The worst-kept secret of Canadian politics right now is that there’s likely to be a federal election this year. Could that derail the COVID-19 funding that municipalities are waiting for?

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.

Prices for flat-rolled steel continued to rise through the fourth quarter of 2020 and again in the early weeks of 2021. What’s more, fabricators are warning that a normal two- to three-week lead time has been extended to one or two months.

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.