The Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Big Cities Mayors’ Caucus (BCMC) are planning a National Infrastructure Summit for next January. The idea was put forward by Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco [...]

"It's a good budget, but it's not visionary." That’s Cardus’ director of research Ray Pennings’ take on the 2010 Canadian Federal Budget, tabled in Ottawa this week. Pennings says although today's [...]

The Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) must have read our news posting this week which reported on Minister Brad Duguid's warning to municipalities that the March 2011 deadline for stimulus funding [...]

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and the Partners for Climate Protection program (the the Canadian component of ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection Campaign) have released the results [...]

Leading up to the United Nation's COP15 conference in Copenhagen, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has released a new report urging the federal government to partner with municipalities [...]

Over 150 years ago, Canada started to evolve wagon trails into networks of roads, communities developed adjacent to these roads, then communal water and sewage systems were installed. With the age [...]

At last week's Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Whistler, many local leaders stood up during Q&A sessions to point out how badly cities need funding to fix aging and leaky water [...]

Winners of the 2009 FCM-CH2M HILL Sustainable Community Awards were announced this weekend during the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) 72nd Annual Conference and Municipal Expo in Whistler. These [...]

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) just released a new report called Wake-Up Call: The National Vision and Voice We Need for Rural Canada. At a news conference in Ottawa yesterday, FCM's [...]

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 [...]