Ontario will ban US firms from bidding for public sector contracts, locking American contractors, engineers and consultants out of some US$139.7bn worth of infrastructure projects in the most populous Canadian province.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imported into the US took effect today, with likely cost hikes for construction, and a warning of 100,000 US jobs…

Canada’s immigration minister Marc Miller has announced that foreign registered apprentices will be able to work in the country while completing their studies without having to apply for permits beforehand…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has won a contract to help replace the dysfunctional roof at Montreal’s 55,000-seat Olympic stadium, built for the 1976 Olympics. It will provide mobile cranes for the…

A multinational consortium has won a contract to build a US$5.1bn expansion of the Queen Elizabeth II infirmary in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada’s PCL Constructors and B+H Architects are teaming…

Canada will need to invest more than US$210bn a year to meet its housebuilding targets, according to a report from policy thinktank, the Fraser Institute. The housing market is suffering…

The Canadian government is joining forces with the Ontario provincial government and the city of Toronto to fund a major housing scheme on Toronto’s waterfront. They’ll contribute a combined US$680m…

US house builders have welcomed Donald Trump’s 30-day pause on his plan to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but they urge more dialogue to make the…

Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, announced Saturday, will raise the cost of vital materials used in residential construction and fuel the housing affordability crisis,…

A joint venture led by Systra has won a US$79m technical services contract to prepare a tram system linking the Canadian capital Ottawa in the province of Ontario to the…

A US$1.3bn healthcare campus has broken ground on the shores of Hudson Bay in Canada. The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority redevelopment will provide remote and isolated communities in northern Ontario…

Municipal authority Metro Vancouver has picked a joint venture of Aecom and Jacobs to provide preliminary engineering services for the $7.05bn (C$9.9bn) upgrade of Vancouver’s Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.…

Aecom has won a contract to provide programme management for new water infrastructure in the Peel Region municipality west of Toronto as it prepares for a surge of new housing…

The construction of a US$5.2bn EV battery plant in Montreal could take up to a year-and-a-half longer than planned, Canadian broadcaster CBC reports. The factory was being developed on the…

Residents of the town of Jasper, Alberta are being allowed to return to their homes today to assess damage after out-of-control wildfires ripped through the town forcing an evacuation nearly…

Up to 50% of the buildings in the town of Jasper in the Canadian province of Alberta were destroyed this week as wildfires covering 36,000 hectares in Jasper National Park…

The Canadian province of British Columbia has chosen a team led by French contractor Bouygues to design and build a replacement to the George Massey Tunnel, which carries Vancouver’s main…

Turner Construction has won a US$44m (C$60m) job to build the Dog Guides National Training Centre in Oakville, Ontario, which will train puppies to be guide dogs. The 89,000-sq-ft building…