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The National Trust for Canada, a charity dedicated to the conservation and promotion of Canada’s historic sites, has announced 12 finalists for the Next Great Save, a national competition that helps...

AIA Canada Society has announced the recipients of its 2025 Design Awards. The annual awards program advances AIA Canada’s mission to promote architectural excellence and professional leadership...

Canada’s housing shortage is no longer just an affordability problem. It is increasingly a constraint on economic growth, labour mobility, and the ability of cities to function effectively. Despite...

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has launched a national survey inviting architectural practices across Canada to share their perspectives on the Government of Canada’s Buy Canadian...

A new study from Statistics Canada linked a lagging construction industry and small businesses to housing affordability issues across the country. In a study released Wednesday, Statistics Canada...

Build Canada Homes has launched a request for information (RFI) to collect insight from Canadian companies specializing in modular, panelized and prefabricated housing systems. The organization says...

Imagine if we embraced wood as the primary solution for everything we are capable of building tall. As Canada and industry mobilize to scale our national housing stock under Build Canada Homes, I...

The federal government introduced legislation that would enshrine its housing agency as a Crown corporation on Thursday, giving it land acquisition authority as well as the ability to partner with...

The federal housing minister says he wants to ramp up the lagging pace of homebuilding in some provinces by bringing developers off the sidelines and into Ottawa’s affordable housing projects. Gregor...

Whether you currently lack a permanent place to live or are renting and dream of owning your own home, there’s reason for cautious optimism in 2026. Last fall, Prime Minister Carney announced the...

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