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It was January 30, 2018 when all eyes were on Canada’s busiest transit hub—Bloor-Yonge subway station in Toronto. That’s the day when a vortex of…

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…

A new age for energy

The Canadian energy landscape is undergoing a period of great change, as the move from coal to renewables and the rapid pace of innovation is…

Budget 2018 recap

With $186 billion already committed to infrastructure development in Canada, and no new funds for the Canada Infrastructure Bank, the 2018 federal budget was lacking…

Bringing Quayside to reality

Dan Doctoroff is not a fan of the term ‘smart cities’. The Sidewalk Labs CEO and former deputy mayor of New York City, whose company…

Building a regional transit solution

In November of 2017, the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBoT) released its Superlinx document, providing new ideas for a regional transportation model in the…

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…

Taking politics out of transit planning

On December 17, 2017, the $3.18-billion Spadina Subway Extension officially opened to the public. The six-stop subway extends the Line 1 University Line, providing new…

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…

The new pipeline

Infrastructure Ontario has released its 2017 project pipeline update, with 32 projects representing an estimated value of $15.8 billion. “Our pipeline this year represents the…

Planning for the future

The Blue Mountain Resort near Collingwood played host to the annual Ontario Professional Planners Institute conference in early October. With hundreds of professional planners from…

Out is the old, in is the new

Municipalities have shifted their thinking on the development of community infrastructure, bringing projects back from the outlying areas and back into redeveloped lands in the…

Renewed hope for EA reform

By Andy Manahan and Paul Knowles When a strong political figure like Glen Murray leaves a cabinet portfolio such as the Ministry of the Environment…

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…