Tag Archives: Construction

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...

OTTAWA - The Conservative party released two new ads this week attacking NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a "sellout," blaming him for a national rise in crime, housing prices and costly living. The ads, w...

VANCOUVER - Almost all British Columbia communities have adopted the provincial government's plan to tackle the housing crisis by allowing more multi-unit homes on properties. The province says nearly...

WINNIPEG - Some tenants of an apartment building moved back in Monday, more than a week after they say they were forced out on a few hours' notice by a new landlord who put some of their belongings on...

TORONTO - In the year since so-called strong mayor powers were granted to the heads of council in a swath of Ontario municipalities, most mayors have used them sparingly - if at all - though in some c...

MONTREAL - It's one of Quebec's many idiosyncrasies that in the dog days of summer, when everyone wishes they were on holiday, virtually the entire construction industry and a good chunk of the rest o...