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  • Unraveling the Gordian Knot – The need for place-based approaches to address national and local challenges

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Despite challenging and financial governance arrangements, local solutions are being incubated constantly in Canadian communities all the time, but we lack the kinds of connective tissue we need to effectively plan and implement across municipal boundaries and sometimes competing jurisdictions.…

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  • A Shared Challenge

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript The challenges that cities face in Canada and the United States have many similarities. But our federal governments are responding quite differently. Hear from Marion Mollegen McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Community Planning and Development at HUD, and…

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  • What’s At Stake – Canada’s future will be won or lost in our cities

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Every challenge facing Canada manifests most acutely where most Canadian residents live: food security, adapting to climate change, creating job and wealth building opportunities, settling newcomers, decarbonizing our economy, providing mental health and housing support. Almost every metric of success presented in ministerial mandate letters for the…

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  • The Kind of ‘Problem’ Canada’s Cities Are

    https://youtu.be/ja9Z96urkmc Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Canada is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, with over 80% of the population living and/or working in an urban community of more than 5000 people. However, policy and investment decision-making by both the public…

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  • Our Case for Place: Highlights from the Evergreen Conference

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuxidr3qYok Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 Key Takeaways A roundup of the most compelling ideas, themes and quotes from this candid conversation 1. Be a worm: the local-scale multi-solver Jen Angel, CEO of Evergreen, calls for attendees of the Evergreen…

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  • National Housing Accord – a strategy to end Canada’s rental housing crisis?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBKFZJNCH4k Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 Key Takeaways A roundup of the most compelling ideas, themes and quotes from this candid conversation 1. The need for a national blueprint. According to Dr. Michael Brooks, chief executive at REALPAC, the work…

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