The Canadian gov’t declined Mosaic/Steelworkers request for temporary relief on federal log export policy. In related news: BC sawlog prices fell to two-year low in Q4 2019; lumber prices keep rising, home building shifts to lower density markets; and what might the forest products sector look like in 6-months. Meanwhile: Canadian Pacific completes eastern railway expansion; and a look back as Resolute Forest Products marks 200 years.

In Wood Product news: a BC Wood feature video on how the Hazelton Recreation Centre helped rebuild a community; Vancouver’s 9-storey hybrid proposal for Indigenous housing; Toronto’s net-zero Centennial College plan; and France’s proposed mass timber-embracing law. Pushing back on wood are the Portland Cement Association and the Australian Greens. 

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor