Aecon Group Inc. raised its quarterly dividend nearly six per cent despite reporting a big drop in fourth-quarter profits.

The Skills and Partnership Fund is a long-standing Indigenous labour market program that builds partnerships between Indigenous organizations and employers. This latest call for proposals under the program targets key areas of growth, including training for infrastructure work.

With funding from the provincial and federal governments, a Toronto health-care facility is set to build and run a rehabilitation centre dedicated to treating first responders and medical personnel for post-traumatic stress injuries.

Union leaders, opposition MPs and advocates for Canada's steel producers say they are concerned that a portion of a $5.7-billion project could be built using raw materials produced outside North America.

Avery Construction will use the funding to purchase a portable asphalt plant. The new equipment will allow the company to provide a more environmentally sound asphalt.