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Our series of online, candid conversations brings together city builders of all stripes to discuss what’s working, what’s not and what’s next for urban communities across Canada.

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March 28, 2024
How investments in main streets support resilience, recovery, and equitable prosperity for local communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left indelible impacts on Canada’s cities, exposing both challenges and opportunities. In response, all Canadian municipalities, are developing strategies that respond to this new context. For The City of Toronto, this includes a new forward-looking 10 year Action Plan for Toronto’s Economy. Join CUI and Toronto city builders in discussion on…
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February 15, 2024
What can we learn? Solving the encampment and shelter crises in Canada’s cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has left indelible impacts on Canada’s cities, exposing both challenges and opportunities. In response, all Canadian municipalities, are developing strategies that respond to this new context. For The City of Toronto, this includes a new forward-looking 10 year Action Plan for Toronto’s Economy. Join CUI and Toronto city builders in discussion on…
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January 25, 2024
Interact: How can cities move transportation equity from rhetoric to reality?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left indelible impacts on Canada’s cities, exposing both challenges and opportunities. In response, all Canadian municipalities, are developing strategies that respond to this new context. For The City of Toronto, this includes a new forward-looking 10 year Action Plan for Toronto’s Economy. Join CUI and Toronto city builders in discussion on…
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December 21, 2023
How Can We Build a Dynamic, Inclusive and Resilient Economy in Canada’s Largest City?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left indelible impacts on Canada’s cities, exposing both challenges and opportunities. In response, all Canadian municipalities, are developing strategies that respond to this new context. For The City of Toronto, this includes a new forward-looking 10 year Action Plan for Toronto’s Economy. Join CUI and Toronto city builders in discussion on…
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December 18, 2023
Communities We All Deserve
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary The power of community, with its ability to open minds and hearts, reminds us why most of us choose (despite the deepening issues) to live together in cities. In this final of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities…
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December 18, 2023
Policies & Pavement: Street-level Solutions
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Whatever the scale and scope of the tough issues being discussed in a single day, solutions often seem to be within reach after lunch. In the third of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit in Ottawa on November…
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December 18, 2023
Collaboration is the Key to the City
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary When wanting to find solutions to urban issues, it’s always best to talk to those professionals directly involved. Better yet, invite them to talk to each other.In the second of four City Talk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities…
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December 18, 2023
Urban Planet: Innovative City Making Beyond Canada
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Sometimes great things happen when you bring the right people together to talk.In this first of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit in Ottawa on November 30th, host Mary Rowe presents highlights from morning panel conversations exploring…
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December 18, 2023
What’s Working, What’s Not and What’s Next?
Join four city builders to discuss key themes and insights that were raised November 30 at At The Crossroads: The State of Canada’s Cities, and also covered in the State of the Cities report issued the same day. Bring your questions and comments to CityTalk and engage in what are the key challenges – and…
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November 30, 2023
From Fragile States to Fragile Neighborhoods – Why local places matter
In this session, US scholar Seth Kaplan and Canadian community-economy builder Zita Cobb grapple with reimagining neighborhoods as the most critical unit of organization in North America. This challenges classic perspectives on the nation-state, amplifying the local.
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November 30, 2023
Ground-truthing – Strategies for Success
https://youtu.be/I39WW0iZ1qM Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Building on the challenges set out in the morning sessions, what are the tangible approaches being taken in local communities to strengthen social, economic and environmental resilience, and make our cities more productive and equitable. What must each sector do to…
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November 30, 2023
Intervention Points in the System – Policy-making and Leadership
https://youtu.be/zhLqm7VquXY Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Phil TeijeiraVice President & Chief Customer Officer, Enbridge Gas Inc. Fanny Tremblay-RacicotProfesseure agrégée, Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique Graham CarrPresident, Concordia University Ehren CoryCEO, Canada Infrastructure Bank Lisa HelpsMayor of Victoria Elizabeth McIsaacPresident, Maytree Summary Panel Transcript Canada has many institutions and…
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