JASON ROWE AND PALS BOUGHT A SECOND MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE.

  

CARPENTERS BOUGHT SECOND MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR HOME IN 

$2.5-million, $4-million homes purchased 14 months apart

Jack Hauen

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The Carpenters’ Regional Council purchased another home north of Toronto, and is currently trying to sell it.

A numbered company controlled by union leadership bought the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house in Nobleton in January 2024 for $2.489 million.

The purchase came just over a year after the same numbered company bought another, $4-million home three kilometres away. That house was used by the Carpenters’ Regional Council’s (CRC) top leader, Jason Rowe, and his wife, The Globe and Mail reported last month.

It is unclear how the $2.5-million home was used.

The CRC did not comment by press time.

Situated in the upscale Gates of Nobleton neighbourhood, the 3,524 square-foot home has a three-car garage, 20-foot family room ceilings, a professionally landscaped backyard and a finished basement with its own kitchen and laundry room, according to real estate listings.

On Thursday, the house appeared as though it had not been occupied in recent days. Flyers were stuck in the door jamb, and a newspaper on the driveway was one week old.

While the $4-million home has been rented out, the $2.5-million home is currently for sale, for the same amount the union paid. The listing has been up since February.

Land transfer documents show that Rowe, the CRC’s executive-secretary treasurer, signed off on both the initial purchase and the transfer to the union’s corporation.

Both homes were transferred to the union-owned Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. on the same date in May 2024, each of their property records shows.

The numbered company also bought a $38.9-million commercial building in Vaughan in December 2023 to serve as the union’s head office and training centre.

The training centre is about a half-hour drive from both homes in Nobleton.

At the time of the $2.5-million home’s purchase, the numbered company was directed by Rowe, his wife Stacey Rowe (then known as Stacey Kerr), and the CRC’s general counsel, Mark Lewis, who died in the summer of 2023.

The numbered company’s current directors are Pasquale Bono, Ontario residential coordinator and financial secretary for Carpenters' Local 27; CRC regional manager Kurt Kashuba; Cynthia Sisconetto, the union’s director of investment portfolio management; and Tomi Hulkkonen, a local coordinator for local 494 in Windsor, who died in January. These directors were named on Nov. 8, 2024.

On the same day, the same four directors took over the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp.

Previously, the directors were Rowe, Lewis, CRC chief of staff Tom Cardinal, and Ottawa local area manager Rod Thompson.

U.S. Department of Labour records show the Ontario-based wing of the Carpenters’ union was put under a trusteeship by its parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA), in April 2022 to “correct corruption or financial malpractice.” The trusteeship ended in November of that year.

After The Globe and Mail revealed the $4-million home, the CRC once again went into trusteeship under the American parent union. The Globe reported that the UBCJA is investigating the issues raised in the article.

The CRC is a major supporter of the Progressive Conservatives and has been one of the top beneficiaries of the Ford government’s controversial Skills Development Fund (SDF). The group, its locals and training centres have received tens of millions of Labour Ministry grants, funded by provincial taxpayers, over the last few years.

The CRC was the recipient of the largest SDF grant in the fifth and most recent round at $14 million.

In May 2024, the carpenters’ union hosted a fundraiser that banked Labour Minister David Piccini’s riding association almost $120,000.

Two months later, the Ministry of Labour started accepting applications for the fifth round of Skills Development Fund grants. Premier Doug Ford’s office announced early in 2025 that the CRC would receive $14 million from the SDF’s fifth round, plus another $13 million through the program’s capital stream. The union published a news release celebrating the “unprecedented” amount of funding it received.

Days later, Ford called an early provincial election. One week before the Feb. 27 voting day, the Carpenters’ Regional Council announced that ”for the first time ever” it was endorsing Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives.

