The federal budget, like British Columbia’s budget, tabled this week, includes initiatives aimed at helping create the next generation of skilled workers and encouraging investment in Canadian businesses. Investments [...]

Leading up to today’s budget announcement, Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean delivered the throne speech yesterday, talking mostly about Canada’s competitiveness in the global marketplace [...]

British Columbia’s 2010-11 budget contains no new major infrastructure spending, but lots of promises to capitalize on the momentum generated by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Finance Minister Colin [...]

These days, everyone seems to have a revolutionary new approach for bringing communities back to life. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: community revitalization has too long been dominated by narrow [...]

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty along with Ontario's new Minister of Energy and Infrastructure  Brad Duguid wrapped up this week's OGRA/ROMA conference this morning with speeches that touched on similar [...]

Calgary City Council has approved a comprehensive redevelopment plan for the city’s West End. The downtown area will undergo a major transformation over the next 25 years. The canvas of parking lots [...]

The federal government has announced $2.49 million in funding for two projects through Both projects are funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives program. “We’re [...]

Yesterday, Stephen Harper delivered his office’s third economic report since agreeing to issue quarterly reports to get the current budget approved. The federal government’s numbers show that 90 [...]

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 [...]

A new report by the WBCSD Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) argues that recycling concrete reduces natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. Recycling concrete is not a new concept [...]