Transit
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Ontario Town Counts on Transit, Urban Design to Protect Rural Flavour, Prevent Sprawl
Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the garden city movement of the early 20th century, Israel’s cooperative moshavs, and the annual Burning Man ... -
Engineering Study to Map Out High-Speed Rail from Quebec City to Toronto
Via Rail and the Canada Infrastructure Bank have set a March 31, 2021 deadline for final engineering for a high-speed passenger rail line along ... -
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Cut Carbon by Giving Citizens More Transportation Choices, Veteran City Planner Urges
A key step in getting Canadian urbanites out of high-emitting cars is to shed the notion that roads are natural habitat for cars alone ... -
CanadaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentJobsOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil SandsTransit
McKenna Pledges Fast Action on Infrastructure Through a ‘Climate Lens’
Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna donned a hard hat for her first major speech in her new portfolio this week, telling the Federation ... -
CitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsEnergy Access & EquityHuman Rights & MigrationJurisdictionsPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsTransit
‘Ridiculously Effective’ Transit Discount Boosts Low-Income Access
Eighteen months after the City of Toronto dropped transit prices for low-income riders, the numbers are in, and they prove that cheaper transit enables ... -
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A 2030 Vision: Here’s What Life is Like if We Win on Climate
Far lower CO2 emissions, cleaner air and water, less meat on the dinner table, and less spending on consumer goods are key features of ... -
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Solnit: From Online Networks to Urban Congestion, Silicon Valley ‘Fuels the Climate Crisis’
From enabling the rise of climate deniers like Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, to boosting the powers of the surveillance state to ... -
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Election Post-Mortems Point to Conservatives’ Climate Problem, Urge Massive Federal Investment in Carbon Reductions
In the wake of last week’s federal election results, two different clean transition organizations are pointing to the climate policy problem now facing Conservative ... -
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Canada’s Climate Change Election Failed to Tackle Fossil Industry Dominance, Energy System Transformation
While Canada has just concluded the first election in its history that focused in large part on climate change, the campaign still failed to ... -
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Miller: World’s Leading Cities Show How Canada Can Take Action on Climate
Both veteran legislators and newly-elected Members of Parliament would have stood to learn a great deal from the recent C40 World Mayors Summit in ...
