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 [...]

Some good background on Bill 185 (Environmental Protection Amendment Act) from Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault. At yesterday's Canadian Urban Institute Urban Leadership Series session, everyone [...]

My return visit to Stockholm begins in style, as I am whisked from the airport to downtown at 200 km per hour on the Arlanda Express, a privately operated high-speed electric train that runs from the international [...]

Last July, when I asked the Canadian Wind Energy Association's VP of Policy Sean Whittaker about barriers to wind development, he didn't mention legislation. "Transmission is the issue," he said. That [...]

This Thursday, leaders in the GTA's restorative development industry gathered to support plans to develop a 700-acre global centre for restoration/revitalization research and training at Seneca's King [...]

The Swedish Trade Council and the Embassy of Sweden, in co-operation with Canadian Urban Institute are inviting delegates to participate in a business mission to Sweden to learn firsthand how municipalities [...]

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Large-scale urban revitalization is too often a chicken-or-egg story in Canada. A major redeveloper comes to town, promising a large project that might turn around the community's fortunes. In the [...]

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The city of Doha, Qatar, across the Persian Gulf from Dubai, is a perpetual construction site. At a recent presentation on airline Air Emirate, one speaker, based in Doha, said he was out of town for a [...]