Category Archives: Construction
New Brunswick’s Green party promises to replace Lameque-Shippagan Bridge
FREDERICTON — The leader of New Brunswick's Green party says the bridge that links Lameque and Miscou islands with the Acadian Peninsula will be replaced if his party is elected to govern the province on Monday. David Coon issued a ...
Tech group makes pitch to Liberals as part of wider push to shape recovery plan
OTTAWA — A group of tech companies is making a pitch to the federal government to help startups grow as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan that Liberals are crafting, while some feminist groups are feeling frozen out. The proposal from the
EllisDon awarded $260-million contract for Halifax outpatient centre
HALIFAX — EllisDon construction company has been awarded a $259.4-million contract to design, build, finance and maintain an outpatient centre on the outskirts of Halifax. The outpatient centre will be built in Bayers Lake and is part of...
Monitoring of contaminated sites in Nova Scotia remains weak: auditor general
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's acting auditor general says the provincial government does not have a co-ordinated approach for managing the risks associated with more than 100 contaminated sites. Terry Spicer says his staff came to th...
Monitoring of contaminated sites in Nova Scotia remains weak: auditor general
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's acting auditor general says the provincial government does not have a co-ordinated approach for managing the risks associated with more than 100 contaminated sites. Terry Spicer says his staff came to th...
COVID-19 can pose cost and delay challenges to N.S. hospital project: auditor
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's auditor general says the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to raise costs for a health care expansion project that represents the largest capital output in the province's history. Michael Pic...
Alberta won’t require full environmental assessments for sandpits
EDMONTON — Alberta is moving to change the legal definition of minerals to spare excavators from having to conduct environmental assessments for large sandpits. A court ruling earlier this spring would have forced sandpits for road and other constructi...
Statistics Canada says economy posted record 11.6 per cent plunge in April
OTTAWA — The full impact of sweeping economic lockdowns meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 came into sharper view, with new figures showing Canada saw the largest monthly drop on record in April as the country came to a
Alberta cuts business tax, boosts infrastructure spending to reboot economy
EDMONTON — Alberta is cutting business taxes, pumping billions into infrastructure and making a full court press to lure jobs from Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. "We're going to be placin...