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Quebec fencing contractor fined $65,000 after workers injured in Ottawa
Regional Fence was found to have failed, as an employer, to ensure workers were protected from the hazard of a falling stack of fencing.
Ontario skills training funding not fair or transparent, auditor finds
More than half of the projects Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria.
WSIB to lower average premiums for 2026
The news marks the seventh time in the last ten years the WSIB has reduced the average premium rate, bringing it down by more than 50 percent since 2017.
Construction work wraps up on Confederation GO Station in Hamilton
The station is expected to expand fast, reliable train service across the GO train network and generate nearly half a million more rides annually.
In-office rules for public servants thwarting plan to sell off space, government says
The 2024 federal budget said reducing the federal office footprint would generate "substantial" savings of $3.9 billion over the next ten years, and $0.9 billion per year after that.