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Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The top DCN headlines this week feature a historic deal between Ontario and the City of Toronto that will see the control of two highways go to the province; Skilled Trades Ontario is looking to make some major advances in 2024; Ontario releases its busin...
Government , Infrastructure , OH&S , Projects
Ontario to do away with mandatory coroner’s inquests on construction site deaths
TORONTO — Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey says the province intends to do a...
Government , OH&S
Biden administration proposes biggest changes to lead pipe rules in more than three decades
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under st...
Government , Infrastructure , US News
New Brunswick boosting spending on roads, schools and health care facilities
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has tabled a $1.2-billion capital bud...
Government , Infrastructure
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Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The top DCN headlines this week feature a historic deal between Ontario and the...
Government , Infrastructure , OH&S , Projects
Ontario to do away with mandatory coroner’s inquests on construction site deaths
TORONTO — Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey says the province intends to do a...
Government , OH&S
Biden administration proposes biggest changes to lead pipe rules in more than three decades
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under st...
Government , Infrastructure , US News
New Brunswick boosting spending on roads, schools and health care facilities
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has tabled a $1.2-billion capital bud...
Government , Infrastructure
Legal Notes: Rise in hate crimes puts pressure on construction to ensure safety
Conflict in the Middle East has placed expressions of racial and religious hatre...
Government , OH&S
CIB unveils Indigenous project funding scheme
Look for significant new Indigenous-linked projects to be greenlit now that the...
Government , Infrastructure
RCCAO ‘optimistic’ Ontario-Toronto funding deal will help address state-of-good-repair backlog
TORONTO — Nadia Todorova, executive director of the Residential and Civil Constr...
Associations , Government , Infrastructure
Ontario releases ‘business case’ for moving science centre to Ontario Place
TORONTO - An analysis of the state of the Ontario Science Centre found that buil...
Government , Infrastructure
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...
Government , Infrastructure
Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate
OTTAWA - A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Can...
Government
Ontario nixes cities’ ask to allow more of them to get housing infrastructure money
TORONTO - Ontario's housing minister is shooting down a request from big city ma...
Government , Infrastructure
Province to take control of two Toronto highways in ‘new deal’ for city
TORONTO - Ontario will upload two Toronto highways to help alleviate the city's...
Government , Infrastructure
Ontario provides funding to create housing units in Prescott and Russell
ST-ALBERT, ONT. — Eighteen affordable housing units for seniors will be created...
Government , Projects
Ontario funds nine hydrogen power projects
HALTON HILLS, ONT. —The Ontario government has announced it is spending $5.9 mi...
Government , Projects , Resource
City of Toronto announces supportive housing milestones
TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced milestones for two supportive housing pr...
Government , Infrastructure
Municipalities say $600 billion in infrastructure needed to build 5.8 million homes
OTTAWA - The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says new research it commissi...
Government , Infrastructure
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...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Stakeholders offer muted praise for Freeland’s fall statement
National construction stakeholders found few reasons for enthusiasm as they diss...
Government
Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 20 to 24
Your top DCN headlines this week feature reaction from Ontario construction indu...
Economic , Government , Labour , OH&S
Hamilton Council OKs 45-storey residential tower at Pier 8
HAMILTON, ONT. - Hamilton City Council has approved a 45-storey tower for Block...
Government , Projects
Ontario Place for All launches legal action to stop redevelopment of West Island
TORONTO - Ontario Place for All recently filed an application with the Divisiona...
Government , Projects
Nova Scotia to build space for 270 beds at four community college campuses
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is planning new student housing on four col...
Government , Projects
Legal Notes: Balancing the advantages and risks of drones in construction
Aerial visualization of worksites has proven to be valuable throughout the const...
Government , Technology
Ontario stakeholders scramble in reaction to Sudbury SCC decision
Construction stakeholders are calling for swift action from the Ontario governme...
Government , OH&S
Judge orders McGill to comply with deal on unmarked grave search at former hospital
MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has ordered McGill University to comply with a deal it...
Government
Nova Scotia revises long term care expansion, adding another 2,200 rooms by 2032
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is expanding its revamp of the long-term ca...
Government , Projects
New housing, construction labour mobility highlighted by Freeland in Fall Statement
Federal Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland announced a modest set of new gove...
Economic , Government
Feds set aside $7B from Canada Growth Fund for carbon price contract guarantees
OTTAWA - Almost half of the Canada Growth Fund for clean technology investments...
Economic , Government
Champagne expects NextStar to bring in ‘very few’ foreign workers to help build plant
Federal ministers on Tuesday downplayed the number of foreign workers NextStar E...
Government , Projects
Inflation rate slows to 3.1 per cent in October, still above Bank of Canada target
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the inflation rate slowed to 3.1 per cent on a y...
Economic , Government
EV battery subsidy deals to cost $5.8B more than government projections: PBO report
OTTAWA — A report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer says the total cost of p...
Government , Projects
Brownfields can tackle housing crisis if governments get on board
Development, like water, usually flows along the path of least resistance. Give...
Government
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A deep dive into the successes, challenges of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
The use of the P3 model on transit projects has been scrutinized in the past few...
Infrastructure
Smoky Falls dam safety project on budget and ahead of schedule
Despite hurdles such as COVID-19, supply chain disruptions and the logistics of...
Infrastructure
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...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
Near-term Risk of Recession in Canada Remains High
Tighter-for-longer monetary policy The Organization for Economic Co-ope...
Economic
Birchley Park development a brownfield gem in Toronto’s ‘Quarry Lands’
After sitting vacant and underutilized for approximately 70 years, a large prope...
Projects
Ontario stakeholders scramble in reaction to Sudbury SCC decision
Construction stakeholders are calling for swift action from the Ontario governme...
Government , OH&S
STO poised for major advances in 2024: Young
There are major expectations for Skilled Trades Ontario to deliver the construct...
Labour
New housing, construction labour mobility highlighted by Freeland in Fall Statement
Federal Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland announced a modest set of new gove...