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Ontario plans to speed up new home connections to electricity grid
Lecce says the current system is making building difficult in new areas because no one wants to take on the risk and the extra cost.
Construction work starts on York Battery Energy Storage System
Once completed, the system will store and release 120 MW of electricity, enough to power 120,000 homes.
Non-residential investment levels reach all-time high in August
Driven by a 14th increase in a row in Ontario’s institutional sector, non-residential investment values rose to a record level of $6.4 billion for the month.
Permit values follow record July with sharp decline in August
Values for August dropped by 7%, or just over $858 million, to reach $11.5 billion. This follows an increase of almost 21% in July.
'Break in the cooling trend': Jobs report tops economists' expectations in September
Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the economy added 47,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate declined for the first time since January to 6.5 per cent.