"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 [...]

Greying transportation infrastructure in Canada’s biggest cities means an opportunity to create something green in its place. If only it were that simple. Tearing down an existing structure means [...]

New Brunswick’s 2010-2011 budget includes $439.3 million for transportation infrastructure. Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced the capital budget yesterday in the legislative assembly. Landry [...]

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 [...]

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 City of Niagara Falls is getting a new bus system thanks to a joint federal-provincial investment announced this week. The Niagara People Mover project is a proposed bus route that has been [...]

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 [...]

The feds said funding announcements would start to come out ASAP, and it seems to have started. Ottawa is getting $376 million for a variety of public works projects, many of which are in the transportation [...]

According to Export Development Canada (EDC) President and CEO Eric Siegel, Canada’s export credit agency is working with more companies than ever. EDC today announced its combined financing and insurance [...]

Nearly 800 Saskatchewan municipalities will get accelerated funding through the Municipal Economic Enhancement Program (MEEP) funding on a per capita basis by March 31, 2009. The province is dolling [...]