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Economy

Is Covid-19 Making Halifax A More Attractive Place To Do Business? HALIFAX — Covid-19 has devastated Halifax’s economy on just about every front, but the global pandemic appears to be pushing more firms to expand and hire in the city. Wendy Luther is the president and...

Development

Plaza Retail REIT launches grocery-anchored Halifax development “Halifax is a growing market that obviously motivated Loblaws and us to move forward with a new development,” Plaza chief executive officer Michael Zakuta told RENX. “Like a lot of Atlantic Canada, it’s...

Development

Residential Highrise On Heritage Property Clears Advisory Committee HALIFAX—The Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee has given its blessing to a proposed highrise development near Cornwallis Park in Halifax. The project will see an eight-storey residential...

Construction

Lumber shortage raises big issues for construction industry There’s a lumber shortage in Nova Scotia and it’s forcing big and small construction companies to make some tough decisions on what jobs they can complete. Some big construction companies are...

Insurance

More class actions headed to court over pandemic business interruption Class actions asserting pandemic BI insurance coverage are starting to mount in the ‘In’ baskets of Canada’s insurance defence bar. Most recently, Koskie Minsky announced July 6 that it will be one...