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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]