Construction

It was a "huge learning curve" for Ontario Northland Railway shop crews to get up to speed on how to rebuild GO Transit's bi-level passenger coaches. But its fleet manager of the Toronto transit authority can't argue with the result.

Proper training is at the heart of every safe workplace, and ensuring that education is in place when on-site contractors are used for a project is crucial for both the client and the contractors themselves, according to safety experts.

Jean-Paul Legault makes for a dizzying high-energy entrepreneur, whose rapid speech and big ideas make way for budding businesses. Legault, owner of Panels & Pipes Inc.

The limping economy may be breathing some cold air onto the red-hot Sudbury housing market, but high-end activity continues to elicit cautious optimism from the city's real estate players.

Increasingly leaner times in Northern Ontario’s key resource industries have barely slowed the record growth seen in the region’s real estate market, which continued to enjoy tremendous success through 2008.

An immigration push by Sault Ste. Marie contractors and labour to attract foreign workers has attracted only a dribble of new recruits from the United States.

North Bay Mayor Vic Fedeli uses his sixth floor "wardroom" perch at city hall to full advantage when meeting with development prospects.

If you aren't getting enough out of your employees, perhaps it's time to look at what you're doing for them, advises the general manager of Levert Personnel Resources Inc.

The latest and greatest vision to develop Sault Ste. Marie's Gateway site into a major tourism draw will be unveiled in December.

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 2486 has turned the sod on a new $1.5 million training centre in Sudbury.