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 [...]
Posted on 21 October 2009
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 [...]
Posted on 12 February 2009
Sometimes the internet is a mess. Other days it throws up pieces of information that seem to fit together almost too perfectly. For the second time this month, Ontario's work to encourage renewables [...]
Posted on 08 February 2009
Everyone wants to go green, but nobody wants to pay for it. Owners talk about wanting to incorporate green features in their buildings, but when a construction budget needs to be slashed, green upgrades [...]
Posted on 12 November 2008
Given the localized congestion of utilities under our city streets and highways, locating and mapping their positions can be challenging. When the utilities fail, it's important to determine the location [...]
Posted on 16 October 2008
Enersource Corporation officially dedicated a municipal substation today in Streetsville, Ont. in honour of Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion's 38 years of service as a utility commissioner and board member. Enersource [...]
Posted on 16 October 2008
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has awarded $13,000 to the Métis Nation of Ontario to support its participation in the environmental assessment of the proposed Lower Mattagami Hydroelectric [...]
Posted on 15 October 2008
Today, FCM President Jean Perrault, Mayor of Sherbrooke, Que., issued the following statement on the federal election result: "On behalf of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, I would like to [...]
Posted on 29 September 2008
Larry Frolick interviewed the three mayors of the towns he profiled in our Sept./Oct. issue. Each one had a different — sometimes conflicting — view on how the small town should progress into the twenty-first [...]
Posted on 26 September 2008
Having passed through St. Catharines mostly en route to somewhere else along the Queen Elizabeth Way, I have a hard time forming a mental image of the city beyond a vague memory of a typical struggling [...]
Posted on 19 September 2008
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure George Smitherman announced yesterday an initiative to conduct a scoped review of the enhancement and acceleration of Ontario's renewable energy potential, and the [...]