Industry News
REMI Network
Registration now open for 2021 ISSA Show Canada
The virtual event on June 17, 2021 will recognize the cleaning industry’s position today, and where we may go from here.
REMI Network
Guelph looks at co-locating critical services as city grows
Guelph is looking to build a centralized campus of facilities that would house snow removal, solid waste collection and transit maintenance.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New rent report looks at GTA neighbourhoods
A new report from liv.rent explores the pandemic’s impact on the cost of rent in specific GTA neighbourhoods for Q1 2021.
Canadian Property Management
More hotel deal activity projected beyond Q2
Of the 21 transactions totalling approximately $197 million in value during the first quarter of 2021, seven properties were sold for redevelopment or conversion to other uses and three were distressed sales.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Off-reserve dwellings to get energy attention
Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services is launching an energy consulting team to work with First Nations, Inuit and Métis property managers and tenants in off-reserve dwellings.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Modest spending outlay for federal portfolio
The Canadian government expects to spend nearly $93 million to offset energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in its own portfolio, but $77.9 million of that is slated for unspecified “future years”.
Canadian Property Management
Pandemic relief defrays Ontario insolvencies
Low interest rates, flexibility to defer payments and various government-funded programs synergized into what are characterized as “exceptional” circumstances in a recessionary period.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate opts for simple computer passwords
Analysis of more than 162,000 publicly reported data breaches at major real estate firms finds that “password”, “123456” and some variation of a company’s name are ensconced favourites.
REMI Network
Walmart building first distribution centre in Atlantic Canada
The $56-million project will be designed with sustainability in mind, such as reducing long haul distances with products much closer to stores.
Construction Business
Calgary approves $200M for downtown plan
The City of Calgary has approved an investment of $200 million for the Greater Downtown Plan.
REMI Network
Large-scale long-term care homes ‘strongly discouraged’
Researchers say 31 per cent of infections and 31 per cent of deaths could have been prevented if all Ontario long-term care residents had had single rooms.
CondoBusiness
Power system revenue transcends lockdown relief
It appears that seven weeks of COVID-19-related electricity rate relief for residential and small business customers did not adversely undermine Ontario power system revenue.
Canadian Property Management
GTA’s Q1 2021 investment sales surpass Q1 2020
Industrial assets and development land accounted for more than 50 per cent of investment sales value in Q1 2021 with trade activity in both sectors far outpacing deal-making in the pre-pandemic months of 2020.
REMI Network
Feds greenlight ‘vacant home’ tax for foreign buyers
As of January 2022, the government is applying a 1 per cent annual tax on the value of non-resident and non-Canadian owned properties that are “vacant or underused.”
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Radiation cleanup crews to be offered payouts
Long overlooked cleanup crews have been offered compensatory payouts more than six decades after nuclear contamination incidents at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s Chalk River Laboratories.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Health care providers contemplate plastic waste
Project partners and advisors will explore options to reduce, reuse and recycle personal protective equipment and medical single-use plastic items before disposal.
