The British Columbia ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has narrowed the field of bidders for a major bridge project in Metro Vancouver to three consortia. The design-build-finance contract for the new Pattullo Bridge that will replace an existing span of the same name between Surrey and New Westminster, B.C. is... read more →

The blueprint for a Green New Deal, recently proposed by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, certainly has succeeded in focusing national attention on the question of how we will battle climate change in critically important years to come. Whatever plan is adopted (or not), preventing a changing climate from... read more →

Sault Ste. Marie’s deputy chief administrative officer Tom Vair says the city is looking to fill about 300 jobs, about 250 of them with Algoma Steel. He says they plan to reach out to the GM employees who will be out of work to highlight the benefits of moving to... read more →

Parry Sound could be the new Canadian manufacturing hub for the SHERP, a rugged, all-terrain vehicle originally conceived in Ukraine. In a Feb. 11 news release, Yuri Pyatkov, CEO of SHERP North America, suggested the company is considering setting up a production facility in the town, located about two hours south... read more →

Headquartered in Edmonton, AB, PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and in Australia, serving a number of sectors, including commercial, institutional, residential, industrial, and civil construction READ HERE

A group of mining supply companies with a strong North Bay contingent will be among those vying for federal government funding as part of a mining innovation challenge. Dubbed “The Paradigm Shifters,” the group is led by iRing, a North Bay company that specializes in blast-planning software specific to underground... read more →

The announcement was made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Maple, Ont. on Feb. 7. The Barrie Corridor project, which runs through Maple, includes the construction of approximately 51.2 kilometres of new track between Union Station and Barrie, train layover facilities and station upgrade READ HERE

Caterpillar Safety Services has announced the development of Cat Safety virtual reality, a new training module customized for paving applications. The new simulation immerses the trainee into a virtual rural highway construction site so they can learn to identify hazards in a safe, controlled environment READ HERE