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Budget 2019 receives positive reaction from construction sector

Budget 2019 has earned a mainly optimistic reaction from Canada’s construction industry. On March 19, Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled the last budget before Canada’s next federal election....

Canada triples deduction for construction equipment purchases

Canada will implement a new incentive for the purchase of construction equipment. The federal government has called for incentivizing capital investments by tripling the first-year...

AED asks Canada to adopt accelerated equipment depreciation

The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) is calling upon Canada’s federal government to consider tax incentives that would boost heavy equipment sales. On Oct. 26, AED...

Steel tariffs will ‘wreak havoc’ on equipment manufacturers: AEM

Tariffs on steel and aluminum will jeopardize many of the 1.3 million jobs that fall within the equipment manufacturing industry, according to Dennis Slater,...

UPDATE: Canada slaps tariffs on American steel

Canadian steel will now cost more in the United States ... and vice versa. Today, Wilbur Ross, the United States Secretary of Commerce, announced the...

Trump administration urged to permanently exempt Canada from steel tariffs

The Associated Equipment Distributors' (AED) and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' (AEM) have partnered to urge the Trump administration to permanently exempt Canadian steel...

Recruit millennials with these 6 technologies

As the construction industry evolves, it will need to embrace more innovation to entice millennials to the jobsite — and those even younger —...

A historic AED Summit

The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) have elected their first female chairperson. At the AED Summit, held in Las Vegas from Jan. 16 to 18, the...

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