Reflections Condominium (Reflections), a 12-storey condo development in Toronto's North York region, has earned a LEED Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). A joint venture project by FRAM Building Group and Cadillac Fairview Corporation, the 106-unit residential development was recently completed and is one of a few condo developments to receive the Gold certification.

Developers of a mixed-use project, featuring a 42,000-square-foot Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) store, at 784 Sheppard Ave. in Toronto, Ont. have received approval from the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) to add a 50-unit stacked townhouse complex to the site and construction is now underway.

National home sales fell 3.1 per cent from December of last year to January 2015, according to the latest month-over-month analysis from the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). Although fewer sales were recorded in approximately 60 per cent of all housing markets, the country’s weakest markets altered national totals significantly. These regions included Edmonton, Sask. and Calgary, Alta.

Plans to build a symbolic new landmark in Quebec City are finally being realized with a $600 million investment in Le Phare de Québec, a

The Unité de travail pour l'implantation de logement étudiant (UTILE), a non-profit organization focused on student housing in Quebec, has launched a new trilingual website for students seeking housing information in Montréal. The site, Likehome.info, was developed after survey results from over 11,000 students revealed a need to improve the City’s ability to offer proper living conditions to students. Information is available in French, English and Mandarin.

Ivanhoé Cambridge has partnered with multi-family company Greystar Real Estate Partners to develop a new mixed-use project in San Francisco, Calif. The development, which entered construction in late January, will include 87 apartment homes and 5,000 square feet of retail space. It is located at 2198 Market St.

The Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (CAPREIT) has acquired Grandin Tower, a 126-unit apartment property in Edmonton, Alta. At the same time, the company also sold four Toronto apartment buildings located on Wilson Ave.

As of September 2015, the University of Calgary will offer a Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree program through the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS). The program will be the first of its kind in Canada since 1980 and the only one in Alberta.

A new smartphone application, known as “Breather,” allows users to rent workspace in busy urban centres on an hourly basis, a concept only starting to gain momentum in Canada. Founders Julien Smith and Caterina Rizzi hope to capitalize on the growing trend of self-employed or work-from-home employees.

A new survey from Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals, has found that companies offering remote working opportunities are on the rise. According to the report, which includes results from interviews with 270 chief financial officers (CFOs) based in companies across Canada, 11 per cent of CFOs said that offering employees the option to work remotely or from home had increased in the last three years.

As of Feb. 1, 2016, Calgary multi-family building residents will have access to more robust on-site recycling services under the region’s new council-approved Waste & Recycling Bylaw. Apartments, condominiums, townhouses and other multi-family complexes will be required to accept paper and cardboard, food cans, glass jars, plastic containers and bags. The City of Calgary will not collect multi-family recycling, but builder owners and managers will be tasked with determining which private company best serves the needs of their building.

Hydro Ottawa subsidiary Energy Ottawa Inc. is distributing a new web-based tool so commercial businesses and landlords can better identity building inefficiencies and energy waste.

The Heat and Frost Insulators Labour Management Cooperative Trust (Insulators LMCT) is asking the Ontario government to consider a pilot program which examines insulation efficiency

A new state-of-the-art Cogeco Data Services Centre is on track to open in Kirkland, Que. this spring. The 100,000-square foot facility will be the fifth Cogeco project of its kind in Canada, bringing the company’s total data centre capacity to over 200,000 square feet.

The City of Coquitlam and the YMCA of Greater Vancouver have signed an Agreement in Principle to develop a new 50,000-60,000-square-foot community recreation facility in the Burquitlam community of Coquitlam, B.C. A site for the new facility has not yet been selected, though city officials are eyeing the location of the future Burquitlam Evergreen Line rapid transit station.

The new Joseph & Rosalie Segal Family Health Centre at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) is one step closer to reality thanks to a recent donation of $1-million from Bell Let’s Talk. Once complete, the $82-million, eight-storey development will be the largest purpose-built mental health facility in British Columbia.

An industry committee led by the Asia Pacific Gateway Skills Table (Skills Table) is advancing the development of a voluntary, Canada-wide demonstration of skills test