Construction

The explosion of interest in Timmins' tradespeople has created ripple effects in the city's educational sector, with the two public colleges both seeking to move forward on multi-million-dollar expansions.

The ongoing four-laning of Highway 69 between Sudbury and Parry Sound will save lives, move freight faster and if any road in Canada needs it, says Manitoulin Transport president Gord Smith, 69 is it.

Every summer tens of thousands of Winnipeggers flock to cottages and weekend homes in the Kenora area.

While he faces many difficulties in growing his contracting firm, Kenora’s Gregg Bowman says that Ontario’s restrictive apprenticeship ratios in particular are choking his ability to expand.

The four-laning of Highway 69/400 and the consumer demand for retirement and small town living has breathed new life in the cottage country community of Parry Sound.

Amidst the cows, goats and sheep of Scott Willis’ sleepy farm on Manitoulin Island, you’ll find welding tools, drill presses and corrugated steel, all part of a growing multi-fuel stove manufacturing business.

Condominiums and apartment for active elderly residents are coming into vogue in North Bay. New developments are filling up or are poised for construction on the waterfront and the desirable Trout Lake Road area.

Sudbury based construction company Taylor Made Homes is looking for its most recent building project to receive the prestigeous EnviroHome designation, making it the third home in Ontario to receive that designation this year.

Whether a northeastern Ontario short-line railway servicing Sault Ste. Marie exists in 2009 may depend upon the results of contract talks with Algoma Steel.

When Guy Logan of EllisDon agreed to head Phase 2 of construction on Sudbury's one-site hospital, he didn't realize he was stepping into “a political maelstrom.