This week, CBC reported on the closure of Highway 417 near Ottawa due to the collapse of a pipe that created a sinkhole. We’ve seen this before—in fact, Carl Bodimeade reported on two similar incidents [...]
Mira Shenker has been editor of ReNew Canada since May 2007. She has written articles on a wide variety of topics including financing, green building, governance and foreign investing.
Mira has written 38 posts on ReNew Canada.
Posted on 09 March 2010
This week, CBC reported on the closure of Highway 417 near Ottawa due to the collapse of a pipe that created a sinkhole. We’ve seen this before—in fact, Carl Bodimeade reported on two similar incidents [...]
Posted on 23 February 2010
Greying transportation infrastructure in Canada’s biggest cities means an opportunity to create something green in its place. If only it were that simple. Tearing down an existing structure means [...]
Posted on 23 February 2010
In 2008, national voter turnout reached an all-time low. Only 13,686,146 ballots were cast, the lowest percentage of registered voters ever recorded for a national election in Canada. While there was the [...]
Posted on 16 February 2010
ReNew Canada: How will new brownfield regulations speed the redevelopment process? John Gerretsen: The two-tiered approach allows people to use the programming that’s out there to determine what [...]
Posted on 07 January 2010
If a project is successful, then the owner saves money and the contractor and the designer each get a bonus. Sound good? It’s an alliance, a delivery model that’s been gaining some momentum in [...]
Posted on 14 December 2009
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 [...]
Posted on 08 December 2009
We've completed work on our annual Top 100 list of Canada's biggest infrastructure projects (not to mention our entire January/February issue). Subscribers should have it on their desks in early January [...]
Posted on 09 November 2009
Big water news for California (I know, we're a national magazine in Canada, but I'm covering this!). The Governator has declared that water is similar to energy in that we need to conserve it. It sounds [...]
Posted on 29 October 2009
PPP Canada’s October 30 deadline for round one project submissions is this Friday, which means provinces and municipalities are talking to reporters about which projects they’ll submit. The crown corporation’s [...]
Posted on 21 October 2009
At the same time Prime Minister Stephen Harper was delivering an economic update that amounts to a tentative thumbs up, Liberal infrastructure critic Gerard Kennedy, who participated in ReNew Canada’s [...]