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Housing Industry Has Concerns with New Federal Budget

Mar 7, 2010 19:39 -

Although the most recent Federal budget announcements were mostly met with approval by housing industry analysts, there were concerns that some calls to make housing more affordable were not heeded by Flaherty.
For instance, while the budget retained the first time homebuyers tax credit and the new ceiling on the amount homebuyers can pull from their [...]

Medicine Hat’s Green Plan

Dec 8, 2009 7:27 -

Medicine Hat moves ahead with its own green plan which is a program to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
The city of Medicine Hat is currently looking at updating its own targets what would see a 20% reduction in residential energy consumption by 2020.
It will also be targeting 2025 as the year a quarter of [...]

Funding Provided for Wakamow Valley Trail

Nov 13, 2009 9:51 -

Moose Jaw’s gem, Wakamow Valley will be seeing major upgrades thanks to funding provided from the valley authority, and the federal and provincial governments.
Upgrades will include the rebuilding of the Assinboine Walking Bridge; the retrofitting of the Cree walking ridge for safer pedestrian access and upgrading the pathway linking the two bridges.
The contribution made by [...]

Saskatchewan and Manitoba Set to Spend Most Renovations in Canada

Oct 23, 2009 5:00 -

Homeowners in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are planning to spend on home renovations despite of the slowing economy according to a recent Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) survey.
The RBC survey found that 73% of Saskatchewan and Manitoba plan to make renovations on their home within the next two years. The report goes on to say that [...]

New Affordable Housing in Grunthal

Oct 21, 2009 9:55 -

On October 16th, 2009 ground was broken on a new complex for senior housing in Grunthal, Manitoba.
Funding in the amount of $2.7 million has been made available for the initiative through Canada`s Economic Action Plan, as many of you might know this is the federal government’s plan to stimulate the economy and create jobs during [...]

British Columbia Partnership for Social Housing Renovations

Oct 17, 2009 5:46 -

The Government of Canada and Government of British Columbia have announced on October 14th 101 renovation and retrofit projects totalling $177 million. This is cost shared under the Housing Renovation Partnership, a jointly funded program to renovate and retrofit social housing over the next two years; this will be creating an estimated 1,130 jobs.
Federal funding [...]

British Columbia Receives Funding

Sep 25, 2009 9:25 -

It has been several months since the federal government has announced a portion of the $35 billion stimulus package will be going to provinces.
We should be seeing construction projects across the province of B.C., since the deal has been finalized with Ottawa to get more than $1 billion in stimulus funds.
During that time, approximately 400 [...]

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