The federal government has now released its own report on infrastructure stimulus funding, likely as a counter to Liberal infrastructure critic Gerard Kennedy’s recent report that charged, among other [...]
Posted on 26 October 2009
The federal government has now released its own report on infrastructure stimulus funding, likely as a counter to Liberal infrastructure critic Gerard Kennedy’s recent report that charged, among other [...]
Posted on 09 September 2009
In recent years brownfields have become a higher priority for all levels of government, but the focus is still on after-the-fact measures. The brownfield component of the federal government’s Building [...]
Posted on 08 September 2009
March 2011 With 20 months to go before the 2011 deadline to complete stimulus-funded projects, is the plan working the way the federal government had hoped? Some participants said that municipalities [...]
Posted on 08 June 2009
Last Friday, $125 million in infrastructure funding for a roadwork, water, sewer and other projects were announced for Saskatchewan. Premier Brad Wall and Saskatoon Rosetown-Biggar MP Kelly Block announced [...]
Posted on 13 May 2009
Ontario's minister of energy and infrastructure, George Smitherman, and federal transport, infrastructure and communities minister, John Baird, wrote a letter to Ontario's head of council on May 11 to [...]
Posted on 12 March 2009
We seem to be in the midst of an infrastructure epiphany. You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing investment in infrastructure discussed as the cure for our global economic woes, or at least something [...]
Posted on 27 February 2009
More Building Canada funding is being doled out. The latest big announcement should benefit Metro Vancouver residents. "The Evergreen Line demonstrates how our Government's Economic Action Plan is working," [...]
Posted on 09 October 2008
Canadians concerned about our cities were doubtless disappointed by the Leaders Debate last week, and won't get much satisfaction from the long awaited Conservative platform that came out yesterday. It's [...]
Posted on 29 September 2008
Since the Building Canada Plan was announced in Budget 2007, Infrastructure Canada has not changed its message — in fact, they've tried twice to submit a letter for our readers, but have nothing [...]
Posted on 19 September 2008
Yesterday, reports the Toronto Star, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion promised to spend $70 billion over 10 years on Canada's aging infrastructure, a move celebrated by Toronto Mayor David Miller and other [...]