The province is introducing portable skill sets to help speed up certification and training in the skilled trades, without compromising health and safety, it says. Portable skill sets are a new competency-based system to provide workers and employers with more flexibility. Currently, Ontario’s tradespeople are required to master the full... read more →

Agoke Development Corporation (ADC) staged a showcase event in northwestern Ontario to allow mechanical harvesting suppliers and manufacturers to view First Nation trainees at work in the bush. The corporation hosted Tigercat and Wajax Dealer representatives from Brantford, Hearst and Thunder Bay for a demonstration in the Ogoki Forest, 400 kilometres... read more →

Nurol Construction, part of the Nurol Group of Companies (Nurol), took delivery of four new Raimondi LR213 luffing jib cranes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The LR213 has a maximum capacity of 14t and can reach a maximum radius of 55m, from where it can lift a maximum of 2.25t.... read more →

A real estate development firm with several completed projects under its belt and a couple more in progress is setting its sights higher. Brivia Group announced plans May 30 for a 61-storey tower near Phillips Square in downtown Montreal. If completed today, the 220-metre building would be the tallest residential tower... read more →

North American Palladium keeps finding more fertile ground for base metals. The northwestern Ontario miner announced it’s boosting the exploration and drilling budget by $5.7 million due to the increasing number of underground targets being identified. Last February, the company initially said it was setting aside $16 million for exploration expenses... read more →

Scheduled to open later this month, a new retail and office building in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, will not only be the first mass timber building in the city but will be the first multi-story office building in the U.S. constructed with dowel-laminated timber, the Des Moines Register reported. The unique, all-wood... read more →

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) recently released the 2019 Health and Safety Index which indicates Ontario’s workplaces are 1.9 per cent safer than last year, including construction which had the second highest score and was the only sector that saw a year-over-year increase two years in a row. The... read more →

Alamos Gold has been given the go-ahead by the province to expand production at its Island Gold Mine in northwestern Ontario. The Toronto mid-tier miner reported it has been granted an amendment to its operating permits by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks to allow underground mining and milling to increase... read more →