A threatened 50 per cent tariff on Canadian road salt imported into the United States is creating winter maintenance budgeting uncertainties on both sides of the international border.

Greater access to low-cost indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors may create new scrutiny for facility management teams.

FMs often work behind the scenes, but their influence is also strategic, human-centred, and essential to organizational resilience.

Bringing together BIM, IoT sensors, CMMS platforms and digital twin environments into a unified operational view, can help facility teams move beyond reactive decision-making towards more predictive, informed and proactive management.

A crop of new barrier-free facilities are championing the lived experience of people with disabilities through flexible lay-outs and sensory-conscious spaces.

Key federal departments are scrambling to catch up with climate risk assessments and response plans after the Auditor General of Canada uncovered gaps in monitoring and a slow rollout of adaptive actions.

Ontario-based workers can now track their exposure to 11 hazardous substances through Canada’s first-ever occupational exposure registry (OER). The province’s newly launched online portal is

The facility management industry is preparing for higher workloads, modest budget growth and a more deliberate approach to staffing and project risk over the next year.

The facility management field faces a range of challenges and opportunities in 2026 as technology drives change across the industry.

Accessibility is frequently sidelined during building and public-space design, with key features added long after construction is completed. This approach reinforces the notion that such

Toronto Metropolitan University's new medical school has transformed a former civic centre into a hub for healthcare education. It's tackling a doctor shortage while bringing the local community into the heart of a campus for services.

Job satisfaction in facilities management is rarely discussed, yet it has never been more important, especially given the essential nature of the work involved.

Recreational facilities across Vancouver face higher operating costs and lagging service delivery in the absence of a capital asset management framework.

Facility managers are often integrated into capital projects during the commissioning or post-occupancy phases, after critical decisions affecting long-term operations have been made.

The policy aims to prevent and respond to physical and psychological harassment from co-workers, supervisors, and external sources such as clients, contractors and customers.

Besides fire code and occupational health and safety frameworks, restroom cleaning practices are now top of mind.

As church congregations dwindle across Canada and the cost to maintain their faith-built spaces increases, ideas abound for how to repurpose these buildings into potential