A $6.4-million loan for a new wastewater plant on the 1,500-member shíshálh Nation northwest of Vancouver will mean connections for 88 buildings now on septic systems, the Canada Infrastructure Bank said. (The Logic)

Talking point: It’s the bank’s first agreement for a wastewater facility, intended to help the shíshálh Nation replace an obsolete plant with a higher-capacity one that produces cleaner outflow. It will allow more high-density residential development on the First Nation and will also be able to serve new buildings in the neighbouring District of Sechelt. It’s also the eighth under the bank’s $1-billion Indigenous infrastructure stream, which is meant to address a deficit of $25 billion to $30 billion in the infrastructure in Indigenous communities.