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  • The Economy of Place: A Conversation with Zita Cobb

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Zita CobbFounder and CEO, Shorefast Summary Summary In the first in a special series leading up to the Canadian Urban Institute’s upcoming ‘At the Crossroads‘ conference, CityTalk host Mary Rowe resumes her ongoing conversation with Zita Cobb, co-founder of Shorefast (Fogo Island, Newfoundland & Labrador) on the…

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  • Affordable housing for everyone: a conversation with Romy Bowers (CMHC)

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Romy BowersPresident and CEO, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Summary Summary Ours is a rapidly urbanizing world, with the latest UN projections at 70 percent of 9 billion people living in cities by 2050. Underlying that challenging future, neck-and-neck with the climate…

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  • Healthcare and homelessness: a conversation with Dr. Andrew Bond

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Andrew BondMedical Director, Inner-City Health Associates Summary Summary On this episode, the topics of conversation sits at the intersection of mental healthcare and homelessness, with that crossroads now found in the downtown core of communities across Canada and beyond.Host and CUI president Mary W. Rowe takes…

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  • The Case for Conversions

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary In the evolving post-pandemic economy, topping every city’s ‘what’s next’ list is a strategy to revitalize downtown by converting half-empty or vacant office space into multi-use buildings that can include housing. CUI has been researching the challenges and possibilites across Canada, and recently…

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  • The COVID Dividend Pt.2

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary In part two of The COVID Dividend, host Mary W. Rowe is joined by leading urbanists from across the globe to discuss what was learned during the pandemic about making better shared places and smarter decisions.Participants include Dorian Moore (Archive Design Studio, Windsor, ON); Åsa Kachan (Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax,…

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  • The COVID Dividend Pt.1

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary Welcome to a fresh look at our urban future, brought to you by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI). CityTalk: The Podcast explores what’s working, what’s not and what’s next for Canada’s cities.Hosted by CUI president and ‘lead talker’ Mary W.…

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