Canada’s housing authority says retail, construction and services workers were the most common deferrers of mortgage payments in the first few months of the COVID−19 pandemic.

Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey (LFS), conducted during the week of December 6 to 12, shows that month-over-month employment in the industry dropped by 4% – to 1,386,200 workers – in December.

Construction is complete on latest in the series of nine police detachments across the province that are being built by Bird Construction under a single P3 arrangement.

The provincial allocation is open to those municipalities with populations of less than 100,000 and the money will be shared among 424 communities. The overall funding allocation for 2021 is identical to the funding issued in 2020.

Plans by Canadian National Railway to develop 400 acres of land in Milton into a new truck-train logistics hub have been approved by the federal government—with conditions. Halton Region mayors say not enough is being done to address residents’ concerns.