The incident occurred on the site of a high-rise project in Ottawa when a worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane.

A year-over-year decrease in the industry's unemployment rate speaks to strong growth in activity across the country as work continues on projects of all types and sizes in all regions. 

There will be some exceptions to the rules for specific sectors, such as health care and construction.

The federal labour board has ordered thousands of rail employees back to work to end a bitter contract dispute that shut down the country's two major railways.

The projects are part of a larger program in which the federal government committed more than $74.6 million through its Union Training and Innovation Program.