In a tight race against former deputy mayor, Ana Bailão, Olivia Chow secured 37.2 per cent of votes to become Toronto’s new mayor.

Queen’s University ranked first in Canada and third worldwide out of more than 1,700 participating institutions in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.

Alberta Ecotrust Foundation and Efficiency Capital have joined forces to deliver deep energy retrofits in multi-residential buildings across Alberta.

Proposed new legislation calls on airport authorities to establish noise management committees, develop climate action plans and report annually on the diversity of their senior management and boards.

Investment partners, Brookfield Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, have acquired Compass Datacenters LLC and its portfolio of 13 hyperscale campuses.

Group HD, Omnia Technologies and Fiera Real Estate have broken ground on the CITIZIA, a 10-storey sustainable rental development in Montreal.

Groundskeeping specifications for federal properties are set to change under a new policy disallowing pesticide application for cosmetic purposes.

Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust has inked a $270-million deal for Conestoga Mall, a 585,000-square-foot enclosed shopping centre in Waterloo, Ontario.

Waterloo-based developer PGE used advanced cloud technologies to enable a phased approach to construction, shaving months off the process.  

A new 12-bed intensive care unit (ICU) at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is set to open at the end of June.

The Ontario government is expanding strong mayor powers to the mayors of 26 fast-growing municipalities that have pledged to invest in housing.

Sales rose in about 70 per cent of all local markets, including the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Montreal, Greater Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa.

The Canadian government is moving to establish a promised sustainable jobs secretariat and associated advisory council, meant to guide a labour strategy for wide-scale decarbonization.

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan will bring its global real estate investment team in-house, while Cadillac Fairview Corporation manages its Canadian portfolio with a new president and CEO at the helm.

The Canadian government is seeking candidates to demonstrate aggregated deep energy retrofits across at least 100 units of low-rise social, community-based non-profit or cooperative housing.

The Diamond Foundation has announced a $20 million donation to fund a brand-new Road to Recovery at St. Paul's Hospital.

The Assembly of First Nations and Indigenous Services Canada updated its education infrastructure standards for schools on-reserve.