Invest Ontario is all but set to provide a loan of up to $40 million to support the construction of a new biomanufacturing facility in Hamilton's McMaster Innovation Park.

Kenora’s Moncrief Construction has been awarded the contract to twin a 6.5-kilometre stretch of the highway from the Ontario-Manitoba border to Highway 673.

Sector revenues grew by slightly less than 2 percent for the year, to $33.7 billion. Commercial, public and institutional building projects accounted for 17 percent of total sales that year.

The auto parts supplier has renewed its agreement with Ford to produce batter enclosures for the F-150 Lightning electric pick-up truck, and will expand its Chatham plant to accommodate.

Caron Equipment and Tisdale Mechanical Contracting received the money from the provincial government through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.