Economic Development
Canadian Property Management
Electricity strategy leans on influencer role
The Canadian government signals its ambitions to be an influencer via the national electricity strategy even though it lacks constitutional jurisdiction over generation, transmission and rate setting.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian lenders’ SME loan books under scrutiny
The Competition Bureau of Canada will take a closer look at how small and medium-sized enterprises obtain financing to identify potential market barriers that may be impeding economic growth.
Canadian Property Management
Energy charges Indigenous economic development
Ontario opens new round of funding for economic and community development initiatives tied to renewable energy, conservation and replacement of diesel-fired generation in remote First Nations.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto set to adjust business licensing regime
An unfolding effort to simplify Toronto’s business licensing regime promises reduced paperwork and a more technologically proficient process, but comes with at least one new user fee.
Canadian Property Management
CRE prompts and sustains economic activity
Property management and commercial brokerage services generated more than $160 billion in spending and underpinned more than 406,000 full-time jobs across the Canadian economy last year.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario reorients electricity grid access
Data centre development that aligns with Ontario’s economic development priorities has been promised a preferential place in the queue to connect to the electricity grid.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario vague on special economic zones
Ontario's Bill 5 is presented as a means to propel infrastructure, mining and resource development projects considered instrumental for economic development and safeguarding Canadian sovereignty.
Canadian Property Management
Urban network ready to track tariff impacts
The Canadian Urban Institute has begun to collect data to monitor how the Canada-U.S. trade conflict is affecting local and regional economies.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto plan advocates commercial rent control
Commercial rent control is a suggested tool to protect small business tenants in a proposed new 10-year strategy to stimulate and manage economic growth in Toronto.
Canadian Property Management
Equity partnerships generate net-zero progress
A newly released primer from the First Nations Major Projects Coalition highlights clean energy opportunities and some illustrative generation, storage and transmission projects.
Construction Business
ZEIC welcomes three new members
Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC) in Vancouver welcomed three new members for economic development and market transformation.
Construction Business
B.C. cities honoured for economic excellence
The City of Surrey, City of Richmond and Township of Langley have received a 2023 Excellence in Economic Development Gold Award.
Canadian Property Management
CRE gets peripheral standing on Manitoba council
Commercial real estate is relegated to peripheral standing on the newly struck 36-member Premier’s Business and Jobs Council, tasked with developing an economic strategy for Manitoba.
Canadian Property Management
Tech finds highly competitive options in Canada
Eight Canadian cities rank among the top 50 North American markets for fostering tech employment, with Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Waterloo Region and Calgary all placed in the top half of the list.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Canadian rents undercut U.S. tech hub averages
Canada’s leading tech hubs boast lower rental housing costs and narrower average rent-to-earnings ratios than most of their rivals in the United States.
Canadian Property Management
CRE awaits spinoffs of new provincial spending
Quebec and Ontario have announced investment incentives that could have implications for land deals and/or technologies and products that commercial real estate uses.
Canadian Property Management
Input sought on downtown Ottawa revitalization
Residents, business operators and all those generally interested in the vibrancy of Canada’s capital are invited to share their opinions with the Downtown Ottawa Revitalization Task Force.
