Unpublished Newswire

Condos account for much of the recent uptick in affordability, with 46 per cent of that housing segment valued under $500,000 in 2026, up from 24 per cent just four years ago.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government signalled Wednesday that it’s working towards designating its first set of major infrastructure projects in the national interest by fall 2026, deploying yet-to-be-used powers to grant upfront approvals. The projects themselves are a proposed highway across the Northwest Territories that seeks to reduce travel time, a new road in Nunavut that would connect to a future port in hopes of enabling better shipping access and critical mineral development, plus a geological repository in northwestern Ontario that proposes trapping used nuclear...