Sunnyside Flood Barrier Project
We're investing in Sunnyside, Hillhurst and along the Memorial Park Corridor to increase flood resiliency and create spaces that enhance the connection with the river, community and natural environment, while commemorating our heritage.
McHugh Bluff slope remediation project
McHugh Bluff slope remediation is now completed. The pathway between 5A Street and 6 Street N.W. has been reopened since Friday, August 15, 2025.
Sunnyside Flood Barrier Project
We're investing in Sunnyside, Hillhurst and along the Memorial Park Corridor to increase flood resiliency and create spaces that enhance the connection with the river, community and natural environment, while commemorating our heritage.
Every city has one. A piece of public art that cost six figures, sits at an intersection nobody asked for it, and becomes a punchline instead of a point of pride.
The intentions are good. Sister city agreements, arts funding requirements, cultural development mandates—these exist because cities recognize that aesthetics matter. Public spaces should inspire. Art enriches communities.
We've been told for decades: recycle your bottles, save the planet. Blue bins became civic virtue signals. We sort diligently, feel good about it, and assume our plastic bottles become new plastic bottles.
They usually don't.
And that's not necessarily a problem—if we're honest about it and build systems that work with reality instead of against it.
When you recycle a PET beverage container, several things work against it returning to the beverage shelf:
Polymer Degradation
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Floods, wildfires, ice storms, heat waves, hurricanes—Canada’s landscape is beautiful, but it comes with risks.
Natural disasters and climate emergencies are no longer “once in a century” events—they’re happening more often, with greater force, and affecting more people. From the Prairies to the Maritimes, climate change is amplifying the stakes for communities, emergency responders, and every Canadian.
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Our throwaway culture has filled landfills, choked waterways, and wasted valuable resources—but there’s a better way.
Waste management and the circular economy are about more than just recycling bins; they’re about rethinking our whole approach to stuff: how it’s made, used, and what happens when we’re done with it.