Every province saw drops in their real gross domestic products in 2020. While Ontario’s GDP fell by 5 percent, the province’s construction output was strong.

Ontario and the federal government have struck an agreement that will see Ottawa kick in $12 billion to help build several transit projects in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area over the next decade. 

With the lodging industry reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of hotel construction projects planned in Canada fell by 15 percent in the first quarter of this year.

Several municipal and community-infrastructure projects around Ottawa will receive more than $11 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments to help respond to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mississauga City Council is taking the uncommon step of requesting a Minister’s Zoning Order to expedite construction of a huge and potentially lucrative film studio project in the city’s southeast end.