 

THE GLOBE ALSO RAN A STORY ON THE SECOND HOUSE 

 

CONSTRUCTION UNION FACING PROBE BOUGHT SECOND HOUSE FOR $2.5 MILLION 

JEFF GRAY 

 

 

One of Canada’s largest construction unions, which is facing an internal probe after The Globe and Mail revealed it had bought a $4-million house north of Toronto for the use of its top official, also purchased a second home, for $2.5-million, just minutes away.

The Carpenters’ Regional Council (CRC) was placed under the supervision of its U.S.-based parent union earlier this month after The Globe reported that its executive secretary-treasurer, Jason Rowe, had lived in the $4-million home for two years along with his wife, Stacey Rowe, who was also a senior union official.

Property records show that the same numbered company that purchased the first home in Nobleton, Ont., in November, 2022, also purchased another nearby house for $2.489-million, in January, 2024. Mr. Rowe and his wife were both listed as directors of the numbered company at the time, and Mr. Rowe was listed as acting for the company on both transactions.

The two properties were transferred for $0 to the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. that year. The union has said it owns both that corporation and the numbered company, but has not explained the reason behind the transfers or the use of the numbered company.

A spokesman for the CRC did not respond to e-mails this week asking questions about the second house – including who lived in the second property, which is now listed for sale. According to the real-estate listing, it has four bedrooms, five bathrooms and a family room with a 20-foot ceiling.

Mr. Rowe could not be reached Friday.

The CRC, which is based in Vaughan, Ont., and says it has 60,000 members in 30 locals across Ontario and Western Canada, oversees hundreds of millions in pension funds and has received millions from the federal and Ontario governments for skills-training programs. Under Mr. Rowe’s leadership, it endorsed Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives for the first time, just before the 2025 election.

Earlier this month, The Globe reported that the executive board of the CRC had voted to place itself under the supervision of its U.S. parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

In a letter to union leaders obtained by The Globe, the U.S. parent union’s general president, Douglas McCarron, said the organization would conduct an internal probe into the newspaper’s revelations about the Ontario-based branch’s purchase of the $4-million home. Mr. McCarron could not be reached Friday.

The union has acknowledged that Mr. Rowe and his wife lived in the $4-million property from 2022 to 2024. It was later rented out.

The Globe reported last month that the union’s executive board was not told about the house and its intended purpose and did not vote on the purchase, citing a source familiar with the union’s decision-making. The Globe did not name the source because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the union’s internal matters.

After first telling The Globe that the $4-million home “was not purchased for the use of any one person,” the CRC later said the house was needed, on a short-term basis, for Mr. Rowe, who lived in Manitoba before being brought in to lead a restructuring of the Ontario-based organization.

The CRC said the decision to purchase the first house “was disclosed to members of our executive board” and “approved through our established governance processes, including oversight under the organization’s bylaws.”

But the union did not directly answer questions on whether the executive board had voted on the purchase, or provide details of what it says was disclosed.

At the time of the purchase of this first house, the CRC was also under a form of supervision known as a trusteeship, imposed by its U.S. parent. This allowed for Mr. Rowe to be installed as executive secretary-treasurer and left control of the CRC with him and a handful of appointed trustees.

Neither the CRC nor its U.S. parent have answered questions about this previous trusteeship. According to a disclosure document filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, the April, 2022, it was imposed to “correct corruption or financial malpractice.” But the document provides no details of any allegations or what was done to address them at the time.

 

I AM SURE IT IS ALL LEGIT.MAYBE THE COUNCIL WAS GETTING INTO THE AIR BNB RACKET'S

 

 THE RUMOR MILL IS ACTIVE  AND OUT AND ABOUT TODAY .DID JASON ROWE AND OTHERS INCLUDING TOM CARDINAL RESIGN????

 THIS WAS POSTED ONLINE.AT THIS POINT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CONFIRMATION BUT IS WAS NOT POSTED ANONYMOUSLY

 

AT THIS POINT ITS JUST A RUMOR BUT WE SHALL SEE