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Premier Doug Ford was joined by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prince Edward Island Premier Rob Lantz to sign Memorandums of Understanding advancing efforts to knock down barriers to trade across Canada. Ontario now has MOUs with six other provinces coming out of the First Ministers meeting last week.
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Nearly 1,000 workers from the Alliance syndicale de la construction demonstrated in front of the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec (APCHQ) offices to mark the first week of strikes in the residential sector Wednesday.
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MoistureShield has announced a new distributor partnership with Timberstone Distribution in western Canada.
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Over the years, Tom had read that construction has one of the highest suicide rates of any industry and he’d told himself he should keep an eye out for warning signs. But nothing prepared him for the Monday morning when he got the call: Mike, one of his longest-serving foremen, had died by suicide over the weekend.
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New housing legislation passed in Ontario recently by the Ford government is so pivotal. It will calm the waters by putting in place rules to streamline development processes and reduce costs by establishing consistent construction standards across all municipalities.
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Tina is wondering if she should go all-in on business automation. Give your solution to Tina's dilemma for a chance to win a 20V MAX GRABO Lifter from DeWalt.
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Silica is one of the most common hazards at construction sites. Workers exposed to airborne respirable silica are at an increased risk of developing lung diseases like silicosis, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Meghan Friesen, Occupational Hygienist with the Ontario Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, discusses the hazards and health effects of silica, exposures in the construction industry, and the free online Silica Control Tool.
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High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation process has just begun, but it seems likely that some day soon we may see new codes requiring resistant windows, doors and other components in wildfire-prone areas. What might these rules look like? How do we determine if a product is sufficiently resistant to external fires? And what is the science behind making frames and glass that resists fire and prevents heat transfer to the home interior? Robin Urquhart has worked on ...
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The difficulty, expense and delay in getting projects approved has been identified as one of the big reasons Ontario is nowhere near its homebuilding goals and not likely to be any time soon. Enter Arash Shahi and his non-profit One Ontario initiative to offer a database of municipal zoning bylaws and regulations that shows where building can happen and whether your project qualifies. One Ontario has the data and the software tools – what it needs now is provincial backing to legitimize regional planning authorities using it. Shahi explains what One Ontario is, what information it can provide and how it could be part of the path forward to getting this province out of its homebuilding logjam.
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