Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate in March fell to its lowest rate on record, falling to 5.3 per cent from 5.5 per cent a month earlier as the economy added 72,500 jobs.

Atrua Power announced a plan last week to build a green-hydrogen production facility in Niagara Falls.

The Liberal government will try to ease Canada’s housing crisis with more than $10 billion in funding meant to speed up home construction and repairs as well as a ban on home buying by foreign investors.

The ModernTO plan will condense 55 city office locations to 15, and repurpose the vacant sites into affordable housing units and other facilities that support municipal priorities.

Five years into its mandate, the CIB has not delivered on its promise, say the authors. Of the $19.4 billion invested to date, only about one-third has come from private and institutional investors ($7.2 billion).