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What Perennially Higher Interest Rates Could Mean for Nova Scotia Construction

For years, Canadians got used to one broad trend: interest rates kept falling. Mike Moffatt, writing in The Globe and...

25 Sep / 26

Powering Partnerships: NSPI Engages Halifax Developers

by Simon Yammine Nova Scotia Power’s Powering Partnerships Forum, held on September 25, brought together developers, builders, engineers and industry...

25 Sep / 26

Can Buildings Learn to Sweat? New Cooling Materials and an Old Lebanese Wisdom

New coatings can reflect sunlight, radiate heat and even store rainwater to cool buildings without conventional air-conditioning. The science sounds...

19 Sep / 26

From Beirut to Halifax: Peggy Elias, JM Gems in a City Built by Newcomers

After leaving Lebanon in the years following the Beirut port explosion, jewellery designer and gemmologist Peggy Elias began again in...

18 Sep / 26

A Smarter Immigration Strategy: What It Could Mean for Nova Scotia and Construction

Canada’s immigration debate is often reduced to one question: are the numbers too high or too low? RBC’s September 2026...

15 Sep / 26

Canada Needs More Business Investment. But Should Government Pay for It?

In a September 11 Financial Post commentary titled “Fix bad policy if Canada wants investment,” economist Jack M. Mintz challenges...

09 Sep / 26

The AI Jobs Apocalypse Has Not Arrived. But the Boom May Be More Fragile Than It Looks

For several years, one of the dominant fears surrounding artificial intelligence has been that it would rapidly eliminate white-collar jobs....

07 Sep / 26

The Economists Who Saw 2008 Coming Look at Today’s Bond Rout

In an August 24, 2026 article for Project Syndicate, Nouriel Roubini examines the sharp rise in government bond yields across...

01 Sep / 26

Sweden’s Big-State Libertarianism: A Lesson for Canada

An August 2026 article in The Economist describes Sweden through an apparent contradiction. It is one of the developed world’s...

26 Aug / 26

When Machines Become Persons: AI Rights and the Corporate Precedent

Could artificial intelligence become conscious? Nobody knows. Today’s systems can reason and imitate emotion, but performance is not proof of...

15 Aug / 26

Canada Can Build Again

Canada Can Build Again Two recent articles offer a hopeful message about Canadian productivity and entrepreneurship. In “How Canada Rocket...

15 Aug / 26

Deadlines: from New Year’s resolutions to construction projects

A recent The Economist article, “The Delights of Deadlines,” explores something remarkably human: we often need a deadline to turn...

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