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FCM president focuses on communication in community building

Geoff Stewart has always had a passion for serving his community. He has also proven eager in taking on the types of leadership roles that ...

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Canada’s fire departments facing growing pressures

Canada is currently in the middle of wildfire season. However, while fire services across the country are working to keep wildfires in check, they are ...

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Mayor Laura Cabott: Loving the job, but ready for new opportunities

Laura Cabott loves almost everything about being mayor of the City of Whitehorse. But after some six months of deep thought and introspection, she decided ...

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Municipal World honours 2024 Women of Influence in Local Government

Sheilagh O’Leary, deputy mayor of the City of St. John's, Nfld., has been named as the 2024 honouree of Municipal World’s Women of Influence in ...

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Vancouver’s Gastown goes car free this summer

Part of Vancouver’s historic Gastown neighbourhood is going car-free this summer to make the area more pedestrian-friendly. Over July and August, part of Water Street ...

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Report finds Vancouver, Toronto housing “impossibly unaffordable”

A recently released report on housing affordability has found Vancouver is the least affordable place to have/own a home in Canada and the third least ...

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Public sector sole-source dilemma revisited

In 2011, I wrote an article entitled “The public sector sole-source dilemma,” which was published in purchasing B2B as well as Caveat Emptor. In some ...

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Mayor Sandra Masters: Running to address unfinished business

For several years now there has been a clear trend of incumbent mayors from across the country choosing not to run for re-election. This has ...

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Vancouver, First Nations unveil new UNDRIP action plan

Many communities across Canada recently marked National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 and held events and programs throughout the month about Indigenous cultures and ...

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It’s not just about housing. We need innovations in municipal finance

Canada needs more housing, but to get there, we need the infrastructure – water lines, streets, sewers, storm drains and all the other essential municipal ...

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