Closed
Ministry of Highways (SK)
Saskatchewan is planning a new freeway around Saskatoon and wants your input on Phase 3 of the design. This phase focuses on where to put interchanges, railway overpasses, and flyovers. The full plan should be ready by 2026, but there's no timeline...
Why This Matters: Live in or around Saskatoon? This freeway could change your daily commute. It'll affect traffic patterns, noise levels, and property values across the region. If you have opinions about where interchanges should go—or shouldn't—now's the time to speak up.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Planned
Calgary, AB
Calgary is creating a new master plan for how the city grows, builds, and moves over the coming decades. The City Building Program includes three major initiatives: the Calgary Plan (the city's highest-level planning document), a new Zoning Bylaw...
Why This Matters: Live in Calgary? This will affect where homes get built, how tall buildings can be, and how you get around. Whether you're a renter hoping for more affordable options, a homeowner worried about neighbourhood changes, or a commuter stuck in traffic, these decisions shape your daily life for decades...
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Edmonton, AB
Edmonton wants to know where you feel unsafe walking, biking, or driving in Callingwood South. The city is planning traffic calming measures—things like speed bumps, better crosswalks, or new signage—and they want residents to pinpoint problem spots...
Why This Matters: Walk your kids to school in Callingwood South? Worried about speeding cars on your street? This is your chance to flag the exact spots that feel dangerous. The city will use your input to decide where to put traffic calming measures in 2026.
Community Planning
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam asked residents how the city should spend money on services like drinking water, garbage collection, roads, and parks. The consultation is now closed. On December 2, 2024, Council approved the 2025-2029 Five Year Financial Plan based on...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This budget affects your property taxes and the services you use daily. Drinking water, garbage pickup, road repairs, parks—it all comes from this plan. Rising costs are squeezing the city too, so trade-offs had to be made.
Budget
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
Closed
Burnaby, BC
Burnaby has adopted its new Official Community Plan after three years of public input. The plan guides where housing, businesses, and parks can be built over the next 25 years. It doesn't change current zoning—your single-family home stays legal—but...
Why This Matters: Live in Burnaby? This plan shapes what your neighbourhood could look like in 2050. Thinking of selling your property someday? The new land use map might affect its future value. Worried about housing costs? The plan prioritizes affordable housing choices. Concerned about climate change? It guides...
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Winnipeg, MB
Winnipeg spent nearly five years developing a master plan for its transportation system. The goal? Get half of all trips made by walking, cycling, transit, or ridesharing by 2050. Council adopted the plan in June 2025. Now the city is working on...
Why This Matters: Live in Winnipeg? This plan shapes how you'll get around for the next 25 years. Commute by car? The city wants to make transit and cycling more attractive alternatives. Walk or bike? Expect safer routes and better infrastructure. The plan also aims to cut serious traffic injuries by 20%.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Ministry of Municipal Affairs (AB)
Alberta asked residents about protections for people buying newly built homes. The province wanted to know if current warranty requirements and builder licensing rules are working. This engagement ran from November to December 2022 and is now...
Why This Matters: Buying a new home is one of the biggest purchases you'll ever make. If something goes wrong—foundation cracks, leaky windows, faulty wiring—you need warranty protection that actually works. This review looked at whether Alberta's rules are doing enough to protect buyers from shoddy construction.
Policy & Studies
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
Closed
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (Federal)
The Town of Sussex, New Brunswick wants to build a permanent flood control system. The plan includes two diversion channels that would redirect water from Trout Creek and Parsons Brook around the town during floods. It also involves a two-metre...
Why This Matters: Live in Sussex or nearby? Flooding has been a recurring problem. This project could protect homes and businesses from future flood damage. But diverting water affects ecosystems and could shift flood risks elsewhere. If you've dealt with flooding here, your experience matters.
Environmental Assessment
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Closed
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (ON)
Ontario wants to replace its current environmental assessment process for municipal projects with a simpler, faster system. The new rules would focus only on drinking water, wastewater, and shoreline projects. Other municipal infrastructure could...
Why This Matters: Live in a growing Ontario community? This affects how fast new water systems, sewage plants, and waterfront projects get built near you. Fewer environmental reviews could mean faster construction—but also less scrutiny of impacts on local lakes, rivers, and drinking water sources.
Regulations & Permits
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Closed
Government of Québec (QC)
Quebec wants to require owners of large buildings to report their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions annually. Starting in 2027, buildings over 5,000 m² or with 50+ units would need to declare their energy use. By 2028, smaller...
Why This Matters: Live in a large apartment building? Your landlord might soon have to track energy use. That data could eventually lead to building performance ratings—like energy labels on appliances. For tenants, this could mean pressure on landlords to improve efficiency. For building owners, it's new paperwork...
Regulations & Permits
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Closed
Waterloo Region, ON
Kitchener wants to make it easier to build affordable housing. The city is proposing grants to help homeowners add rental units and to encourage developers to include affordable units in their projects. One program would cover up to 100% of...
Why This Matters: Struggling to find affordable rent in Kitchener? This plan could mean more rental units in your neighbourhood. Homeowners could get grants to build basement apartments or backyard units. If you're a renter watching costs climb, more supply could help stabilize prices.
Community Planning
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities
Closed
London, ON
London has approved a 25-year plan for how people will get around the city. The Mobility Master Plan covers roads, bus routes, bike lanes, and sidewalks through 2050. It's the city's first fully integrated transportation plan. The consultation is...
Why This Matters: Live in London? This plan shapes your commute for the next 25 years. It decides where new bike lanes go, which roads get widened, and how bus routes change. If you've ever been stuck in traffic on Wonderland Road or wished for better transit options, this is the blueprint.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Calgary, AB
Calgary is updating its Accessibility Policy and creating a new Accessibility Plan. The goal? Remove barriers in city spaces, services, and programs for people with disabilities. This includes sidewalks, transit, parks, recreation centres, and how...
Why This Matters: Use a wheelchair? Have a visual impairment? Care for someone with a disability? This shapes how you'll navigate Calgary's sidewalks, transit, parks, and city services for years to come. Even if you don't have a disability now, most of us will experience one at some point in our lives.
Policy & Studies
Housing & Communities
Justice & Rights
Closed
Kelowna, BC
Kelowna has developed its first comprehensive water plan covering how the city uses, protects, and shares water. The plan was adopted in April 2025 and includes 40 actions across short, medium, and long-term timelines. The Okanagan has one of...
Why This Matters: Live in Kelowna? Your water comes from Okanagan Lake, which doesn't always refill enough in dry years. The region uses more water per person than almost anywhere else in Canada. This plan affects everything from your water bills to whether you can water your lawn during summer droughts.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Closed
Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam has adopted its Climate Action Plan with 45 actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The plan covers five areas: transportation, buildings, consumption, environmental stewardship, and city leadership. While it maps a path to 2050, the...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This plan shapes how you'll get around, heat your home, and handle extreme weather for the next decade. It could mean more bike lanes, stricter building codes, and new programs to help you cut energy costs.
Community Planning
Environment & Climate
Housing & Communities
Transportation
Closed
Coquitlam, BC
The City of Coquitlam has finished gathering public input for its 2026-2030 financial plan. The survey is now closed, but you can still watch Council budget meetings on October 29-30, 2025 and review the draft financial plan. The city is trying to...
Why This Matters: Live in Coquitlam? This budget decides what you pay in property taxes and utility fees next year. It also determines which city services get funded—parks, roads, recreation programs. With costs rising, the city is weighing service cuts against tax increases.
Budget
Finance & Consumer
Housing & Communities