By Dave Carpenter Calgary’s Historic City Hall is a National, Provincial and Municipal Heritage Resource. It has stood for 109 years, and after four years of meticulous work on the facility, Darrel Bell’s confident it will last for a hundred more. Bell, the Acting Director of Facility Management for the City of [...]
By Dave Carpenter You can imagine the satisfaction that the project team felt this past September upon the completion of Calgary's Crowchild Trail Upgrades project, one of North America's most innovative transportation construction projects deemed 'never been done before' in the media from the outset. The upgrades stemmed from a multiyear transportation [...]
By Dave Carpenter As Manager, Capital Projects, Town of Oakville, Nick Valerio played a central role in the recent completion of the Oakville Trafalgar Community Centre that’s received high praise in this community west of Toronto. That said, Valerio is quick to point out that the new community centre would have never [...]
By Dave Carpenter L. Nardella Associates Ltd (LNA) has a proven track record for getting the job done and done right. Based in Laval, Quebec, ‘LNA’ has developed a sterling reputation as one of Canada’s most reliable heavy-construction management companies, based on the diversity and scale of the projects they’ve taken on [...]
By Dave Carpenter Upon taking on Library and Archives Canada's new preservation facility project, Nathalie Ethier was so excited; she felt like it was her baby. Except this baby should live for 500 years. Nathalie Ethier is the Project Director, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) for the new, and second, preservation facility [...]
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) on Wednesday posted its third quarterly profit in a row, but said the novel coronavirus was hurting deliveries and lockdown restrictions made it impossible for the electric carmaker to provide guidance for the full year. Tesla said it could not predict how quickly vehicle manufacturing and global supply chains [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was slightly weaker against its U.S. counterpart on Monday, as oil prices were largely unmoved by a landmark deal by OPEC and its allies to cut output. The Canadian dollar CAD=D4 was at C$1.3968 to the greenback, or 71.56 U.S. cents, weaker than Friday’s close of C$1.3953, [...]
(Reuters) - Canada’s main stock index reversed early gains to trade lower on Monday on persisting worries over the economic damage from coronavirus pandemic, although gains in energy stocks after major oil producers agreed to output cuts limited losses. Fears of a deep global recession continue to weigh on sentiment as the health crisis [...]
(Reuters) - Small and medium-sized businesses in Canada, which have been affected by the ongoing coronavirus crisis, will be able to access interest-free loans of up to $40,000 to meet their cash requirements, according to the Canadian Bankers’ Association. Under the new federal plan, businesses will be able to apply for loans online and [...]
TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Many Canadian small businesses reeling from losses due to the coronavirus outbreak may be ineligible for federal government and bank aid designed to help them survive, industry experts say, with several already shuttered or rapidly running out of cash. The measures include a number of government-backed loan options for small businesses, [...]