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Underpinning a recovery – infrastructure elements of the 2021 Ontario budget
The budget allocates significant funds to infrastructure spending, including core investments in transit, highways, schools, hospitals and broadband.
Greek heritage museum gets funding boost
Plans to develop a Greek-Canadian heritage museum got a $325,000-shot in the arm on March 25. Funding from the province will be used create a new community hub in downtown Toronto.
Choice Properties REIT, Daniels Corporation move forward with Golden Mile development
The companies will transform the 67-year-old Golden Mile shopping centre on Eglinton Avenue in Toronto into a mixed-use, mixed-income transit-oriented community. Phase one of the work will include two condominium towers, and a purpose-built market rental building.
Toronto kicks off $1 billion construction season
The $1 billion planned for capital works projects is only slightly lower than the actual spend in 2020. This year marks the second in a row in which the city plans to spend more than $1 billion on its infrastructure works.
Feds fund HVAC training program
An investment of $1.6 million will help to grow a Toronto-based program that connects survivors of domestic and gender-based violence with training in HVAC trades.