Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has shuffled his Cabinet to make up for the loss of George Smitherman and Jim Watson. The move we find most interesting: Scarborough’s Brad Duguid goes from Aboriginal [...]
Posted on 19 January 2010
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has shuffled his Cabinet to make up for the loss of George Smitherman and Jim Watson. The move we find most interesting: Scarborough’s Brad Duguid goes from Aboriginal [...]
Posted on 09 November 2009
Ontario deputy premier George Smitherman will resign from cabinet today and officially start his campaign for mayor of Toronto. At ReNew Canada, we like to know who our energy and infrastructure minister [...]
Posted on 20 October 2009
Yesterday I spoke at inSIGHT’s infrastructure renewal conference in Toronto. The event, co-chaired by WeirFoulds’ Brad McLellan and Aird Berlis’ Doug Younger, featured a panel on sources of and structures [...]
Posted on 08 October 2009
It's official: timelines killed the tunnel to Toronto's Island Airport. But there are some in the industry who aren't too torn up about it. It may have been a hasty plan put together as a reaction to a [...]
Posted on 08 June 2009
Communities across Ontario are getting $3.4 billion in joint federal-provincial-municipal funding for nearly 1,400 infrastructure projects. Federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister John Baird and [...]
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 21 April 2009
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure George Smitherman and Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti attended the opening of a new five megawatt heat and power facility as part of Markham, Ontario's District Energy [...]
Posted on 13 March 2009
Ontario has achieved a first for North America by introducing new electricity pricing to encourage the development of renewable energy. The question is: will this approach do as much to stimulate the economy [...]
Posted on 12 March 2009
The rumours that infrastructure would be a high priority in Budget 2009-and that to cash in, projects needed to be "shovel-ready"-prompted the creation of myriad lists. The Toronto City Summit Alliance [...]
Posted on 26 February 2009
Just as we have a flu season and a mosquito season, we have a burst watermain season in Ontario and we're just now heading into it," says executive director of the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction [...]