Canadians agree: non-profit sector requires stronger government support to address big challenges
According to a recent Imagine Canada survey, most Canadians believe the federal government is not doing enough to help organizations address issues like health care, food insecurity, and climate change.
We need more Alberta in Ottawa
The current Alberta is not well understood in the rest of the country. That’s why we’re in Ottawa this week to tell our story, writes Adam Legge.
Infrastructure
Who can address Canada’s infrastructure needs?
The federal government’s ‘peace, order, and good government’ emergency powers need to be invoked because surely the current infrastructure deficit, combined with the climate crisis, qualifies as an emergency.
Setting net-zero goals is one thing, delivering on them is another
A Concordia University project will offer a blueprint for cities elsewhere in Canada and around the world to develop and test scalable decarbonization solutions that meet their own local targets.
Address the climate crisis through sustainable infrastructure and mitigation, adaptation finance
While there may be no singular solution for climate resilience, it is imperative for world leaders, climate advocates, and sustainability champions to call for a massive increase in funding for climate resilience and adaptation.
Canada’s freshwater: a call for proactive climate-ready infrastructure investment
When a watershed is healthy and maintained, it can minimize climate change risk, support local wildlife populations, clean drinking water, and increase disaster resiliency.
There is no net zero without nuclear energy
To achieve our goals and preserve our climate for future generations, we can’t afford to ignore any clean energy solution.
It’s time for a radical rethink on Canada’s infrastructure planning, but who will have the courage to lead?
Canada’s outdated, siloed approaches to infrastructure management have resulted in fractured, mismatched programs and policies across different ministries and orders of government.
The private-side sewer infrastructure deficit in Canada is a climate change disaster
The federal government can help educate the public around preventing sanitary sewer flooding, and could establish standards for the construction of new sewers at the national level.
