This week, CBC reported on the closure of Highway 417 near Ottawa due to the  collapse of a pipe that created a sinkhole. We’ve seen this before—in fact, Carl Bodimeade reported on two similar incidents [...]

At this week's Urban Transportation Summit, Translink's Ian Jarvis talked about the City's Olympic achievments in the transportation realm. The Games have certainly done a lot for transit in Vancouver [...]

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 [...]

In 2008, national voter turnout reached an all-time low. Only 13,686,146 ballots were cast, the lowest percentage of registered voters ever recorded for a national election in Canada. While there was the [...]

It's been a busy news period for our two most talked-about resources - here are a few links to keep you up to date on the ongoing global discussion: Remember peak oil? Well, it remembers us. The [...]

While there have been a lot of questions about why federal stimulus funding isn't "rolling out" fast enough, almost nobody has examined whether or not it's rolling too quickly. Federal Finance Minister [...]

This morning, the Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP) and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) put on a joint breakfast forum, discussing Ontario's Waste Diversion [...]

We've completed work on our annual Top 100 list of Canada's biggest infrastructure projects (not to mention our entire January/February issue). Subscribers should have it on their desks in early January [...]

Our Choice, Al Gore's new book on climate change, is as much a reference book as it is a call to action.  Over its 400 pages it covers everything from the science and politics of climate change, to the [...]

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 [...]