In this edition:
- Seaway shipments up 1.2%, topping 24 million tonnes since March
- Niagara College expands beverage innovation capacity with major Pilot Plant renovation
- Ford government walks back controversial plan to allow tenant evictions when leases expire
- Government of Canada teases 2025 budget details
- Skyway twinning project listed in Infrastructure Ontario market update
- Canadian Grain Commission will use surplus to avoid new fee increases
- U.S. tariffs caused -7.5% trade falloff in Q2 2025, data shows
- Focus on Human Resources
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Seaway shipments up 1.2%, topping 24 million tonnes since March
Grain continues to drive shipments on the 3,700-kilometre-long St. Lawrence Seaway System, with 7.5 million tonnes transported by the end of September.
Latest figures released by St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. showed overall cargo shipments were up 1.2 per cent. More than 24 million tonnes of cargo has been shipped since the seaway opened in late March.
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Niagara College expands beverage innovation capacity with major Pilot Plant renovation
Beverage innovators across Canada will benefit from Niagara College’s newly expanded Pilot Plant, designed to accelerate product development and help businesses bring new beverages to market with greater speed, safety, and confidence.
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Ford government walks back controversial plan to allow tenant evictions when leases expire
Following outcry from renters and housing experts, the Ontario government is walking back a controversial proposal that could have scrapped the province’s “security of tenure” rules, permitting landlords to evict tenants once leases expire.
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Government of Canada teases 2025 budget details
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Skyway twinning project listed in Infrastructure Ontario market update
Infrastructure Ontario has released its latest Market Update, listing 25 major projects in pre- and active procurement, totalling more than $30 billion in estimated design and construction costs. The update includes 20 publicly announced projects in the initial planning stages.
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Canadian Grain Commission will use surplus to avoid new fee increases
The Canadian Grain Commission will continue to use its surplus to cover budget shortfalls and avoid potential fee increases until 2028. This decision builds on previous measures to bring down costs for the Canadian grain sector while ensuring programs and services continue to deliver results to producers and industry.
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U.S. tariffs caused -7.5% trade falloff in Q2 2025, data shows
Exports (-7.5%) scaled back sharply in the second quarter of 2025, following the implementation of US tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, automobiles and other goods not compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. This was the largest quarterly decline since 2009, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic period. Real gross domestic product (-0.4%) also contracted in the second quarter of 2025 after six consecutive quarters of growth.
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Surge in fake training certificates sparks industry alarm
A growing wave of fake occupational health and safety (OHS) training certificates is raising serious concerns among safety professionals and legal experts across Ontario, with dozens of fraudulent credentials uncovered in recent weeks.
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NOTL development fees about to be significantly increased
The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is looking to substantially increase planning and building fees, as well as introduce several new ones, starting in the New Year.
The increase is an effort to recover the actual cost of processing development applications, councillors learned.
Focus on Human Resources
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