The latest survey on business conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic shows businesses adapting to new realities, and preparing to resume operations.

The COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act makes a number of changes that affect construction.

Although much of the money will be spent on upgrading the city’s rolling stock, several million dollars have also been allocated to construction of various facilities and roadworks.

The rolling, six-month average of housing starts in the country rose to just below 200,000 units in June, while the number of starts for the month increased by 8 percent.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught an important lesson about the link between building health and occupant health, and an overhaul of the province’s long-term care facilities is overdue, says the carpenters’’ union.