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London announces $200M Renew Construction program spending
The city intends to invest in building and rehabilitating roads, sewers, watermains, sidewalks and intersections.
CMHC says annual rate of housing starts climbed 13 per cent in February
The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts for the second month of the year was 243,959 units compared with 216,514 in January.
Brendan Nobes to serve second year as CCA Chair
Nobes, who served as Chair in the association’s 2022–2023 year, was reconfirmed as Chair at the CCA’s annual conference in Arizona on March 7.
Ontario to see higher numbers of economic immigrants under federal agreement
The federal and provincial immigration ministers announced on Friday that the province will have more than 18,000 spots under the program in 2025.
Stouffville contractor fined $100,000 for workplace incident
A worker was critically injured when a rope attached to a tensioner-puller machine pulling an aerial cable over the span of the Burlington Canal Lift Bridge broke.