You drag yourself out of bed for your morning coffee, but the faucet’s dry. And the toilet won’t flush. It’s going to be a really bad day. Beneath our cities lie massive webs of pipes delivering water and removing sewage. They are crucial to our daily lives. But as Greg Wilson reveals, they have been scandalously overlooked and underfunded across Canada. The City of Calgary, C2C Journal found out, has even skimmed more than $1 billion from its ratepayer-funded water utility to spend on other programs. With a spate of recent failures bringing attention to the condition of our local water services, Wilson argues for a dramatic change in priorities at city hall: drop the social engineering and put real engineers in charge.
Wrecking-Ball Revisionism: How Picton, Ontario Turned its Back on Canadian History
Cast in metal and set atop concrete, the life expectancy of a statue ought to be far longer than that of the human being it