Tag Archives: Construction

MONTREAL - Montreal's Olympic Stadium started 2026 the same way it began the 1976 Games: under construction and without a roof. In 2024, Quebec's tourism minister announced the province would spend $8...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on Ottawa to further speed up its approval process for major projects, saying she wants to see applications green-lit within six months. Prime Mini...

WINNIPEG - A public inquiry examining cost overruns on construction of the Winnipeg Police Service's headquarters is looking at higher-than-expected costs. The Manitoba government has approved $300,00...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has announced a new action plan it says will improve equity and community safety for LGBTQ+ people. It includes a commitment to boost funding and improve the appli...

CALGARY - A report says Calgary's catastrophic water main rupture in 2024 was largely the result of two decades of underinvestment and insufficient knowledge of the risk of pipe failures. The report w...

OTTAWA - Some First Nations chiefs say Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty's recent refusal to commit to source water protections in a promised clean water bill shows the government is sidel...

TORONTO - The Canadian office vacancy rate dipped last year for the first time since the pandemic as the return-to-office trend accelerated, said a report out Wednesday from CBRE Ltd. The national off...

Regina Mayor Chad Bachynski says he's learned a lot in his first year on the job and hopes to bring those lessons into the new year. Bachynski said that in the year ahead, he wants to focus on complet...

CALGARY - The City of Calgary expects to fix a broken water main by early next week, but the mayor says the pipe is fatally flawed and citizens should prepare for future ruptures until it's fully repl...

HALIFAX - When Amy Hendricks and Paul Davie moved to Antigonish, N.S., from Yellowknife, they had a bit of a struggle on their hands: finding the right plot of land. "We thought, how hard could it be?...