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Georgian College announces plans to expand skilled trades centre
The college aims to modernize the existing skilled trades building in Barrie and add approximately 20,000 square feet of additional space.
Concord civil contractor fined $130k for 2023 fatality
Fourwinds Construction Inc. pled guilty to a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in a Newmarket courtroom.
Like Poilievre, Freeland is pitching a housing plan that would limit immigration
Freeland is calling on cities to slash their development charges to lower home building costs — and is threatening to withhold federal infrastructure funding if they don't.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles focuses on northern Ontario highways
Stiles promised that if her party forms government, they will widen Highway 11/17 and Highway 69 in northern Ontario and bring snow clearance and highway maintenance back under public control.
Hotel construction volume sees 13% annual increase in 2024
There were 333 projects with a total of 43,413 rooms in Canada’s construction pipeline at the end of 2024. Both figures represented year-over-year increases of 13%.