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Toronto invests in shoreline protection infrastructure

With the support of the Government of Canada, Toronto's shoreline protection infrastructure will undergo extensive rehabilitation.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

RentSeeker.ca continues to disrupt the digital rental marketplace

As Canada’s population becomes increasingly digital friendly, transitioning towards a digital rental marketplace is inevitable. Find out how Rentseeker.ca is leading the transition.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Tourism momentum tests Toronto and Vancouver

A new index of tourism-related economic development potential in 49 global markets plots Toronto and Vancouver among nine cities that are experiencing pressure from a growing influx of leisure attraction seekers.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Affordability worse for renting Canadians: Report

New data from Rentals.ca shows that affordability for low-income Canadian renters is worse than what was reported in mid-July by the CCPA.

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

B.C. organization calls on public to recycle safe

Recycle BC is warning residents in British Columbia to pay attention to the hazardous materials that are being placed in the province’s residential packaging and paper

Design Quarterly

RHF Accessibility Professional Network launches

RHF has launched an Accessibility Professional Network, a professional association developed to bring together the accessibility community.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Apartment construction bolsters July housing starts

The trend in housing starts was 208,970 units in July 2019, compared to 205,765 units in June 2019, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

Canadian Property Management

NB confers on industrial property assessment

A standing committee of New Brunswick's legislative assembly is exploring whether equipment and machinery used in manufacturing and industrial processes should be factored into the assessed value of the property.

Canadian Property Management

Allied and Westbank announce plans for 720 Beatty Street

Westbank will manage the property on completion.

REMI Network

City council endorses waterfront development in Port Credit

The former Imperial Oil Lands 72-acre property has sat vacant for nearly 30 years.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Canada invests in wood construction and innovation

The government of Canada announced a $2.5-million investment in the Canadian Wood Council's Advanced Wood Education Roadmap to promote the benefits and opportunities associated with wood construction.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

New affordable rental project underway in Vancouver

With the help of the National Housing Strategy, construction is underway at a 145-unit mixed-use building just outside of downtown Vancouver.

Canadian Property Management

JLL appoints new CEO of Canadian Markets

Alan MacKenzie will lead the business and its adoption of new technologies across Canada.

Canadian Property Management

Carbon pricing reappears on Ontario gas bills

Carbon pricing has been reinstated on Ontario's natural gas bills 10 months after utilities were instructed to remove the levy that the provincial government has been seeking to quash.

Canadian Property Management

Halifax office vacancy dips for second year in a row

This drop came despite an uptick in the vacancy rate in the downtown Central Business District (CBD), which saw a modest increase.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Starlight offers U.S. multifamily investment strategies

Starlight has released a new white paper analyzing the ways in which investors can earn attractive risk-adjusted returns in the mature U.S. multifamily market.

Canadian Property Management

Cynthia Cruickshank receives $5.1 million in funding

The Carleton University professor will use the funds to develop new building envelope technologies that reduce emissions in Canada’s building sector.