Tag: U.S.-Canada

Gordie Howe International Bridge

Opportunities and Challenges for Transportation Infrastructure Policy in 2026

  • February 18, 2026
To ensure commercial real estate developers can build the communities of our future, all levels of government must ensure proper maintenance of and investment into transportation infrastructure. A lack of coordination between the levels of government and internationally poses a threat to major infrastructure projects, which require years of planning and stability to complete. However, recent regional success stories provide reasons to be optimistic about the future of transportation infrastructure.
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NAIOP Hosts Inaugural Public Policy Summit in Canada

  • November 5, 2025
NAIOP chapter leaders and executive directors from across Canada traveled to Toronto in late October for the first Canadian Public Policy Summit, hosted by NAIOP Corporate. The two-day summit provided chapter leaders with the opportunity to have open and engaging conversations with national policy and opinion leaders on issues of importance to commercial real estate and the development community.
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Canadian federal government building

CRE as a Catalyst: Jobs, Investment and Policy in a Shifting Canadian Economy

  • October 20, 2025
At this year’s NAIOP CRE.Converge conference, Peter Norman, Altus Group vice president and economic strategist, had the opportunity to share new insights on the economic impact of Canada’s commercial real estate sector. The presentation drew on fresh research prepared with the NAIOP Research Foundation and comes at a critical moment: when macroeconomic uncertainty, demographic shifts and policy decisions are reshaping the environment in which CRE operates.
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Ryan Severino

U.S. and Canadian CRE: Diverging Trends, Shared Headwinds

  • September 10, 2025
The commercial real estate landscape in 2025 is being shaped by an unusual mix of macroeconomic headwinds, policy uncertainty and emerging growth opportunities, said Ryan Severino, chief economist and head of research at BGO, in his keynote remarks at CRE.Converge this week in Toronto.
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Canada’s Federal Policy Shifts and What They Mean for CRE

  • September 9, 2025
A new prime minister, major housing initiatives and rising trade tensions with the U.S. are reshaping Canada’s policy landscape. At CRE.Converge in Toronto this week, Barry Campbell, president, Campbell Strategies, and Natalie Dash, principal, Campbell Strategies, unpacked what recent political shifts mean for commercial real estate – from federal housing incentives to cross-border trade and energy policy.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford

Ontario Premier Calls for Competitiveness, Collaboration and Free Trade

  • September 9, 2025
NAIOP was pleased to welcome special guest speaker Ontario Premier Doug Ford,to the CRE.Converge conference in Toronto this week. The premier shared candid insights on Ontario’s growth strategy, his vision for closer U.S.-Canada cooperation, and his concerns about the impact of tariffs on businesses and workers on both sides of the border.
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U.S.-Canada

O Canada! Guess Who Came to the White House?

  • May 7, 2025
This week, Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney came to the White House to address the mayhem caused by President Donald Trump’s attack on Canada’s longstanding trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico and the president’s provocative comments about Canada’s sovereignty.
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Chris Thornberg

Examining Political Narratives and Economic Realities

  • March 27, 2025
“The first thing I have to talk about today is what we think is happening in our economy,” began Chris Thornberg, Ph.D., founder of Beacon Economics and keynote speaker at I.CON West this week in Los Angeles. “The other thing I'm going to talk about is what's actually happening in the economy today. That is to say, our objective statistical reality. The world I see in the data on a day-to-day basis.”
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