Esquimalt Harbour Projects The Royal Canadian Navy is getting a new parking spot worthy of a first-class modern navy. On the southern tip of Vancouver Island, the Canadian Pacific Fleet finds its home. The naturally deep and well protected harbour has been a continually important military site since the mid 19th century and [...]
Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation In a precedent-setting commitment to experiential learning and environmental leadership, Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation will be the largest net-zero building in Canada. Located at the college’s Fennell campus in Hamilton, Ontario, the Joyce Centre’s finishing sign went up on June 12, and [...]
On April 6, 2018, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and Suncor CEO Steve Williams toured the Suncor Fort Hills facility near Fort McMurray. Located in the Athabasca region, Fort Hills is recognized as one of the best oil sands mining assets in the region. To the crowd at Fort Hills, Trudeau said, “I am happy [...]
By Anna Guy Since 1990, Souls Harbour Rescue Mission (previously Souls Harbour Mission House and Regina Rescue Mission) has provided a safe space and a nice meal for those in need. Original founder Gerri Carroll’s incredible self-reliance enabled her to help up to 60 people a day from her own basement. In 1999, another [...]
Learn, Read, Play, Relax By Anna Guy “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein Calgarians will soon have a library worthy of one of North America’s greatest cities. The New Central Library (NCL), located in Calgary’s East Village, is 240,000-square-feet of [...]
Engineering and Community By Anna Guy A new iconic structure and destination within Victoria’s Inner Harbour. It’s not every infrastructure project that gets the public to come out in the thousands to celebrate. But the March 31, 2018 official opening of the new Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria, BC, drew over 15,000 community [...]
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE IN CLEAN ENERGY By Anna Guy In November 2017, FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility made history by supplying the first shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Canada to China. The shipment is a milestone for FortisBC and dovetails with an extensive expansion of the Tilbury facility. This expansion [...]
The Heart of Innovation By Anna Guy For 30 years, Technoparc Montréal has fostered Montreal's scientific and technological development community by housing high value life sciences, aerospace, ICT and cleantech businesses and research centres in a localized and specialized community. In addition to its Business Centre solutions for SME, Technoparc Montréal has developed [...]
Projects. People. Partnerships. By Anna Guy Building, managing, financing, and enhancing the value of Ontario public assets. It is the largest commitment to infrastructure investment in Ontario’s history. In 2014, the Ontario government committed to a 13-year, $190 billion investment in public infrastructure. The plan is vast in scope: Building or rehabilitating about [...]
The Road To The Top Of The World By Anna Guy At noon on November 15, 2017, 132 years and 8 days after the Last Spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway, the opening of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway, adding to the “nebulous dream” of connecting Canada sea to sea…to sea. The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk highway [...]