Friday, May 16, 2025
How local governments are building resilience to climate impacts
By Dustin Carey It is not every day that a small-town mayor is considered a guest of honour at an event involving multiple cabinet ministers…
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State of Canada’s Cities Summit 2024: Investing in Canada’s cities for the future
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is hosting the second annual State of Canada’s Cities Summit 2024, a great opportunity to hear from urban leaders, policymakers,…
Canada’s construction industry unveils critical report on climate resilience
The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) released a new report emphasizing the urgent need for increased investment and stronger policies to protect Canadians and their critical…
Permanent climate-resilient bridges completed on B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced that permanent repairs to Coquihalla Highway 5 are complete after it was washed out during unprecedented flooding…
Federal budget 2023: Long-term investments are needed to fix Canada’s infrastructure gap
By Kerry Black, University of Calgary The federal government’s 2023 budget unveiled investments in infrastructure, with a narrative highlighting resilient and sustainable communities, and pointing to Ottawa’s…
Canada invests in climate change geohazard research in Yukon
Transport Canada announced an investment of $3.4 million under the National Trade Corridors Fund for the Enhancing Yukon trade corridor resilience to northern geohazards project run by Yukon University. “Investing…
Contracts awarded for permanent repairs to B.C.’s Highway 1
The Government of British Columbia announced that permanent repairs to flood-damaged sections of Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon will soon be underway, protecting the…
Climate Change Won’t Wait
Getting started on climate adaptation and resiliency plans By John Estey Climate change is here to stay, and its impacts are creating different challenges for…
New research reveals risk to Canada from droughts, storms could cost $139B
New research, launched by global professional services company GHD titled Aquanomics: The economics of water risk and future resilience reveals that droughts, floods, and storms…
$20M for infrastructure projects across B.C. to build more resilient communities
The governments of Canada and British Columbia announced more than $20 million in joint federal-provincial funding for eight social, transportation, and green infrastructure projects across…
Road resiliency strengthened along B.C.’s Highway 19
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced that work is underway on Highway 19 through Nanaimo and Lantzville to improve the road surface and…
Canada and B.C. invest to make communities more resilient to natural disasters
The governments of Canada and British Columbia announced more than $29.5 million in joint funding to reduce and mitigate the risk of floods and slide…
Report challenges municipalities to prioritize cyber resiliency
By Glenn Miller While the shocking events in Ukraine have raised the public profile of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU)—formerly Ryerson University—Cybersecure…
New measures to address climate change impacts on rail infrastructure
Transport Canada announced two new rail safety measures. One focuses on railway-related fire prevention, while the other improves the resiliency of Canada’s railway infrastructure against…
Government of Canada announces funds for climate resilient infrastructure
The Government of Canada announced funding of $46.7 million for two important climate resilience initiatives; the Climate Resilient Built Environment initiative and the Standards to…
How can we make Canada’s infrastructure more resilient?
Situation Critical Climate change impacts could leave Canadians physically and financially under water as a warming and increasingly volatile climate damages public and private infrastructure.…
Stantec joins global mobility and transportation policy organization
Stantec has joined the Coalition for Reimagined Mobility, a global effort to shape policy for the more equitable and sustainable movement of people and goods…
Report outlines measures to address the challenge of building climate resilient infrastructure
Ontario’s rapidly changing climate will increase the likelihood of flooding, extreme heat and weather events, and power outages in coming decades and the province needs…
SNC-Lavalin and MBC Group collaborate to bolster resiliency of buildings and infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin announced it has established a strategic collaboration with MBC Group, an engineering services firm in Western Canada to address the immediate need to fortify/retrofit…
ONEIA outlines practical measures of building climate resilient infrastructure
Ontario’s rapidly changing climate will increase the likelihood of flooding, extreme heat and weather events, and power outages in coming decades and the province needs…
Data-driven green infrastructure for the future
Schneider Electric has introduced Infrastructure of the Future, an integrated solutions suite tailored to creating smart, green infrastructure. According to the company, Infrastructure of the…
Canada faces important choices to confront mounting disaster risks in a changing climate: report
As the human and economic costs of climate disasters continue to mount, Canada faces a choice. It can continue to respond to disasters as they…
Investment needed to ready Canada’s infrastructure for climate change
A new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, Canada’s independent climate policy research institute, finds that climate change impacts could leave Canadians physically…
Resilient infrastructure funding for BC communities
The governments of Canada and British Columbia announced funding for two disaster mitigation projects in the Lower Mainland Region of British Columbia. These projects will help…