Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

The skyrocketing price of lumber is making people think twice about building a cottage. Saltbox is a Halifax-based company that has a sustainable solution to this problem — converting old shipping ...

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