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Budget 2010
Budget includes $7.7 billion in infrastructure stimulus funding
The 2010 federal budget charts a path for job growth by staying the course mapped out by the Conservatives’ stimulus plan while limiting government spending, Canada’s finance minister says.
No extension of stimulus project deadline concerns Canadian Construction Association
With no new infrastructure funding for Canada’s construction industry to sink its shovels into in Budget 2010, a concern still remains for stimulus projects currently underway, says the Canadian Construction Association.
Canadian Construction Association taking wait and see approach to Red Tape Commission
Ottawa is looking to slash through bureaucracy by establishing a Red Tape Commission. The government wants the commission to review federal regulations to help reduce compliance burdens and unnecessary regulations.
Canadian Construction Association calls for ‘tapered withdrawal’ of stimulus
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of the federal infrastructure stimulus tap in the shadow of a $39.4 billion deficit is a key item in Thursday’s federal budget, says the Canadian Construction Association.
Highlights from the federal budget for 2010-11
The just released federal budget for 2010-11 contains total spending of $280.5 billion, up $12.8 billion over last year.
| MOST POPULAR STORIES |
- Ontario launches construction workplace safety campaign
- HST good news for ‘legitimate’ contractors
- Transit underfunding in Toronto, Hamilton costing region $3 billion
- Market grows for energy efficient construction trailers
- Role of independent project management firms evolving
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| TODAY’S TOP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS |
These projects have been selected from 282 projects with a total value of $3,305,741,968 that Reed Construction Data Building Reports reported on yesterday.
AIR-RAIL LINK, STATIONS, ROADWORK, BRIDGE
$515,000,000 Province of Ontario ON Negotiated
$100,000,000 Toronto ON Negotiated
CONDOMINIUM APARTMENT BUILDING
$31,000,000 North York ON Prebid
| CURRENT STORIES |
- Archaeological assessments an integral part of pre-construction
- Outland Camps offers flexibility from coast to coast
- VIDEO: Canada’s economy is slowing down
- City of Vancouver report slams botched demolition
- Australian Labor government defends stimulus after allegations of political bias
- Western Construction wins contract for Bonnybrook Waste Treatment Facility
- Stimulus spending on U.S. national parks a major job creator
- Fences provide first line of defence
- Directional drilling less disruptive for locals
- Ontario Brownfield Act to change remediation rules next year
- High-tech surveillance protects construction sites from thieves
- Market grows for energy efficient construction trailers
- Site photographers focus on staying in the picture
- Fast Wrap asset protection firm coming to Canada
- Lack of local workers on Wuskwatim Dam project riles Manitoba union
- Roadwork continues in Burnaby, British Columbia
- Contractor default insurance catches on in Canada
- Construction firms learn to get ‘Bear Smart’
- Qualifications-based selection gains traction with Defence Construction Canada
- Hamilton ready to work with all general contractors, union-affiliated or not
- Worker survives crane rollover in Victoria
- Encana negotiates with China National Petroleum
- Rigger acquitted in New York crane collapse
- Work begins on Lynn Creek Rail Bridge project in Vancouver
| ALEX’S ECONOMICS BLOG |
Reed Construction Data Chief Economist Alex Carrick discusses current developments in the North American economic environment with emphasis on the construction industry.
- Canadian railway freight traffic on a better track (July 28, 2010)
- Waiting to see if the other shoe drops in Canada (July 16, 2010)
- Who wants Canada’s oil? (July 7, 2010)
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