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Canadian Apartment Magazine
Scotiabank announces $10 billion commitment toward new affordable housing
Scotiabank announced it will be aligning with CMHC to mobilize $10 billion over the next ten years to support the creation of new affordable housing.
REMI Network
1 in 3 workers may quit if called back to office full time
About 33 per cent of professionals currently working from home due to the pandemic would look for a new job if called back to the office full time.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ice rink operators offered SaskPower discount
It’s actually too late for Saskatchewan’s ice rink operators to apply for the funding outlined in the 2021-22 provincial budget earlier this week, but they could still qualify for electricity rate relief this spring and summer.
REMI Network
GTA home prices rise by up to 48% since COVID
Many people are relocating out of Toronto to the suburbs, driving home prices up. Here's where the highest appreciation is occurring.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Saskatchewan to tax EV owners for road upkeep
The 2021-22 Saskatchewan budget also commits more than $937 million to upgrade the provincial electricity system and nearly $175 million to underwrite an electricity rebate for SaskPower customers.
REMI Network
Property Management Institute of Canada partners with MediaEdge Communications
The industry partnership will develop a series of certificates leading to a Canadian Building Operator designation.
REMI Network
New CPP entity stretches meaning of sustainable
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has rolled its holdings in energy, resources, power and renewables into a newly dubbed sustainable energy group with approximately $18 billion in assets.
Canadian Property Management
Pace of office sublet activity slackens in Q1
Industrial space got even tighter in Canada’s largest commercial real estate markets during the first quarter of 2021, while office sublet activity continued, but at a slower pace than in Q4 2020.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Boardwalk shares positive operational update
Boardwalk REIT released a positive operational update highlighting indicators of economic recovery in the hard-hit Alberta market.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
COVID aggravates Quebec social housing backlog
The 2021-2022 Quebec budget opens up an enhanced refundable tax credit for rental housing tenants aged 70 and older, and promises incremental upward adjustments over the next five years.
Canadian Property Management
Deal begets BGO Strategic Capital Partners
BentallGreenOak has acquired Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management from the Carlyle Group.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Equiton acquires two Hamilton apartment buildings
Equiton announced it has completed the purchase of two apartment buildings in the Beasley neighbourhood of East Hamilton, Ontario.
REMI Network
Ontario funds construction training in Hamilton
This support will reduce obstacles to hiring, training and retaining workers and apprentices, and reduce the stigma related to a career in the skilled trades to attract a new generation of workers.
Design Quarterly
Green experts issue antimicrobial use warning
Green building organizations, architects, and scientists warn that building materials with added antimicrobials have no proven health benefit.
REMI Network
Post-COVID plexiglass surplus to be repurposed
Building owners/managers recognize the looming challenge to sustainably decommission transparent panels once they get public health approval to take the smudge magnets down.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Quebec employers encouraged to take on trainees
Quebec employers will be eligible for an enhanced refundable tax credit if they employ and/or invest in training interns during the next 13 months.
REMI Network
Canadians foresee mental health impacts persisting post COVID
Half of Canadians say the pandemic has had an ongoing impact on their mental health and more than four-in-10 think the impact will last long after the pandemic is over.



















