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Budget 2022: Housing supply gets $10B boost; Feds add measures to curb speculation
The Liberal government will try to ease Canada’s housing crisis with more than $10 billion in funding meant to speed up home construction and repairs as well as a ban on home buying by foreign investors.
It’s time for the Canada Infrastructure Bank to reclaim its public purpose
Five years into its mandate, the CIB has not delivered on its promise, say the authors. Of the $19.4 billion invested to date, only about one-third has come from private and institutional investors ($7.2 billion).
Three pre-qualified for WAHA redevelopment project
Infrastructure Ontario and Weeneebayko Area Health Authority have prequalified teams led by PCL, Pomerleau and Bird to submit proposals to deliver the WAHA Redevelopment Project.
Province announces two key hospital investments
Hospitals in Toronto and Hamilton received a funding boost for the province to help plan expansion and renovation projects.
'Nation-building' investments in electricity grid needed to reach net-zero: Experts
Canada already has one of the cleanest electricity grids in the world, but in order to slow the pace of climate change, electrifying more activities will be required.