The City of Calgary is no longer able to afford the cost of the CTrain Green Line project, following a “significant scope change” by the provincial government.
Speaking Wednesday, Mayor Jyoti Gondek said the city received a letter from the province outlining the scope change.
“We can no longer be the order of government that is holding the debt financing and all of the financial risk on this project,” Gondek said.forced the city to adapt their plans for Phase 1 of the Green Line project over the summer, announcing that the line would be multiple stations shorter than planned.Phase 1 of the project was supposed to cost $5.5 billion for an 18-kilometre stretch from Eau Claire to Shepard in the Southeast.
"A change in the delivery model employed by the city will not, in and of itself, impact the grant funding, subject to the receipt of further details on the proposed delivery model," Devin Dreeshen wrote on July 29.Bank of Canada cuts key interest rate to 4.25 per centNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pulling his party out of the supply-and-confidence agreement that's helping keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minority Liberals in power.
A call about a suspicious vehicle ended with a Ford Bronco sitting atop a Peel police cruiser at a Tim Hortons drive-thru in Mississauga Tuesday.NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pulling his party out of the supply-and-confidence agreement that's helping keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minority Liberals in power.Police in Halton Region are investigating after an Oakville resident was hit in the face with a hammer during a home invasion.
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