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Reinventing the Canadian Small Town for the 21st Century
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Our Annual State of Infrastructure Report
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Contents
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008
FEATURES
32The State of Canada’s Infrastructure
The industry works to solve unprecedented problems
and overcome funding and knowledge deficits.
By Mira Shenker
36PSAB Learning Curve When does 50 per cent
equal 75 per cent? When engineers and accountants
both tackle the same asset management problem.
By Silbert Barrett
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REGIONAL FOCUS: ONTARIO
12Ontario News Each issue focuses
on a different region of Canada.
14Our Town, Post-Industrial An in-depth look
at three small Ontario towns and their struggle to rebrand
themselves and renew their assets in a post-industrial age.
By Larry Frolick
28St. Catharines: An Image Makeover
RAW Design’s ideal vision for small-town
Ontario in the twenty--first century.
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39Cleaning Up After Copper The Britannia Mine
remediation. By Gerry O’Hara and Barry Azevedo
42Case By Case A look at brownfield
projects across the country.
46Qualifying “Expert” New legislation in Ontario
holds Qualified Professionals accountable for the projects
on which they consult. By Michael Monette
DEPARTMENTS
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4Editor’s Note Mira Shenker plays Where’s Waldo:
Election ’08 Edition
5Letters A Progressive Conservative response to Canadian
“dictatorships,” InfraIndexing, Best of the Web and more.
8Opening Shots New bridge for Quebec,
a $1.9-billion power grid, carbon capture and more.
10ReLocate Jeffrey Steiner, John Jung and
others change jobs in the industry.
50Re: The Law Could you be liable for infrastructure affected
by climate change? By Sabrina Gherbaz and Patricia Koval.
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53Community Profile East Gwillimbury, Ontario.
About the Cover
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Credit: Raw Design & Donna Endacott
Architectural studio raw Design’s
team (pictured here) developed a
concept for small Ontario town St.
Catharines: a principal axis through
the town that links the downtown
core (and river valley and rail
network) to the lake. ReNew Canada’s
designer Donna used their renderings
to create this issue’s graphic cover.
55StormWatch How to write an RFP/RFQ.
By Storm Cunningham
57ReEvents Golf and OPWA good deeds.
58Closing Shot Batten down the hatches,
it’s another 100-year storm. By Todd Latham
September/October 2008 ReNew Canada