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Rise to power┬áIn just four and a half years, PowerStream has grown to become the second-largest electricity distributor in Ontario. Ben Sansom charts this upward mobility. PowerStream is a household name in the province of Ontario. Providing electricity to businesses and homes in Barrie, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill and Aurora and to seven other communities in Simcoe County and York Region, it is jointly owned by the cities of Barrie and Vaughan and the town of Markham.

Paving the way to the future┬áStoney Trail Constructors is a joint venture formed to build the Northeast Stoney Trail outside Calgary. Keith Regan learns how the public-private partnership design-build-operate approach is reaping savings in both time and cost. Compared to their neighbors to the south in the United States, Canadian government agencies have become far more comfortable with the public-private partnership model of designing, funding, building, and operating highways, bridges and other┬á infrastructure under a single contract.

A matter of tension┬áContracted to build a six-story addition to Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Vanbots Construction is using cutting-edge technology to strengthen the entire structure to withstand seismic activity. Errol Dube explains to Gay Sutton how this is being done. Any pedestrian walking down Murray Street or University Avenue in Toronto would be bound to see the construction work going on at Mount Sinai Hospital. Six new stories, some 150,000 square feet, are being built on top of the west tower, increasing its height from 14 to 20 floors.