Infrastructure Ontario and Niagara Health expect to shortlist three teams to deliver the project. A request for proposals will follow in the fall, with contract close expected in 2022.

Analysts Lodging Econometrics show that the hotel construction pipeline in Canada ended 2020 with 270 projects—just 35 fewer than the record high reached at the end of 2019.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the $14.9−billion announcement on Wednesday as he prepared for a virtual meeting with mayors from Canada’s largest cities, many of them struggling to make ends meet due to the COVID−19 pandemic.

The company was found to have failed to properly brace a structure so that it could not fail or collapse. The incident saw a steel structure assembly collapse, and a worker injured.

Building permit values reached just $25.1 million for the month. That’s down from the $45.3 million recorded in December 2020 and the $37.8 million recorded in January 2020.