Build Canada Homes will operate as a centralized agency to oversee new affordable housing programs at the federal level. As Carney noted, the agency will “supercharge housing construction across Canada,” by helping to build supportive and transitional housing in collaboration with other levels of government, while also expanding “deeply affordable and community housing.” Through partnership with private developers, the goal is to build more homes for the working and middle classes by approving construction on public lands and through the...

New York City is taking construction safety and wellbeing to a new level thanks to “landmark legislation” that intends to address suicide risk and preventative training for the construction industry in the state. The legislation proposes that construction workers and supervisors carrying Site Safety Training (SST) cards on sites that require building permits complete additional training dedicated to mental health and wellness, including suicide risk and prevention as well as substance misuse education, to help tradespeople recognize warning...

Citing attacks on skilled trades funding, Canada’s largest construction union, the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), has formally withdrawn from the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), which is a blow to the province’s labour movement. According to a statement issued by Joseph Mancinelli, LiUNA’s international Vice President and Canadian Director, the OFL and Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) have attacked the fund “under the guise of protecting colleges,” and criticized these politically motivated attacks...