associations , Government , Labour

RESCON helps fight hunger with Daily Bread Food Bank donation
The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) recently made a $25,000...
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Your top DCN headlines: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
Your top DCN headlines this week cover industry reaction to the passing of long-...
Associations , Economic , Government , Infrastructure , Labour

LIUNA helps kickoff Be More Than A Bystander campaign
HAMILTON, ONT. - Interval House of Hamilton (IHOH) and LIUNA are partnering for...
Associations

No. 2 Construction Battalion celebrated during Black History Month
A celebration of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, the first and only all-Black...
Associations , Government , Labour

RESCON helps fight hunger with Daily Bread Food Bank donation
The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) recently made a $25,000...
Associations

Vilardi named new Ontario Association of Architects president
TORONTO — The council of the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has a new p...
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Letter to the Editor: Ottawa Hospital has nothing to brag about
To the Editor, The Ottawa Hospital calls it a “landmark” agreement. But...
Associations

Lucky seven: Your 2022 VICA safety award winners
Despite the challenges of staying focused during the disruption of the COVID yea...
Associations , OH&S

Infrastructure projects booming in 2023, Surma tells OGCA members
Those in attendance at the Ontario General Contractors Association’s (OGCA) seco...
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Residential builders raise more than $1.4M for Toronto affordable housing projects
VAUGHAN, ONT. — The residential construction industry raised more than $1.4 mill...
Associations , Projects

EllisDon supports women with vests that fit
EllisDon’s new Fit Your Frame campaign, launched to provide construction safety...
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Construction bosses in the hot seat at investors conference
A new report for investors on the 2023 prospects for a range of Canadian industr...
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TCA Best of the Best Awards return in February
TORONTO — For the first time in two years, the Toronto Construction Association...
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HHCA presents annual forecast Jan. 19
HAMILTON — The Hamilton-Halton Construction Association (HHCA) is hosting its an...
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Richard McKeagan Scholarship Series provides $30,000 for students
OTTAWA — The Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada (MCAC) recently announ...
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Medals in Architecture event to be held Jan. 24
OTTAWA - The awards ceremony for the 2022 recipients of the Governor General’s M...
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BCA Women in Construction donate to shelter
BARRIE, ONT. — The Barrie Construction Association Women in Construction Group (...
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Trillium Awards for asphalt plants sees continued success 20 years running
Now in its 20th year, an Ontario Asphalt Pavement Council (OAPC) program to demo...
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2022 marks year of ‘generational change’ for Ontario construction
While escalating project costs, labour shortages and supply chain challenges con...
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VIDEO: 2022 – The Year in Review
As another year draws to a close for the Canadian construction industry, some tr...
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TCBN honoured with Atkinson Foundation’s Good Fight Prize
TORONTO - The Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) has won the 2022 Atkinso...
Associations , Infrastructure

New Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement report offers best practices
Municipalities, hot mix asphalt producers and contractors now have a detailed re...
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‘Crisis’ in worker supply dominated 2022: national stakeholders
National construction stakeholders suggest 2022 was the year that workforce avai...
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RAIC now accepting submissions for annual awards
OTTAWA — The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) 2023 annual awards...
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BCCSA to launch new asbestos control training program in 2023
Mike McKenna, executive director of the BC Construction Safety Alliance (BCCSA),...
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IHSA suspended work platform training a must
In the potentially dangerous occupation of working from suspended work platforms...
Associations , Labour

Hitting the road with ORBA’s 16th road building academy
With winter firmly entrenched and road construction halted—for the most part—unt...
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Sweet: Gingerbread City submissions on display online and in-person
TORONTO — The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City exhibit is now liv...
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Canadian Real Estate Association reports home sales down in November
OTTAWA - The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) says seasonally adjusted ho...
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Business group calls on Ottawa to freeze higher EI, CPP premiums planned for new
OTTAWA — A small business group is calling on the federal government to freeze u...
Associations , Government

Concrete Ontario award winners more than just form and function
TORONTO — Breaking away from tradition using innovative techniques was an underl...
Associations , Projects

RESCON supports commitments in 2023 Housing Action Plan
VAUGHAN, ONT. — The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) has iss...
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Retaining employees increasingly important in today’s competitive market, panellists highlight
As important as innovative hiring strategies can be to a company’s success at fi...
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U.S. construction costs fell sharply in December
ARLINGTON, VA. — Falling prices for diesel fuel, lumber and steel cooled inflati...
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Ottawa Hospital and building trade unions partner to build massive new campus
OTTAWA — The Ottawa Hospital recently announced a first in Ontario health care a...
Infrastructure , Labour

Modular construction just what the doctor ordered for health care
Like other sectors of the Canadian economy, the health care industry wants to sp...
Infrastructure , OH&S , Technology

Crews work 55 consecutive hours to build new Hazel McCallion underpass
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. — It took LIUNA Local 183 crews 55 hours straight under a busy...
Infrastructure

Residences to help solve McMaster’s housing crunch
With lack of student housing now a significant problem, Hamilton, Ont.’s McMaste...
Infrastructure

London, Ont. building collapse survivor dedicates career to changing site safety
It’s been a long and hard road for construction worker Jacob Hurl, who was trapp...
Labour , OH&S

HOPA outlines long list of Hamilton port projects for 2023
Hamilton-Oshawa Port Au-thority (HOPA) executive Jonathan Wetselaar delivered th...
Labour

ACCIONA forecasts more collaborative models for building infrastructure in 2023
When it comes to the market outlook for 2023, the industry is going to see a con...