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Manitoba commits $72.5m for east side road

March 31, 2010 - A road project that aboriginal people on the east side of Lake Winnipeg have been dreaming about for decades is starting to take shape, says a report in today’s Winnipeg Free Press.

$1 billion on infrastructure for Newfoundland and Labrador

March 29, 2010 - Newfoundland and Labrador will spend a whopping $1 billion in the coming year building and repairing its infrastructure, says a CBC news report issued today.

The price of Toronto’s congestion

March 29, 2010 - The Toronto Board of Trade today released Toronto as a Global City: Scorecard on Prosperity 2010. Although Toronto scores second only to Barcelona in labour attractiveness, traffic congestion is a roadblock to its present and future growth.

Toronto house sales offset B.C. declines - nearly

March 15, 2010 - According to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association, seasonally adjusted national home sales totalled 42,799 units in February 2010, edging down 1.5 per cent from January.

Canada is vital to U.S. equipment manufacturers
March 9, 2010 - Data released last week by the U.S. Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) underscores the importance of Canada as an export market for U.S. construction machinery manufacturers.

U.S. construction unemployment rate 27.1%
March, 8 2010 - The U.S. construction unemployment rate jumped to 27.1 percent and construction employment dropped to a 14-year low as another 64,000 construction workers lost jobs in February 2010, according to U.S. federal employment figures released last Friday.

CCA happy with continued infrastructure spending
March 7, 2010 – The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) is very pleased to see the federal government follow through on the second year of the infrastructure stimulus measures from the Economic Action Plan, says a recent Association release.

Hope for U.S. construction machinery exports?
March 6, 2010 – U.S. construction equipment exports dropped more than 38 percent in 2009 compared to the previous year for a total $12.8 billion worth of machinery shipped to other nations, with declines of between nearly 30 to 50 percent for major world regions. South and Central America as well as Asia were among the regions experiencing the smallest 2009 yearly declines.

Wawa trap rock miner searches for a partner
March 2, 2010 - The proponent behind a Lake Superior trap rock open pit mine could begin carving out a granite quarry this year if a new joint venture partner is secured, says a report in Northern Ontario Business.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Improve Efficiency New gear allows the crew at the Walker Aggregates' Severn Pines Quarry to improve efficiency. Click the image for a larger view.