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Construction in North America to fall less than expected in 2020: GlobalData
GlobalData has revised its forecast for North America’s construction…
Back to legacy: Tidman Construction building quality homes and lifelong relationships
For more than 70 years, Tidman Construction, now a…
Home Hardware announces retirement and new appointment to leadership team
Home Hardware Stores Limited has announced the retirement of…
B.C. begins new round of affordable housing projects
Government officials in B.C. are asking non-profit and Indigenous…
ULI to host #PulseCheck: Canadian Market Update webinar
Join ULI’s Canadian District Councils (Alberta, British Columbia, Ottawa…
FAO to release review of time-of-use electricity pricing decision
On Friday, May 22, 2020, the Financial Accountability Office…
BuildCenter offers free COVID-19 health screening app
As the construction industry reopens in California and across…
Back to Work Virtual Summit
COVID-19 has shut down large parts of the Canadian…
The Hammer COVID SPECIAL: Get It Delivered – Eamonn O’Rourke, RenoRun
We’re changing how we do things on jobsites: keeping…
The Hammer Special COVID-19 episode: How Are We Doing and Where We Are Going Suzanne Bernier, SB Crisis Consulting
Pandemic response expert Suzanne Bernier joins Canadian Contractor editor…
Federal government announces rent relief for small businesses
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that an agreement…
The Hammer Special Pandemic Episode: Pandemic Payment UPDATE – Bonny Koabel, AKR Consulting
Government funding guru Bonny Koabel updates listeners on the…
The Hammer episode #1: CERB Your Enthusiasm: Government relief for small businesses and how you can get it
Bonny Koabel from AKR Consulting joins Canadian Contractor editor…
Jimmy Valgakis’s third hunger strike against Ontario’s WSIB
Yes, a hunger strike, in 2015 – in Toronto. Whatever you think of Jimmy Valgakis’s claims, at least the man is drawing the media’s attention to the incompetence, greed and double-talk that the WSIB has sadly become…
Workplace Safety Comes to Mississauga, Ontario
January 28, 2015 – Canada’s largest and longest-running health…
RONA contractor shows 2015. Win a Sprinter!
Win a Mercedes Sprinter, meet your peers and get to know your local RONA dealer at a 2015 RONA Contractor Show near you
Our website is being renovated: Thanks for your patience
A high proportion of our almost 600,000 website visits last year came from cellphones. So we are making our site much more phone-screen-friendly.
Ontario MPP introduces bill to enforce 'prompt payment' by developers to contractors
Bill 69, the Prompt Payment Act, is a private members’ bill intended to get developers in Ontario to pay their contractors on time. The withholding of holdbacks would be curtailed, if the legislation were to be given teeth. But right now, it’s nowhere near becoming law.
Should contractors use Build.com to buy home improvement products online?
Can online buying compete yet with your local lumber and materials dealer?
Revolution software
BuildTools is about to change the way renovators run their businesses and Dwell Design Build Inc. of Toronto is its first beachhead in Canada.
Meetings…what a waste!!
Actually, meetings are critical to work flow and morale. Here’s how to make them productive.
The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road
The following is the second in a four-part series…
The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond
Before growing from $2 million per year to $3 million and beyond, a contractor needs to make sure his business is running at a very profitable level.
Contractor Roundtable, Part 2: Regulations and the underground
In April of this year, six contractors from across…
Greek Lesson
I find it strange. When it comes to the…
