Category Archives: Construction
Builders laud green grants, but warn that Liberal climate plan could hike home costs
The Liberal government’s new $15-billion climate action plan includes welcome incentives for green renovations, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association said Monday. But the CHBA also warned that regulators must be careful not to raise housing costs too...
New Brunswick gives COVID-19 vaccination details, Nova Scotia releases stimulus list
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick announced its plan for the initial round of vaccine to be distributed next week as it reported four new cases of COVID-19 Thursday. Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said New Brunswick's shipment of 1,950 doses of the Pfizer
Change made to insurance for B.C. condo owners amid rising premiums
VICTORIA — Insurance companies in British Columbia have agreed to end a pricing practice that has been identified as one of the key factors in skyrocketing property insurance premiums for condominiums. Earlier this year, the B.C. Financial Services Au...
‘No government contracts’ for companies that don’t manufacture in U.S., Biden vows
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that he's the president-elect, Joe Biden is doubling down on his promise that economic recovery efforts in the United States will remain a made-in-America endeavour. Biden, who was vice-president when Canada last confronted...
Protection against cruel punishment doesn’t apply to corporations: Supreme Court
OTTAWA — Only people, not corporations, benefit from the charter protection against cruel or unusual punishment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The unanimous decision came Thursday in a case involving a numbered company that faced a fine under ...
Civil, respectful but still tough: Canada-U.S. trade under a Biden presidency
OTTAWA — Canada coped with nearly four years of Donald Trump rewriting or shredding the international trade rule book. But Canadian hope of a rosy return to rules-based bonhomie with its top trading partner under a Joe Biden presidency might
Mayors, construction industry, call on Ontario and feds for infrastructure money
Ontario's largest municipalities are asking the federal and provincial governments to provide an immediate funding boost for infrastructure projects, saying cities need the help to stimulate economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayors represen...
Advocates call for change in housing fund after data shows skew to Ontario
VANCOUVER — A federal government fund providing financing for affordable housing projects needs to be rebuilt because it doesn't do enough to help provinces outside of Ontario, advocates say. The National Housing Co-Investment Fund, administered ...
Hearing over controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline resumes at B.C. Supreme Court
VANCOUVER — Arguments over the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a natural gas pipeline in B.C. resumed in court on Friday with lawyers for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs telling a judge an evaluation is needed on the potential ...
Infrastructure bank to invest $10 billion in priority areas for pandemic recovery
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic jobs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the three-year...