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Well, it's on. Donald Trump has torn up our trade agreements and we're all figuring out how to respond. Ottawa is seeking input on its retaliatory tariff list...link in our top story below.
- Patrick Flannery, editor
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The federal government has posted a list of proposed items to include in a potential second round of retaliatory tariffs to be implemented at the end of the month if the U.S. government does not lift its across-the-board 25 percent tariffs imposed on March 4. Ottawa is seeking public input on the proposed list until March 25. There is a form to submit feedback on the linked page.
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U.S. 25 percent tariffs (10 percent on energy resources) on all goods imported from Canada took effect March 4. The federal government has immediately applied retaliatory tariffs to $30 billion worth of American imports, with an additional $125 billion on an unspecified additional list threatened for later in the month.
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The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) is disappointed to see that President Donald Trump has made the short-sighted decision to plunge Canada and the United States into an unnecessary, irresponsible trade war that will see notable consequences on both sides of the border.
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The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) is warning that tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will lead to significant price hikes for building materials and substantially raise the price tag of a new home in both the U.S. and Canada.
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Late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once famously declared, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Fasten your seatbelt. It seems we are headed down a familiar destructive path.
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A new report from the Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA) shows that development charges and other infrastructure-related fees and taxes continue to rise across Canada. The latest National Municipal Benchmarking Study shows that fees on low-rise development have increased by an average of 33% in just two years and have more than doubled in some communities.
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Solve Jeff's Dilemma for a chance to win a DEWALT 20V Drill with New Tabless Battery Technology!
Jeff is wondering what to do when Canada's retaliatory tariffs raise prices on his favourite American brands...
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Gil Yaron of Light House is spearheading the launch of the Building Materials Exchange on Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland, B.C., with plans to expand. It’s a website where members can post excess materials from inventory or jobsites and offer them for sale or free to whomever wants them. The important wrinkle is the business-to-business nature of the site, allowing contractors to deal with other contractors and not so much the general public.
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Canada, and especially Ontario, faces a housing crisis in which we are building less than half the new homes each year we are expected to need. But even so, housing starts dropped in Ontario in 2024. Radical action is clearly needed, and RESCON CEO Richard Lyall has some ideas. He joins The Hammer for some tough talk about the need for big cuts to development fees and taxes; new investment in infrastructure; harmonization of codes and standards; slashing of red tape in approvals process; the need to fight U.S. tariffs and more.
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Jared Kress of Metropolitan Floors and Chris Maskell of the National Floor Covering Association of Canada join The Hammer to set us straight on the impact insulation class (IIC) for flooring. This is the number that tells us how much a flooring product prevents sound transmission to the space below from footsteps. Some condo boards and architects are specifying crazy numbers for these ratings, but what you get in a lab is often not what you get in the field. Kress and Maskell take us through how the rating is calculated, what impacts the actual performance in your project and what you need to tell clients who think your floor can be made absolutely silent.
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