A $22-million long-term care facility has officially opened in Radville, Sask., six years after the provincial government announced it would be replacing 13 long-term care centres across the province. The Radville Marian Health Centre features 25 long-term care beds, five of which are multi-purpose (used for observation, respite or palliative care), and emergency services.

A new $2.5-million medical facility has officially opened near Boat Harbour on the Burin Peninsula, N.L. The 4,000-square-foot building, known as the Placentia West Medical Clinic (Placentia West), will provide medical and community health services to approximately 3,000 residents in the surrounding communities.

Casey House, a pioneer in HIV/AIDS health care and palliative care in Toronto, Ont., recently announced that construction of a 58,000-square-foot redevelopment project has begun at Jarvis St. and Isabella St. The $32-million development involves the renovation of an existing heritage property and the construction of a new and improved contemporary health care addition.

Alloway Hall, the Manitoba Museum’s main exhibition gallery, is set to receive a $5.3-million expansion and renovations to nearly double its size. Funded by the federal and provincial governments as well as the Winnipeg Foundation, the project is the first phase in the museum’s major Capital Renewal Plan.

As a result of a $150,000 donation from the Fallsview Resort and Casino, the St. Catharines Sports Hall of Fame has been relocated to the concourse level of the City’s Meridian Centre. The hall features the achievements and accomplishments of St. Catharines, Ont. athletes who have participated in sporting events at the provincial, national and international level.

Under British Columbia’s Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Renewal Initiative, Vancouver’s historic Gastown Hotel has been renovated and officially re-opened for business. The $143.3-million public-private initiative was established to help restore and maintain 13 provincially owned SRO hotels in the city’s Downtown Eastside for homeless individuals or those at risk of homelessness.

A $54.2-million manufacturing facility, specializing in the creation of aerospace products, will be built in Cambridge, Ont. The 108,000-square-foot facility will be owned and operated by Héroux-Devtek Inc., a Canadian company that designs and develops landing gear for the aerospace market.

Facility management company Cofely Services Inc. (Cofely) has been selected to manage a new Civic Operations Centre (COC) in Saskatoon, Sask., which is slated to enter construction this spring.

The Global Group (Global), a manufacturer of office furniture, has appointed a new President and CEO to its team. Effective Feb. 10, Joel Feldberg, Global’s former Chief Operating Officer, assumed the role.

Construction of the 35-acre CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes' Village, known as the Canary District, is now complete and ready to house a total of 10,300 Pan American and Parapan American Games athletes and officials. When the Games begin in July 2015, the Village will feature a YMCA, banks, a coffee shop, a general store, a dining tent, a prosthetic and wheelchair repair centre, and an 18-acre park.

Prince Edward Island’s first Youth Recovery Centre is almost complete, thanks to a provincial investment of $800,000. The facility, which entered construction last fall, is part of a $9-million commitment to improving access to youth addictions and mental health treatments throughout the province. The project will be complete in April.

A new $16-million Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre (Food Centre) is being financed, in part, by Growing Forward 2, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The new 30,000-square-foot facility will expand the province’s food ingredient processing sector, housing product development, specialized laboratory services, extrusion technology, interim capacity and more.

As of September 2015, the University of Calgary will offer a Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree program through the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS). The program will be the first of its kind in Canada since 1980 and the only one in Alberta.

A new smartphone application, known as “Breather,” allows users to rent workspace in busy urban centres on an hourly basis, a concept only starting to gain momentum in Canada. Founders Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi hope to capitalize on the growing trend of self-employed or work-from-home employees.

A new survey from Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals, has found that companies offering remote working opportunities are on the rise. According to the report, which includes results from interviews with 270 chief financial officers (CFOs) based in companies across Canada, 11 per cent of CFOs said that offering employees the option to work remotely or from home had increased in the last three years.

Hydro Ottawa subsidiary Energy Ottawa Inc. is distributing a new web-based tool so commercial businesses and landlords can better identity building inefficiencies and energy waste.

A new state-of-the-art Cogeco Data Services Centre is on track to open in Kirkland, Que. this spring. The 100,000-square foot facility will be the fifth Cogeco project of its kind in Canada, bringing the company’s total data centre capacity to over 200,000 square feet.