RioCan CEO says real estate industry’s norms have turned upside-down | Ontario Construction News

November 03, 2020, by Canadian Press RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust’s veteran CEO said that the demand for space in prime office towers and shopping malls has plunged because the pandemic suddenly turned them into places that customers and tenants “don’t even want to go to.” “Unfortunately … everything that was accepted wisdom in the…

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Canadian economy caps strong third quarter before slowdown | BNN Bloomberg

October 30, 2020, by Shelly Hagan and Erik Hertzberg Canada’s economy recorded what is likely its last strong months of growth in August and September, as the country braces for an end-of-year slowdown. Gross domestic product expanded 1.2 per cent in August, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa. The agency also released a preliminary estimate…

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Meet the Toronto carpenter building insulated, mobile shelters for homeless people this winter | CBC NEWS

October 27, 2020, by Nick Boisvert Khaleel Seivwright, a 28-year-old carpenter from Scarborough is building insulated, mobile shelters for homeless people this winter. The walls of the small wooden structures are lined with a thick layer of fibreglass insulation and have a door, a small casement window and spinning caster wheels at each corner of…

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