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,…

Canada will spend US$1bn on a 10-year project to rebuild the Dwyer Hill Training Centre, home of the country’s Task Force 2 special forces unit. The plan is to replace…

Canadian contractor Aecon has completed the US$175m cash sale of its Ontario roadbuilding subsidiary to Canadian infrastructure company Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Aecon Transportation East (ATE) employs almost 1,000 staff…

Toronto-listed engineer WSP Global has acquired the Quebec building engineering firm LGT, which provides advisory services in the areas of mechanical engineering, electricity, sustainable development, structural and civil engineering. The…

Three consortiums have been shortlisted for a major contract on the C$3.9bn (US$2.9bn) Surrey Langley SkyTrain extension in southeastern Metro Vancouver in the province of British Columbia. The project will…

The Ford Motor Company plans to invest US$1.3bn in converting its Oakville Assembly Plant in Ontario to produce electric vehicles (EVs), CNBC reports.  The 200ha plant, to be renamed the…

A team that includes UK construction company Mace, Canadian consultancy Comtech and France’s Systra has been awarded a delivery partner services by Canadian state agency Metrolinx for the Scarborough Subway…

The design for an expansion of Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has been unveiled by a Canadian and US design team made up of Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects and…

A proposed US$7.3bn LNG project in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has received approval to enter environmental review.

A Canadian First Nation community is seeking damages against Quebec’s state-owned utility for the destruction of its land caused by the construction of a dam in Labrador some 50 years…

Police in Canada have charged a company with criminal negligence after a car accident at a construction site killed six young people. The incident took place in the southern Ontario…

The Connect 6ix consortium comprising Hitachi and Italy’s Webuild has reached financial close on the contract to deliver tracks, trains, systems, operations and maintenance for the Ontario Line, a new…

The state-owned Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will provide US$700m to develop the country’s first small modular reactor (SMR), planned for the Darlington nuclear power station in Ontario. The money goes…

The Canadian government will offer a US$1bn low-interest loan to fund an 11-tower housing project in Vancouver developed by the Squamish First Nation.