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City of Toronto to clarify safety system language in procurement policy

The City of Toronto will be changing the wording in its construction procurement...

Government December 4, 2023

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 December 1, 2023

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 November 30, 2023

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 November 30, 2023

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 November 30, 2023

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 November 30, 2023

CIB unveils Indigenous project funding scheme

Look for significant new Indigenous-linked projects to be greenlit now that the...

Government , Infrastructure November 30, 2023

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 November 29, 2023

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 November 29, 2023

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 November 29, 2023

Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate

OTTAWA - A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Can...

Government November 29, 2023

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 November 28, 2023

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 November 27, 2023

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 November 27, 2023

Ontario funds nine hydrogen power projects

HALTON HILLS, ONT.  —The Ontario government has announced it is spending $5.9 mi...

Government , Projects , Resource November 27, 2023

City of Toronto announces supportive housing milestones

TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced milestones for two supportive housing pr...

Government , Infrastructure November 27, 2023

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 November 27, 2023

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 November 24, 2023

Stakeholders offer muted praise for Freeland’s fall statement

National construction stakeholders found few reasons for enthusiasm as they diss...

Government November 24, 2023

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 November 24, 2023

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 November 24, 2023

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 November 24, 2023

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 November 23, 2023

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 November 23, 2023

Ontario stakeholders scramble in reaction to Sudbury SCC decision

Construction stakeholders are calling for swift action from the Ontario governme...

Government , OH&S November 23, 2023

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 November 22, 2023

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 November 22, 2023

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 November 21, 2023

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 November 21, 2023

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 November 21, 2023

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 November 21, 2023

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 November 21, 2023

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