Industry News
REMI Network
Construction labour crunch at odds with housing targets
Canada’s residential construction industry will need to attract more than 1,030,000 workers in order to reach 5.8 million housing starts.
REMI Network
Portage Place site to become health and housing hub
The overhaul of Portage Place in downtown Winnipeg is moving forward. A healthcare centre and a 15-storey multi-family tower are in the works.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
LEED v5 embraces three underpinning fundamentals
Decarbonization, quality of life and ecological conservation and restoration are the underpinning fundamentals of LEED version 5, which has just been released for a first round of public input.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New heights for Ontario mass timber construction
A promised amendment to Ontario's building code will allow for mass timber buildings of up to 18 storeys, an increase above the current 12-storey threshold..
Canadian Property Management
National office vacancy rate nudges up in Q1
Vancouver and Winnipeg led positive absorption while Toronto and Montreal posted the largest losses, as the national office vacancy rate nudged up to 18.4 per cent during the winter of 2024
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Canada announces Rental Protection Fund
The federal government announced plans to launch $1.5-billion Rental Protection Fund to help preserve affordable housing.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Manitoba restores tax credit, hints new incentive
The 2024 Manitoba budget restores the rental housing construction tax credit and hints at a "time-limited" incentive for commercial-to-residential conversions.
Construction Business
Canada pledges $6B housing infrastructure fund
The Government of Canada is launching a new $6 billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund to help accelerate critical housing infrastructure.
REMI Network
Manitoba security system purchasers to get rebate
The Manitoba government is delivering on an election campaign promise to provide a $300 rebate on the purchase of a business or home security system.
REMI Network
Canadians specify hybrid work as a top job benefit
While one in five employers want to see their workers in the office more readily, 79 per cent said they would not issue a full return-to-office yet.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
BC proposes amendments to Residential Tenancy Act
The Province of B.C. is changing the Residential Tenancy Act to deter bad-faith evictions and eliminate rent increases for households with children.
REMI Network
Solar installation begins operating at Commonwealth Recreation Centre
The installation can offset between 75 and 100 per cent of the facility's energy needs in ideal solar conditions on a day with average building consumption.
REMI Network
Work begins on QEII Halifax Infirmary expansion
The largest healthcare construction project in Nova Scotia’s history is now underway.
REMI Network
Critical minerals promise to work on their attitude
The clean tech enablers say they will try to ease up on scathing remarks about humanity’s shortcomings and become more encouraging.
REMI Network
Analysis reveals GTA’s highest and lowest condo fees
The least expensive maintenance fees were mainly located beyond Toronto’s core.
Construction Business
Competition Bureau orders Quebec divestiture
Quebec-based concrete supplier, Béton Provincial, will have to divest a ready-mix concrete plant that is part of its pending acquisition of a rival’s Quebec operations.
Canadian Property Management
Constraints on cannabis retailers could loosen
A proposed tweak to the rules governing store configurations could make Ontario’s enclosed shopping malls more welcoming for cannabis retailers.