The Municipal PPP Learning Symposium being held at the Toronto Board of Trade on February 7, 2012 will now include a special luncheon address by Louis Bélanger, CFA, FRM Managing Director – Stonebridge Infrastructure Debt Fund I LP.  He will be speaking about P3 finance models and a case study of a recreation facility project.  For details and registration, click here.

Public-private partnerships (P3s) have been successful solutions in the delivery of provincial infrastructure. The municipal sector is now seeking solutions for the renewal of municipal infrastructure including water, wastewater, roads, recreation facilities, municipal buildings, and more. Actual Media has partnered with Parkridge Consulting and trainer Cynthia Robertson to present half-day interactive learning symposiums which have been developed specifically for the municipal sector. These P3 learning sessions are your introduction to the concepts of public private partnerships; key considerations for success; project suitability in the P3 environment; and, critical requirements for implementing municipal P3s.

To register for the next event or for more information, click here.
Contact: Todd Latham, 416-444-5842, ext. 111

The third annual edition of Canadians at Work: 50 International Infrastructure Projects, produced in partnership with Export Development Canada, was circulated with ReNew Canada magazine’s November/December 2010 issue. This year’s supplement included three special features, including a timely article on smart technology development in Canada.

Take a look at our smart, new cover and some sample pages below.

Friends! We’ve changed how we display our portfolio and updated it with some of our recent projects. You can check out the new and improved portfolio pages here and here.

ReNew Canada editor Mira Shenker will be speaking at the Word on the Street festival this weekend. Join her at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 2:15 pm on Sunday. As always, she will be charming and abrasive.

You can find out more at the Word on the Street website.

Update: Here’s a shot of Mira addressing the crowd on Sunday.

If you’re in a reading mood, which clearly you are because you’re reading this, go check out the RIC Centre’s blog for a new post from our very own Miles Baker. It’s about some very basic things you can and should be doing with social media websites.

Also, last April, Miles spoke at the RIC Centre’s breakfast seminar series, Growing Your Business. The morning’s session was on “Optimizing Your Web Presence” and Miles talked about very specific ways small companies and start ups can use social media. RIC has posted video highlights of Miles’ talk on You Tube.

Tweet about it if you like.

To celebrate Monday the 7th of June we’ve updated our web and print portfolios! Click on the respective links to check them out. What’s the occasion? It’s Portfolio Update Day. Don’t forget to call your mother.

Holy Spaceman! With the hire of Monika Warzecha the core staff of Actual Media has ballooned to nine employees. That’s 50 percent more Actuals! Not too many companies can boast that that kind of growth in the last two years.

Monika recently finished a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King’s College in Halifax, and has also spent time working for our good friends at Corporate Knights and Spacing magazines. Monika is Actual Media’s head researcher, working on a number of projects including the 2011 Top 100 Projects supplement.

Welcome.

Actual Media is happy to announce the re-launch of www.top100projects.ca.

The site is one of our most ambitious, unique projects to date. The new site features a complete listing of all Top 100 Projects, an interactive Google Map showing you their location, original articles and news, plus a consolidated news section with RSS feeds from various government and relevant agency news sources. Also, you get to see our publisher and editor in our first-ever video.

So, finally, you’ll be able to rest at night knowing exactly how our publisher and editor sound in person.

On November 12th, the men and women of Actual Media hosted a few hundred of our closest colleagues, subscribers and well-wishers at the Steamwhistle Gallery in Toronto for an evening of political discourse, laughs and beer — not always in that order. To prove it, here are some pictures from our wonderful time.