Most Montrealers picture bullets flying through the streets, not bricks and mortar, at the mention of Hells Angels, but that’s starting to change. For years, the city was plagued by a biker gang [...]
Posted on 07 January 2010 · Written by Jason Magder
Most Montrealers picture bullets flying through the streets, not bricks and mortar, at the mention of Hells Angels, but that’s starting to change. For years, the city was plagued by a biker gang [...]
Posted on 28 January 2010
The Conference Board of Canada just released a new report on public-private partnerships (P3s). The study, called Dispelling the Myths: A Pan-Canadian Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure [...]
Posted on 26 January 2010
Canadian bioenergy developer Nexterra is moving on to the next phase of a planned combined heat and power (CHP) system for its Product Development Centre in Kamloops. The company has completed performance [...]
Posted on 20 January 2010
Harper’s recent cabinet shuffle makes Stockwell Day Canada’s new president of the Treasury Board, which means the stimulus spending spree is winding down (though some argue almost no money has flowed [...]
Posted on 20 January 2010
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is calling on its members to the residents of Haiti in the wake of what they're calling "the worst natural disaster ever to hit the Americas." In a recent release [...]
Posted on 19 January 2010
Remember when Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty called municipal leaders “pothole fillers and whiners?” It was our favourite sound bite of 2009. Well, the City of Charlottetown now has a machine [...]
Posted on 19 January 2010
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has shuffled his Cabinet to make up for the loss of George Smitherman and Jim Watson. The move we find most interesting: Scarborough’s Brad Duguid goes from Aboriginal [...]
Posted on 18 January 2010
Integrated Team Solutions (ITS) has won a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new Waterloo Region Consolidated Courthouse. As the preferred proponent, ITS is in the process of negotiating [...]
It's been a busy news period for our two most talked-about resources - here are a few links to keep you up to date on the ongoing global discussion: Remember peak oil? Well, it remembers us. The [...]
While there have been a lot of questions about why federal stimulus funding isn't "rolling out" fast enough, almost nobody has examined whether or not it's rolling too quickly. Federal Finance Minister [...]