The extension and renovation of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), designed by Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects, has been announced. The OpenROM project will refurbish 86,000 sq ft of space…

Infrastructure Ontario and Trillium Health Partners have picked Canadian firm EllisDon for a US$958m contract to finance and build a hospital extension in Etobicoke, the suburb between the neighbouring cities…

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have chosen a team led by Austrian contractor Strabag to design, build and finance a section of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto. The main…

Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Province-owned company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will…

Contractor Pomerleau has started building a 14-storey mass timber and steel building at the University of Toronto. The 77m-high “Academic Wood Tower” near the intersection of Devonshire Place and Bloor…

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have picked Italian contractor Webuild and Spain’s FCC to build a portion of the Ontario Line, a mass transit system under construction in Toronto. The two…

Japanese automotive company Honda is considering building a $13.8bn EV complex in Canada, reports Nikkei Asia. The project, which may include a battery factory and an assembly plant, would be…

The Canadian city of Calgary has approved plans to build a US$880m biofuel plant developed by Green Impact Partners. The company said the decision followed two years of technical and…

The government of the Canadian province of Ontario this month promised legislation that would ban employers from requiring Canadian work experience in job advertisements and application forms. The law is…

Dutch architect MVRDV and Canada’s Diamond Schmitt have designed a building for the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus. The project will give the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health…

Canadian architect Provencher_Roy is toasting the completion of a pair of bridges it designed in Montreal made with concrete 10% comprised of ground, recycled glass. Calling it a world first,…

The province of British Columbia has shortlisted three consortia to design and build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel on the southern outskirts of Vancouver. The US$3bn tunnel, first…

Swedish battery maker Northvolt has announced plans for a $5bn lithium-ion gigafactory near the Canadian city of Montreal. The Northvolt Six plant will be capable of producing 60GWh of cells…

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has won a C$141m initial works contract to prepare for a C$1.2bn cathode-active-material plant in Bécancour, Québec that will produce components for Ford electric vehicle batteries.

Construction work at Vancouver International Airport has been paused after the discovery of artefacts belonging to the Musqueam first nations group. The pieces are reported by Global News Canada as…

Three consortiums have made the shortlist for a programme of rail work that aims to improve service between Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough and Toronto, adding 1,000km of track…

A team led by Denmark’s Dorte Mandrup Architects has won a competition to design the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre, to be built in the Canadian city of Iqaluit. The 5,500…

Aecom has appointed Eduards Miska as director of engineering in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Based in the Victoria office, he brings 30 years of experience with the…