By Anna Guy The cannabis market is Canada, still in its early stages as a legal entity, is already showing great growth. When the federal government passed the Cannabis Act in October 2018, Canadians were finally able to legally access recreational and medicinal cannabis. The “second wave” of legalization, which happened a [...]
By Anna Guy Since its inception in 1998, Rigstar has connected people in remote locations with vital telecommunication services, empowering its clients with the ability to safely live and work across North America. Over the course of two decades, Rigstar has emerged as an industry-leading telecom service provider by delivering agnostic fibre, [...]
When Canada’s busiest oil and gas companies need replacement equipment, time is money. With a round-the-clock service philosophy, Alberta-based All Choice Rentals (ACR) has emerged as western Canada’s premier rental houses, offering a complete rental solution to every aspect of the oil and gas industry, from A to Z, when and where [...]
Fred Rogers once advised, in times of strife, look for the helpers. During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, and now in the COVID-19 crisis, among the myriad of helpers you will find Sprung Structures. The Calgary-area company is leading the charge in pandemic response units. Faced with the urgent need for more medical [...]
Moving the World Forward Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, MHI Canada Aerospace, Inc. (MHICA), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is a Tier 1 manufacturer of major aircraft structures and assemblies. MHICA’s facilities include a state-of-the-art manufacture and assembly facility and a supply chain and logistics centre where more than 850 highly-skilled [...]
Montreal’s Groundbreaking New Bus Garage Upon completion in 2022, Montreal’s new Bellechasse bus garage will be the first bus garage in North America to be fully underground! Business Elite Canada interviewed Guillaume Leroux, project manager for Bellechasse bus garage, about the current state of this groundbreaking project. BEC: Please give a brief [...]
Dieppe's Economy and Residents To Delight In Multipurpose Uniplex The largest project in the city of Dieppe, New Brunswick’s history is on track to open its doors for the first time to serve as a multipurpose and intergenerational facility and economic boost to the region. Called UNIplex, after the provincial co-op bank [...]
Province's First Public-Private Project Yields Long-Term Care Home It’s said that good things happen in threes, and that’s just what appears to have happened in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. The construction and opening of a new state-of-the-art long-term care home has created jobs, relieved the health-care system, and marked the completion [...]
Unprecedented investment to improve and rehabilitate infrastructure It’s interesting to consider what the builders of the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site—who spent years of manual labour to create the massive lock system to facilitate transportation of lumber to supply the construction boom in lower Ontario—would think of their creation if they could [...]
Nuclear Power Station Hitting Refurbishment Goals By Tina Costanza Canada’s largest clean-energy project, the decade-long refurbishment of Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, has begun to hit milestones as it boosts Ontario’s economy. The refurbishment marks the first time a project of this scope has been undertaken within the station’s 30-year [...]