Good Morning and welcome to Municipal Affairs Live. Vancouver is a city with enormous potential—and enormous challenges. Housing affordability, homelessness, public safety, infrastructure, climate resilience, and the rising cost of living are affecting residents across the city. The question isn't simply whether we understand these problems. The question is: what are we actually going to do about them? And today, we're having a one-on-one conversation with Dr. Rebecca Hasde

In September, more than 1,400 municipal leaders from across Alberta gathered in Edmonton for the annual Alberta Municipalities Fall Convention. For many of those leaders, the convention was an opportunity to focus on some of the biggest issues facing communities across the province — from collaboration and growth to infrastructure funding, and the unique challenges facing individual municipalities. We caught up with municipal leaders from across Alberta to ask them a few ques

In the Parry Sound District, municipal leadership is about more than what happens inside a council chamber. It's about the roads people depend on, the services communities rely on, and the decisions that shape the future of rural Ontario. For this episode of Cross Border Interviews, we sat down with Township of McDougall Councillor Kathy Hamer, during the 2026 Fall District of Parry Sound Municipal Association. We talked about the realities of serving a local community, the i

Good morning, and welcome back to Municipal Affairs. We’re continuing our special seven-week series looking ahead to the 2026 Manitoba Municipal Election — a series taking you inside municipal government and exploring the people, the positions, and the responsibilities that keep communities across Manitoba moving forward. This special series on the 2026 Manitoba Municipal Election is brought to you in partnership with the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. With candidate

In Ontario's Parry Sound District, the realities of municipal government can be very different from those in Canada's larger urban centres. Here, communities are shaped by rural life, seasonal residents, natural resources, infrastructure needs, and the challenge of providing essential services across a large geographic area. Those issues were part of the conversation at the 2026 Fall District of Parry Sound Municipal Association, where municipal leaders came together to discu

From the largest metropolitan area in British Columbia to the province’s smallest communities and rural electoral areas, mayors, councillors and regional district directors from across B.C. descended on Vancouver this past week to discuss the municipal issues affecting their communities. For many rural and regional municipal leaders, the annual UBCM convention provided an important opportunity to sit down directly with provincial ministers and advocate for the priorities of t