Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Health takes front seat in Ontario budget
Less than three months before the June 7th election, the Liberal government in Ontario delivered its 2018-19 budget, focused heavily on improving health care, child…
Infrastructure
Newfoundland and Labrador releases its 2018-19 budget
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is committing $619.7 million of its annual budget to infrastructure in the province, with significant investments continuing in the…
Alberta releases its 2018-19 budget
The Government of Alberta is focusing on strategic investments, eliminating waste, and charting a path towards a balanced budget as it works to recover from…
Newfoundland-Labrador announces funding for municipal capital works
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is investing $10.6 million in municipal capital works as a part of its three-year municipal infrastructure program. As a result…
Nova Scotia releases its 2018-19 budget
Delivering its third consecutive balanced budget, the Government of Nova Scotia has released its funding plans for the 2018-19 fiscal year with the formal delivery…
Islands of Good in the GTA
As a rapidly growing Toronto struggles to keep pace on the development of affordable housing, day care and other vital services, there’s a potential solution…
Canada signs infrastructure agreement with New Brunswick
Premier Brian Gallant and federal Infrastructure and Communities Minister Amarjeet Sohi have signed a bilateral agreement that will provide more than $673 million over the…
Emir named chair of CCA
The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) has appointed Zey Emir as chair of the 2018 board of directors at its annual general meeting. She takes over…
67 new infrastructure initiatives receive federal funding
The Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have announced funding for 67 initiatives in communities across Canada through three programs: the…
Manitoba delivers 2018 budget
The Government of Manitoba has introduced its budget for 2018, introducing tax cuts for small and medium-sized businesses, new investments in school construction, and funding…
Scheer disappointed with Budget 2018
Two days after the release of Budget 2018, it was clear that Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer was less than impressed with what…
New report touts need for national urban strategy
Canadian city regions would benefit from a national urban strategy, that would support long-range infrastructure planning and funding to accommodate growth, according to a new…
New Brunswick commits $670 million for bridge infrastructure
The Government of New Brunswick is investing $670 million in bridge restoration and construction around the province over the next five years. “Through our multi-year…
ReNew Canada’s 2018 outlook
If anything can be said for the year that was in infrastructure, it’s that we enter 2018 with more questions than answers for so many…
Building Ontario’s infrastructure
The infrastructure silo has come down in Ontario. The release of the new Long-Term Infrastructure Plan (LTIP) for Ontario has signalled that the needs to…
Building for success
By John Haasen and Colin Smith. Having the right person manage a construction project is vital to its success. But the support system we build…
Call for submissions for Top100 Projects report
ReNew Canada is making an open call for submissions for the 2018 Top100 Projects report. The 2017 report had an overall value of over $186…
The wisdom of green infrastructure for Manitoba’s future
As the Manitoba Government contemplates the shape and form of its carbon pricing and green plan, heeding the words of perhaps our greatest public intellectual…
Ambrose critical of federal budget
The Conservative Party is speaking very critically of last week’s budget introduced by the federal Liberal government. Speaking at the Toronto Region Board of Trade,…
Breaking down Budget 2017
The infrastructure money train looks primed to leave the station in Ottawa, even if people aren’t quite sure when and how those dollars will be…
Opposing views on private infrastructure funding
*The following is CUPE national president Mark Hancock’s Closing Shot on building infrastructure with private funding, which appeared in the January/February 2017 edition of ReNew…
FCM Leadership in Asset Management Program (LAMP)
What happens when you bring 12 municipalities of varying sizes and experience together, in one room, to work towards the common goal of integrating sustainability…
Road tolls are inevitable for Toronto and Canada
When Premier Kathleen Wynne closed the door on Toronto Mayor John Tory’s plan to toll the city’s two main arteries to downtown – the Gardiner…
For whom the road tolls
Toronto has a traffic problem. And it has a money problem. And the two problems are rapidly colliding. The GTA is growing by 110,000 people…