• Mattamy Asset Management has appointed Kathleen (Katie) Taylor as its new board chair. Taylor currently serves as chair of Element Fleet Partners and Altas Partners. She also serves as vice-chair of Adecco Group and a director of Air Canada.

• Canadian Utilities has appointed Nancy Southern as executive-chair of its board and Bob Myles as the company’s CEO. Myles will have overall accountability for Canadian Utilities’ businesses – including ATCO Energy Systems in Alberta and Canada’s North and ATCO EnPower in Ontario, Alberta, Mexico and Chile. He will also have oversight of Canadian Utilities’ investment in LUMA Energy, which operates Puerto Rico’s electric transmission and distribution system.

• Tara Brown has been promoted to CEO of Peerage Realty Partners. She will retain her role as president of Peerage Group Sotheby’s International Realty and her place on the executive committee of Peerage Realty Partners. She has held both positions since joining Peerage Realty Partners in June 2024.

• RBC Capital Markets has promoted Yasmin Nassar to managing director and COO of global research. She has been with the company for two decades.

• Amanda Feduc has been named managing director of Colliers’ North York district office in Toronto. She has returned to the company, where she began her commercial real estate career in 2011 before moving to CBRE. In her latest role at CBRE, she served as managing director for Southern Ontario.

• Altus Group has elevated Heather Globush to associate director. She has served as a senior project manager for the past three years.

• Evan French has joined Marcon as director of development after three years at Wesgroup, where he was a senior development manager. Before joining Wesgroup, he was a planner with Sherman Brown.

• Realstar has appointed Randy Hoffman as its new CEO. Hoffman moves to Realstar from Oxford Properties, where he most recently served as the head of its U.S. business. He spent about two decades at Oxford, starting as an investment analyst and advancing to increasingly senior executive positions. Realstar invest in multi-residential, hospitality and alternative assets.

• Avison Young Principal Jeff Flemington will cycle more than 4,000 kilometres across the largely unpaved Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) in support of the Canadian Cancer Society. The five-week solo journey, dubbed Project 55 in honour of Flemington’s age, will take place from May 24 to July 3, covering 4,340 kilometres between New Mexico and Alberta—90% of which is unpaved. The effort pays tribute to Flemington’s colleagues, Sarah Campbell and Kiana Kasaei, and their personal battles with cancer. His goal is to raise $55,000 to support research into brain cancer and breast cancer, the respective diagnoses that have affected Kasaei and Campbell. The fundraising project has secured a 50% matching program through Toronto’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. People wishing to contribute funds can donate through the Project 55 website.

• Abi Bond has resigned as executive-director for the housing secretariat at the City of Toronto. The move stems from her decision to move to B.C.

• Luke Simpson has assumed the role of CEO at his family-owned firm, Cana Construction. He has succeeded his father John, who remains with the Calgary-based company as chairman. Canada was founded by John’s father Jack Simpson, the benefactor of a gymnasium on the University of Calgary campus bearing his name. Luke will also retain his role as Cana’s president, a position that he has held for the past six years.

• Anthem Properties has promoted Jacqueline Lau to marketing director. She served as the company’s senior marketing manager for the past six years. In another move, Anthem promoted Charmaine Liang to senior manager of investment. She previously served an investment manager and real estate acquisitions analyst with the firm.

• Hyvve Canada has appointed Saira Somani as the company’s fractional CFO. She previously served as director of finance and controller at Kenota Health. Before moving to Kenota, she spent about a decade with TD in assistant vice-president and senior manager roles.

• Heather Murphy has joined Kingsett Capital as director of real estate asset management. She moved to Kingsett from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, where she held analyst positions.

• Savills has expanded its Montreal office with a new investment sales team, enhancing its advisory services in the region. Jean-Pierre Gagnon and Robert Metcalfe join as executive vice-presidents, alongside Noémie Lefebvre as senior director and Olivier Dufault-Gagnon as associate.

• The Alberta Real Estate Foundation has appointed Josh Traptow as executive-director. Prior to joining the foundation, he served as CEO of the Calgary Foundation for almost a decade.

• Starlight Investments will serve as the presenting sponsor for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation’s Journey to Conquer Cancer for the fourth consecutive year. The event, scheduled for Sunday, June 15 at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, invites participants to walk or run distances of 1 km, 3 km, or 5 km to raise funds for cancer research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Starlight has been a dedicated partner of this initiative for over a decade, contributing more than $250,000 through employee participation, fundraising, and sponsorships.

• Siskinds LLP has appointed Matthew Wilson as a partner in its London, Ont., office. Since joining the law firm in 2018, Wilson has led the real estate department, focusing on residential, commercial, and complex property transactions, land development, and mortgage financing. Recognized as a certified specialist in real estate law by the Law Society of Ontario, he also serves as an elected bencher of the law society and volunteers with organizations such as Western University and London Health Sciences Centre. Siskinds’ London office has also named Vivian Iron as a partner. Her diverse practice includes real estate.

• The federal government is accepting proposals for the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy’s Investments in the Training Equipment $20-million funding stream. Through funded projects, Ottawa will support the purchase of modern, up-to-date training equipment and materials that meet industry standards, and will help improve the quality of training for apprenticeships in Red Seal trades. “Eligible organizations include unions representing Red Seal trades workers, organizations managing their own training funds, and training providers that provide technical training to apprentices as part of a recognized apprenticeship program or a Red Seal trade,” says the government. There is no end date for requests for proposals. They will be considered on an ongoing basis. Organizations can submit their applications electronically via the Grants and Contributions Online Services (GCOS) portal.

• Unceded: Voices of the Land, a groundbreaking Indigenous-led contemporary architecture exhibition, will be showcased at Edmonton City Centre until June 21. Originally created for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Unceded is the first exhibition of its kind to be presented on the world stage, celebrating Indigenous architecture through the perspectives of 18 Indigenous architects and designers from across North America. More details are available at Unceded.org.

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