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  • Cement and salt shake off tariffs

    Cement and salt to shake off tariffs

    The United States government is lifting the 50 per cent tariff it has applied on imports of Canadian cement and road salt since Aug. 29.
  • Global NGO pushes for Superior claim

    Global NGO pushes for Superior claim

    “It doesn’t sit well with some egos that the American Falls are kind of nondescript next to Horseshoe Falls so this presents an opportunity to stake out a more impressive namesake,” one observer reasons.
  • Lobbying precedes U.S. cement tariff

    Lobbying precedes U.S. cement tariff

    The new 50 per cent tariff on Canadian cement imports is expected to exert further upward pressure on construction costs in the United States.

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  • Legionnaires

    Legionnaires outbreak renews focus on facility risk

    A recent Toronto Public Health investigation has identified a cooling tower at the Toronto Transit Commission’s Hillcrest Complex as the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak.
  • counter-tariffs

    Tariff pressure intensifies for woodworkers

    Canada’s secondary wood manufacturing sector sees U.S. measure extend beyond previously tariffed finished products into selected furniture, millwork, panels and cutting tools.
  • trade war

    When trade war fallout hits the housing market

    Housing developers already battling labour shortages, high interest rates, and soaring land costs now face a new destabilizing force as the Canada–U.S. trade war disrupts every stage of construction.

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  • Dark edge awaits Alberta and B.C. schools

    Dark edge awaits Alberta and B.C. school days

    Students in Alberta and British Columbia will be starting their school days in the darkness for part of this new academic year once the two provinces transition to permanent daylight saving time.
  • trade war

    When trade war fallout hits the housing market

    Housing developers already battling labour shortages, high interest rates, and soaring land costs now face a new destabilizing force as the Canada–U.S. trade war disrupts every stage of construction.
  • Winter maintenance budgeting gets slipperier

    Winter maintenance budgeting gets slipperier

    A threatened 50 per cent tariff on Canadian road salt imported into the United States is creating winter maintenance budgeting uncertainties on both sides of the international border.