Matthew Gilmore: Royal Canadian Navy

Canada Mortgage And Housing Corp. Dept: The apartment buildings now under construction in Halifax have a total of 2,282 units, says Matthew Gilmore, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. s senior provincial market analyst, according to The Chronicle Herald. There are all kinds of reasons for the rise in the number of apartments being built, but he says it probably isn t the $25-billion Irving Shipbuilding contract to supply combat vessels to the Royal Canadian Navy and halifax is going through an apartment-building construction boom the likes of which the city has not seen since the 1970s. The national housing agency tracks construction from beginning to end, and Gilmore says this is one of the highest apartment unit totals under construction in Halifax that CMHC has recorded in nearly 50 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.