Category: Housing
From Sawmill To Module: How Canada Can Scale A Low-Carbon Timber Value Chain
Canada’s opportunity in mass timber is not just about building more mills or adding capacity here and there. It is about creating an integrated value chain that runs from forests to finished housing modules. That means linking sawmills, energy systems, adhesives, logistics, and modular factories into a coherent industrial strategy. … [continued]
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Canada’s Timber Moment: CLT As The Fastest Lever for Housing, Jobs, & Climate
Canada is in the middle of two crises that are converging in uncomfortable ways. On one side, housing supply has failed to keep up with demand for decades. Affordability is slipping out of reach for many households, and the workforce that builds homes is aging and stretched thin. On the … [continued]
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Baranyai: Attitudes also a contributor to housing crises
This year, trade instability and high construction costs delivered a tranquilizer dart to the home-building industry.
Letters to the Editor: June 25, 2025
A Free Press reader writes to say he was fortunate to have purchased Tom Benner’s last life-size sculpture, a polar bear.
Goodbye parking lots, hello housing? City politicians await builders’ pitches
Developers will be able to pitch their ideas for housing on a city-owned parking lot in Old East Village this summer after politicians were urged to slow the process down and do more consultation. Initiated by Mayor Josh Morgan through a strong mayor order last year, city hall staff had begun looking at the potential […]