The college will use the funding from BMO to finance the construction of its Lawson Centre for Sustainability, a mass timber, zero carbon, LEED platinum multi-use building.

Train service was halted for more than six hours to four of the 13 stations along the city's main east-west line, while city infrastructure workers did a safety inspection at the St. Laurent station tunnel.

The city says the value of building permits it issued over the past two years has reached a combined total of nearly $1.5 billion.

As the construction industry strives to meet the federal government’s target of adding 3.5 million new housing units across the country by 2030, economic headwinds are slowing progress.

In its wrap up of the third quarter of last year, Statistics Canada noted several key findings, including the fifth consecutive drop in the number of job vacancies reported by employers.