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British Columbia Wildfires 2018/18: Impact on Forest Industry
The worst of possible bad news has happened and the wildfires across North America this year are as bad or worse than 2017. It looks like the wildfire experts were correct for the past couple of years when they said these epic forest fires are the new normal. Wildfire ecologists in British Columbia have been…
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US Newsprint Duties Cancelled, Funds to be Returned to Canadian Companies
The U.S. International Trade Commission has overturned duties imposed on Canadian newsprint, said the Canadian Press today. The commission says it found that imports of the paper product, part of the wider category of uncoated groundwood paper, do not injure US industry. The U.S. Commerce Department imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties of various levels on…
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Madison’s Announces . . . BC Coastal Log Prices: Monthly
The information tool for your forest management and investment planning decisions. Our *new* monthly log price report is tailored to provide you with vital data about prices of various species and grades of British Columbia coastal logs, for Canadian and international markets, at your fingertips in a timely manner. Order our PRE-PUBLICATION sale and be…
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US Construction Job Openings: September 2017
The open position rate (job openings as a per cent of total employment) for September softened to 2.8 per cent. On a smoothed twelve-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector held steady at 2.6 per cent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
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Canada Investment in New Housing Construction: June 2017
Investment in new housing construction in Canada rose 7.2 per cent from June 2016 to $4.7 billion in June, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. The increase was mostly attributable to higher investment in single family dwellings (+$257.9 million). All but one province saw an increase in new housing investment in June 2017. The largest increase was…
