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News and information from and for Ontario’s construction industry
The Link2Build group publishes news and information about the Ontario construction industry daily. Check here for the latest in trends, developments and insight from a wide variety of contributors, and visit regularly for updated information.
September’s national construction unemployment rate continues decline
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.
Residential construction worth 26 percent of 2018 underground economy
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.
EllisDon enhances security measures at MGH site
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.
Anti-racism council holds first meeting
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.
‘Review and adapt’ to prepare policies for second pandemic wave
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.