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Canada’s hotel pipeline reports 5% increase projects and rooms in Q2
Toronto continues to lead the country’s hotel construction market, with 62 projects and 9,166 rooms – fully 25% of all the rooms in the country’s total pipeline.
Toronto officials launch construction of 700+ rental units
The project at 5207 Dundas Street is being developed as part of the city’s Housing Now Initiative, which aims to stimulate the development of affordable rental housing within transit-oriented communities.
Ford asks integrity commissioner to review senior aide's role in Greenbelt decision
Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk recommended the province ask the integrity commissioner to determine if Housing Minister Steve Clark's chief of staff, Ryan Amato, acted contrary to the Public Service of Ontario Act.
Building permit values rise 6% in June
Construction of new hospitals in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec and Dawson Creek, British Columbia drove a major increase in the value of institutional construction permits.
'Certain developers' favoured in decision to open up Greenbelt, auditor general says
Lysyk said the owners of the 15 land sites removed from the Greenbelt could see an $8.3 billion increase to the value of those lands; 14 of those sites "were brought into the exercise" by the housing minister's chief of staff.