The decline maintains the downward trend that started in May with the lifting of provincial employment restrictions enacted to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Cash is king, and nowhere more so in Canada than in the residential construction sector. The latest data from Statistics Canada reveals the home building and renovation sector accounted for 26 percent of the total underground economy in 2018.

The contractor has stepped up the measures it has put in place to find and prosecute those responsible for the anti-Black racist acts at the Michael Garron Hospital site—including upping a reward that leads to arrest to $50,000.

The group’s first meeting laid the groundwork for its work going forward. It will meet quarterly to develop ideas on how to deal with racism and change the industry’s culture.

Participants in a RESCON webinar on October 13 discussed how to keep workers safe during the emerging second COVID-19 wave, and with the additional challenge of winter weather to come.