The Scarborough Campus Student Residence building, which has been under construction since July 2020, is on track to open for the 2023-24 academic year.

The decision is an important first step toward planning the deployment of a small nuclear reactor.

The development for qualified immigrant engineers will help fill roughly 7,000 vacant positions in Ontario, said Labour Minister Monte McNaughton. 

The federal government has awarded contracts of just under $47 million to Arup and Pomerleau for work on the Alexandra Bridge in the National Capital Region.

Ontario is offering more money in a bid to keep automaker Stellantis from pulling out of building an electric-vehicle battery plant in Windsor.