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Kenora's big downtown construction dig

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

Apprenticeship ratios a struggle for Ontario contractors

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.

New life for cottage country

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.

Stove company stoking the fires of success

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.

Adopting the condo life

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.

Building with energy conservation in mind

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.

In it for the short haul

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.

One-site hospital taking shape

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.

Dynamic Earth's new science focused galleries

A new special exhibits gallery under construction at Dynamic Earth has recently been named the MacLean Engineering Gallery, thanks to a $100,000 donation from their firm. The donation, made Mar.

Attracting a waterfront developer

After 10 years and four unsuccessful attempts to build a waterfront tourist attraction, Sault Ste. Marie is taking another crack at getting something built on its Gateway property. The City of Sault Ste.