Month: June 2019

OTTAWA – The House of Commons has passed a motion declaring a national climate emergency, and supporting Canada’s commitment to meet the Paris Agreement emissions targets. Conservative MPs voted against the motion, but it still passed 186-63 [...]

How do we simultaneously design for the extremes of a changed climate and build in a way to reverse those changes? At the 2019 Green Building Festival, a range of expert designers and builders will look at both simple and complex strategies, [...]

The federal government says thousands of Toronto-area families could get a hand onto the property ladder under a new shared-equity mortgage program even though it limits the maximum eligible home value to $560,000 — a tough price point to hit in [...]

This Friday, June 21st, is the deadline to submit your nominations for the 2019 Ontario Home Builders' Association's Awards of Distinction. Since 1991, OHBA Awards of Distinction (AoD) recognizes the creativity, innovation and talent of land [...]

OTTAWA—A Liberal MP from Toronto is urging the federal government to ramp up its fight against climate change, and on June 5 tabled a bill in the House of Commons that would commit Canada to effectively eliminate national greenhouse gas emissions [...]

Canada’s energy efficiency sector accounted for more than twice as many jobs as oil and gas in 2018, with 436,000 permanent positions, and is on track to create about three times as many new positions as fossils are at risk of losing in 2019, [...]