The proposed Ontario Pumped Storage Project would be sited on DND lands in Meaford. If approved for construction, it would become the province’s largest energy-storge facility.

A new report issued by Cardus takes aim at community benefits agreements, arguing the need for reform to make the agreements better defined, less exclusionary and more measurable.

Several associations have written to procurement minister Anita Anand with concerns about changes to the way in which contractors and their workers are cleared to work on secure federal government sites.

Statistics Canada’s latest look at construction prices shows growth of 7.5 percent in the residential sector for the period of April to June, and of 3.7 percent in the non-residential sector.

Work at the station has been underway for 11 years at a final projected cost of $824 million. On July 27, Toronto Mayor John Tory reopened the Bay Concourse, which marked the end of construction at the country’s busiest multimodal passenger hub.