"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 Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is operating under the biggest road-building budget in its history, according to representatives of the ministry who attended the annual meeting of the Ontario [...]

The Conference Board of Canada just released a new report on public-private partnerships (P3s). The study, called Dispelling the Myths: A Pan-Canadian Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure [...]

If a project is successful, then the owner saves money and the contractor and the designer each get a bonus. Sound good? It’s an alliance, a delivery model that’s been gaining some momentum in [...]

In September 2008, the government of Alberta awarded a public-private partnership (P3) contract to BBPP Alberta Schools Limited for its Alberta Schools Alternative Procurement Phase I project (ranked [...]

PPP Canada’s October 30 deadline for round one project submissions is this Friday, which means provinces and municipalities are talking to reporters about which projects they’ll submit. The crown corporation’s [...]

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 [...]

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today announced the appointment of three new directors to PPP Canada. Established to support P3s, $1.2 billion in federal funding was set aside for the crown corporation [...]

More Building Canada funding is being doled out. The latest big announcement should benefit Metro Vancouver residents. "The Evergreen Line demonstrates how our Government's Economic Action Plan is working," [...]

The new Port Mann Bridge will be a single, 10-lane span, according to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Kevin Falcon. Work has finally begun on the Port Mann-Highway [...]