Advocacy News
During the week of June 19, debate in the House of Commons will focus on: Bill S-8, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential…
Read MoreA second call for proposals under the Greener Neighbourhoods Pilot Program, focused on demonstration projects, has been opened. This call will support up to six aggregated deep energy retrofit projects in…
Read MoreThe House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance is inviting Canadians to participate in its annual pre-budget consultations process. The Committee intends to table a report on these consultations in the House…
Read MoreThe U.S. Senate on December 8, 2022, confirmed Shailen Bhatt as the nation’s 21st Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The vote came nearly six months after President Biden…
Read MoreWith an initial $80M in funds to soon be made available, the U.S. Dept. of Labor (DOL) has announced that applications will soon be accepted for its Building Pathways to…
Read MoreThe agreement included nearly all the structural components of the BUILDER Act (sponsored by one of the key ceiling negotiators, Rep. Garrett Graves), which APWA President Keith Pugh testified before…
Read MoreSummer Recess on the Horizon—Could There Be a Cabinet Reshuffling? With the passing of the Budget Implementation Bill from the House of Common on Thursday, June 8, it need only…
Read MoreOn June 9, Heath MacDonald, Member of Parliament for Malpeque, on behalf the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, announced a…
Read MoreOn June 8, Jeff Loucks, Chief Executive Officer, as well as Gary Wilson, Vice Chair, and Robert Byers, Secretary of the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated (NICHI), and the Minister…
Read MoreOn June 6, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Her Worship Tanya Thorn, Mayor of Okotoks, and Josipa Petrunić, President and CEO of the…
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