Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Brad Duguid, will be making some big announcements tomorrow. Following Ontario’s big water-related announcement this week, Duguid will announce a [...]
Posted on 11 March 2010
Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Brad Duguid, will be making some big announcements tomorrow. Following Ontario’s big water-related announcement this week, Duguid will announce a [...]
Posted on 10 November 2009
Last week the City of Portland and Multnomah County jointly passed one of North America's most ambitious Climate Change Action Plan (CAP), which commits the city and county to reducing their overall emissions [...]
Posted on 04 August 2009
Several recent events have highlighted how much our communities depend on our infrastructure to enable us to go about our daily lives. In Toronto, two large sinkholes (one five metres in diameter and [...]
Posted on 08 July 2009
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are partnering with EQuilibrium Communities to provide support, including funding (up to $550,000 per project) to private [...]
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 30 April 2009
The Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) will help the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) with its new Municipal Infrastructure Program (ISP). CSA asked the CRWA to get involved with the [...]
Posted on 29 April 2009
Vancouver's Greenest City Action Team has released a report with its recommendations for reaching the city's goal to be "the greenest city in the world by 2020." This is the Team's first report: a quick [...]
Posted on 27 April 2009
Edmonton's new light-rail transit (LRT) line from Clareview Station to South Campus Station is now open. Ranking 51 on our Top 100 projects list, phase one of the $228-million South LRT extension was funded [...]
Posted on 17 April 2009
British Columbia is offering $1.8 million in funding through the Brownfield Renewal Funding Program. Agriculture and Land Minister Ron Cantelon said this week, "Many of us know of a site in our community [...]
Posted on 01 April 2009
The Province of New Brunswick is investing $2.8 million in a new industrial park expected to make Beresford and the Chaleur region more attractive to businesses. Roland Haché, minister responsible [...]