Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Brad Duguid, will be making some big announcements tomorrow. Following Ontario’s big water-related announcement this week, Duguid will announce a [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

Just after she spoke at this year’s OGRA/ROMA conference in Toronto, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Kathleen Wynne agreed to fund OGRA's Municipal DataWorks (MDW) application software. The [...]

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 [...]

Big water news for California (I know, we're a national magazine in Canada, but I'm covering this!). The Governator has declared that water is similar to energy in that we need to conserve it. It sounds [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Proof that sometimes disincentives work better than incentives: Ontario's recent implementation of a five cent charge for plastic shopping bags is creating a change in consumer behaviour. Plastic bag use [...]

The pre-launch materials for the World Bank's new Eco2 Cities program just came in. "Eco2" is the term they are using for cities that have (stop me if you've heard this before) harnessed the synergies [...]