September 3, 2010
Today’s jobs market report may provide spark of confidence for the U.S. economy, especially its workers and consumers, CanaData chief economist Alex Carrick says in a new post.
September 2, 2010
Genivar Income Fund has acquired Pryde Schropp McComb Inc., an Ontario-based firm specializing in engineering for the aviation industry.
September 2, 2010
RONA Inc. has announced plans for two new 100,000-square-foot Reno-Depot stores in Quebec, at a total cost of approximately $50 million.
September 2, 2010
Canada and the U.S. have been in recovery since the third quarter of 2009. However, the pace of growth has slowed in both countries, Alex Carrick notes in his latest blog post.
September 2, 2010
Construction company Aecon Group Inc. says its infrastructure division has been awarded a $32.9-million contract to expand Highway 11, near North Bay, Ont.
September 1, 2010
Construction spending in the U.S. tumbled in July to the lowest level in a decade, as the housing market struggles in the weak economy.
September 1, 2010
The federal government said Wednesday it will fund infrastructure improvements at Huron County Gaol National Historic Site of Canada.
September 1, 2010
Construction employment declined in 276 out of 337 U.S. metropolitan areas between July 2009 and July 2010, new federal employment data shows.
September 1, 2010
A 45-year-old Newfoundland man is dead after being pulled into a rock crusher at a gravel pit.
September 1, 2010
Bird Construction Income Fund announced Tuesday that a subsidiary of the fund has been awarded a contract to upgrade the Athabasca water treatment plant, located in Fort McMurray, Alta.
August 31, 2010
U.S. economic growth in 2010’s second quarter has been revised down to 1.6% by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, raising the spectre of a double-dip recession.
August 31, 2010
Enerkem Inc., a waste-to-biofuels company, has begun construction on what the company says is the world’s first municipal waste-to-biofuels facility.
August 30, 2010
WorkSafe BC is investigating the cause of an Aug. 27 crane accident that killed a 55 year-old man and injured another at a housing construction site in Burnaby, B.C.
August 30, 2010
The envision Group says its subsidiary LandEx Construction Inc. has been awarded $1 million in new contracts in Ottawa.
August 27, 2010
A police bomb squad had to be called to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found an old, inert torpedo.
August 27, 2010
Total construction starts in Canada through July of this year were up 73 per cent in square footage and up 70 per cent in dollar volume versus the first seven months of last year.
August 27, 2010
Toronto city council has approved Waterfront Toronto’s selection of international real estate firm Hines to develop the Bayside site into a mixed-use community.
August 26, 2010
After recovering a million jobs from January to May of this year, the U.S. economy has shed 350,000 positions in the latest two months, June and July.
August 26, 2010
Canada’s largest private-sector power company plans to build a $900-million hydroelectric plant in southern British Columbia, with two provincial agencies as partners.
August 26, 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday ordered the government to suspend the clearing of a forest in the Moscow region.