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Economy lost 41,000 jobs in July but unemployment rate held steady at 6.9%

OTTAWA – The Canadian economy shed some 41,000 jobs in July as young workers and the private sector bore the brunt of the losses, Statistics…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

Detroit’s derelict mansion district reborn for contemporary housing

Detroit’s Brush Park, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods and one time home to splendid mansions of the Gilded Age’s lumber barons, has been transformed.…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

Rat complaints on the rise in Montreal as critics demand city take action

MONTREAL – The rats took over James Klein’s backyard this spring. He’d never had a rat problem in the more than two decades he’s lived…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

Demolition activities starting for impacted Lakeshore East GO expansion properties

OSHAWA, ONT. – Lakeshore East GO expansion work is officially rolling along. Beginning as early as Aug. 18, Delsan AIM Environmental Services will begin demolition…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

‘Mycomorph,’ ‘Loopty Loo’: Toronto public washroom design winners announced

TORONTO – Are the winners of the “To the Loo” global challenge blushing over their flushing designs? Recently, the Toronto Public Space Committee, in partnership…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

Greater Toronto housing market sees best July in four years: real estate board

TORONTO – Greater Toronto Area-home sales rose 10.9 per cent in July compared with a year earlier as 6,100 properties changed hands, the most activity…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Commercial Construction

‘Full steam ahead’: Toronto OKs major mixed-use plan on former Downsview Airport lands

Toronto City Council has issued zoning and subdivision approvals for the first phase of Northcrest Developments’ 370-acre YZD community on the former Downsview Airport lands…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Construction Professionals

Engineers claim their facade design tool slashes costs

Buro Happold's parametric analysisConsulting engineer Buro Happold has developed what it describes as a parametric façade design tool that could reduce the cost of residential…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Construction Professionals

Waste firm fined after worker crushed by excavator

XS Farm excavators and waste pileFarm XS (Northern) Limited, based in Barnard Castle, was sentenced after an incident on 29th January 2024 that left the…

adminAugust 11, 2025

Construction Professionals

Marshalls interims below expectation

image from marshalls.co.ukIn the six months to 30th June 2025 Marshalls saw operating profit fall 37% to £18.1m and pre-tax profit fall 46% to £11.7m…

adminAugust 11, 2025