Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) has elected a new president. Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood was elected by members in an uncontested race during NSFM’s…
Saskatchewan’s local leaders now have access to the new Municipal Peer Network to help them resolve conflict or complex issues. The new network connects municipal…
The Yukon government has updated its funding program for municipalities to ensure predictable and sustainable funding over the next five years. In part, the revised…
Montréal Mayor Valérie Plante, and the chair of the executive committee in charge of finance, Benoit Dorais, have presented Montréal’s Three-Year Capital Works Program for…
The Village of Salmo, B.C. has announced the receipt of a grant for $150,000 to cover 100 per cent of the costs of a flood…
An audit of Halifax Water examining its management of drinking water safety was released by the Municipal Auditor General (MAG) on November 10th. In her…
On May 31st, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament for Dufferin—Caledon, Sylvia Jones, brought forward Bill 141, Sewage Bypass Reporting Act, 2017. The bill would see…
The Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) announced today a new initiative connecting municipalities with local environmental experts to assist in…
A Vancouver entrepreneur has commercialized a new approach for treating dairy farm manure and sewage sludge and will be recognized with an award from Mitacs,…
York Region is requesting that the Province of Ontario provide it the same revenue raising powers as the City of Toronto to help service future…
Canada and Saskatchewan have announced the allocation of funding for water, wastewater, and transit infrastructure projects in the province including new and upgraded wastewater lagoons…
A University of Windsor team is studying a biofilm filtration technology to better understand its seasonal versatility in municipal wastewater treatment. Chris Weisener, professor of…
H2O Innovation designs and provides state-of-the-art, custom-built, and integrated water treatment solutions based on membrane filtration technology for municipal
The City of Guelph, Ontario has determined that it will need to dip into reserve funds and scale back on planned projects to cover the…
Whether you consider it a buzzword or a panacea for the world’s problems, big data is a hot topic lately. Simply put, big data analytics…
Municipal wastewater treatment produces vast amounts of sludge that is expensive to dispose. That’s why researchers in from Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia are working…
BIOREM Inc. announced today a new biofiltration media called XLD, the result of five years of extensive research and development with the support of the…