The Canadian city of Calgary has approved plans to build a US$880m biofuel plant developed by Green Impact Partners. The company said the decision followed two years of technical and…

The government of the Canadian province of Ontario this month promised legislation that would ban employers from requiring Canadian work experience in job advertisements and application forms. The law is…

Dutch architect MVRDV and Canada’s Diamond Schmitt have designed a building for the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus. The project will give the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health…

Canadian architect Provencher_Roy is toasting the completion of a pair of bridges it designed in Montreal made with concrete 10% comprised of ground, recycled glass. Calling it a world first,…

The province of British Columbia has shortlisted three consortia to design and build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel on the southern outskirts of Vancouver. The US$3bn tunnel, first…

Swedish battery maker Northvolt has announced plans for a $5bn lithium-ion gigafactory near the Canadian city of Montreal. The Northvolt Six plant will be capable of producing 60GWh of cells…

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has won a C$141m initial works contract to prepare for a C$1.2bn cathode-active-material plant in Bécancour, Québec that will produce components for Ford electric vehicle batteries.

Construction work at Vancouver International Airport has been paused after the discovery of artefacts belonging to the Musqueam first nations group. The pieces are reported by Global News Canada as…

Three consortiums have made the shortlist for a programme of rail work that aims to improve service between Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough and Toronto, adding 1,000km of track…

A team led by Denmark’s Dorte Mandrup Architects has won a competition to design the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre, to be built in the Canadian city of Iqaluit. The 5,500…

Aecom has appointed Eduards Miska as director of engineering in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Based in the Victoria office, he brings 30 years of experience with the…

UK-headquartered consultant Turner & Townsend has acquired Canada’s Cavalieri & Associates Ltd., a project and development manager specialising in commercial and industrial construction. With offices in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto,…

The Canadian province of Ontario has begun pre-development work with nuclear operator Bruce Power to build the first nuclear reactor in the country in a generation. It’s planned for the…

The Canadian government has agreed to provide a subsidy of US$11.2bn to restart work on a stalled battery factory in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Reuters reports. The project is…

UK headquartered consultancy Mace Consult has appointed David Haywood as business unit director for Canada and commercial director for the Americas. He joins from Stantec, where he was North America…

Work has finished on Canada’s first standalone renewable diesel refinery in Prince George, British Columbia. The US$290m scheme was built by Tidewater Renewables, which makes renewable diesel and green hydrogen.…

French materials company Saint-Gobain is to acquire Building Products of Canada, which specialises in roof shingles and wood-fibre insulation panels, for €925m. The move comes a year after it purchased…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has designed a 4.5ha, off-grid island for British active wear brand Vollebak. Vollebak Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, is accessible by boat,…