Tag Archives: Construction

OTTAWA - Senior public servants have been called to a House of Commons committee to explain the government's decision to buy a $9-million condo for the consul general in New York. Conservative MP Mich...

LANGLEY, B.C. - The British Columbia government is providing $2.65 billion for upgrades to Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley in an effort to relieve traffic congestion and ease daily commutes betwee...

VANCOUVER - Inequalities are baked into British Columbia's justice, health and child-welfare systems and rights issues in the province abound in schools, hospitals and workplaces, says the province's ...

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. - Councillors in the District of West Vancouver, B.C., have narrowly voted in favour of getting onboard with provincial legislation requiring communities to allow multi-unit housi...

The town of Jasper says early numbers indicate last month's wildfires destroyed $283 million worth of property. The town also reports that while 358 structures were destroyed, mostly businesses and ho...

HALIFAX - The federal government is providing $6.7 million to two programs that assist homeless veterans in Nova Scotia. One group, Veterans Emergency Transition Services Canada (VETS Canada), is gett...

ESQUIMALT, B.C. - National Defence Minister Bill Blair says British Columbia's CFB Esquimalt will be the site of a new 480-room military housing project. The minister was at the Victoria-area naval ba...

VANCOUVER - Urban planner Louisa-May Khoo says she got a sense of deja-vu when British Columbia Premier David Eby announced the BC Builds housing program earlier this year. Khoo, a University of Briti...

For a country with such a severe shortage of housing, the way Canada builds homes hasn't changed that much since the country was founded. Workers arrive on site with building materials they assemble p...

TORONTO - A coalition of Ontario developers has written to three levels of government to ask for a reduction in taxes on new housing, saying it will pass on those savings dollar for dollar to homebuye...