News releases

Today, the First Vice-president of the Federation of Canadian of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Raymond Louie, responded to the Columbia Institute's report entitled "Who's Picking Up the Tab?", highlighting the municipal leadership in addressing challenges facing Canada's hometowns.

Municipal leaders from across the country gathered this week in Saguenay, QC, for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Board of Directors meeting to discuss solutions to the issues facing Canadians in their hometowns.

Today, Jean-Yves Provencher, Councillor for the City of Saguenay and Board Member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), was joined by FCM President Brad Woodside and the President of Tree Canada Mike Rosen to plant a tree at a ceremony at the Delta Saguenay Hotel.

This morning the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released its final report into the investigation into the derailment of a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train on 6 July 2013, in Lac-Mégantic, Québec.

The following statement was released today by the President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Brad Woodside on the recent floods in several communities of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

This morning FCM's National Municipal Rail Safety Working Group met with Transport Minister Lisa Raitt regarding a series of new rail safety measures announced by the federal government. FCM President Brad Woodside issued the following statement regarding the announcement.

Today, the Greater Victoria Capital Regional District of British Columbia will host the last of a series of local roundtable discussions on housing across the country organized by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) as part of its "Fixing Canada's Housing Crunch" campaign.

The following statement was released today by Brad Woodside, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), at the close of the 77th Annual Conference and Trade show for municipal leaders across Canada.