The Ontario credit union will contribute $100,000 to a pilot program in which employees would work alongside skilled trades students and Indigenous communities to build and establish tiny homes for First Nations communities.

The licence application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is the latest in a series of milestones that could see the new technology deployed at the Darlington nuclear plant by 2028.

The engineering firm said its net income amounted to $44.7 million or $0.25 per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30. The results compare with a net income of $18.6 million or 11 cents per diluted share in the third quarter of 2021. 

The value of building permits dropped 17.5 percent for the month, as all five sub-components of the residential and non-residential sectors lost ground.

The $1.2-billion state-of-the-art facility is being constructed by EllisDon Infrastructure Justice under a design, build, finance and maintain arrangement. Completion is targeted for the fall of 2026.