Led, staffed and owned by Indigenous professionals, SOAR is based out of Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick, and works with Indigenous communities across the country to capture community perspectives in its work.

The Ontario government has announced an investment of $3 million in a virtual training hub run by Merit Ontario that aims to upgrade construction supervisors’ skills.

The proposed Ontario Pumped Storage Project would be sited on DND lands in Meaford. If approved for construction, it would become the province’s largest energy-storge facility.

A new report issued by Cardus takes aim at community benefits agreements, arguing the need for reform to make the agreements better defined, less exclusionary and more measurable.

Several associations have written to procurement minister Anita Anand with concerns about changes to the way in which contractors and their workers are cleared to work on secure federal government sites.