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Canada pledges $6B housing infrastructure fund
The Government of Canada is launching a new $6 billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund to help accelerate critical housing infrastructure.
REMI Network
Manitoba security system purchasers to get rebate
The Manitoba government is delivering on an election campaign promise to provide a $300 rebate on the purchase of a business or home security system.
REMI Network
Canadians specify hybrid work as a top job benefit
While one in five employers want to see their workers in the office more readily, 79 per cent said they would not issue a full return-to-office yet.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
BC proposes amendments to Residential Tenancy Act
The Province of B.C. is changing the Residential Tenancy Act to deter bad-faith evictions and eliminate rent increases for households with children.
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Solar installation begins operating at Commonwealth Recreation Centre
The installation can offset between 75 and 100 per cent of the facility's energy needs in ideal solar conditions on a day with average building consumption.
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Work begins on QEII Halifax Infirmary expansion
The largest healthcare construction project in Nova Scotia’s history is now underway.
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Critical minerals promise to work on their attitude
The clean tech enablers say they will try to ease up on scathing remarks about humanity’s shortcomings and become more encouraging.
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Analysis reveals GTA’s highest and lowest condo fees
The least expensive maintenance fees were mainly located beyond Toronto’s core.
Construction Business
Competition Bureau orders Quebec divestiture
Quebec-based concrete supplier, Béton Provincial, will have to divest a ready-mix concrete plant that is part of its pending acquisition of a rival’s Quebec operations.
Canadian Property Management
Constraints on cannabis retailers could loosen
A proposed tweak to the rules governing store configurations could make Ontario’s enclosed shopping malls more welcoming for cannabis retailers.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
30,000 Ontario landlords unite against failing LTB
More than 30,000 Ontario landlords have signed a petition urging the Ford government to implement an automatic evictions process to speed up delays at the LTB.
Canadian Property Management
Cleantech start-ups tapped for Sask tax credit
Saskatchewan-based deantech start-ups are newly included in a provincial incentive program that will convey up to $225,000 in non-refundable tax credits per annual investment to their investors.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New Brunswick confirms funds for private renters
The newly released 2024 New Brunswick budget confirms funds to assist tenants in the private rental housing market, including for the launch of a promised direct-to-tenant rental benefit.
REMI Network
Designer chosen for Canada’s first proton therapy facility
Stantec is designing the Ben Stelter Proton Facility and Neuroscience Centre of Excellence in Edmonton, Canada’s first cancer care facility offering proton therapy.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Toronto eyes enforcement clout for EV spaces
Toronto’s commercial and multifamily landlords could be getting some enforcement clout beyond the honour system to discourage misuse of electric vehicle charging spaces in their parking garages.
Design Quarterly
Vancouver to gain more authority over landscaping
Proposed amendments to Vancouver’s charter would allow Council to set conditions for landscaping new development and hand off dog licence revocation to City staff.
REMI Network
McGill achieves sustainable milestone
McGill University has become the oldest in Canada to receive a Platinum STARS rating for sustainability.