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  • Local Matters: Community Wealth Building

    Bolstering Canada’s local economies has become an instant priority in the wake of proposed actions by the Trump administration. Fortunately, we have no shortage of smart people with innovative solutions already in the works.

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  • Local Matters: The View from the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce

    Host Mary Rowe welcomes another ‘tariff/no tariff’ conversation with Doug Griffiths and Heather Thomson of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, and frank talk about what could, and what shouldn’t, happen in this moment of economic uncertainty (crisis? opportunity?) for communities across Canada.

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  • Local Matters: Supporting Community Businesses

    We interrupt CUI’s post-State of Canada’s Cities Summit programming for some timely conversation about economic resilience. There’s nothing like the wake-up call of a looming Canada-US trade war to focus the attention of communities everywhere on innovative strategies to generate local strength and reduce impacts of cross-border disruptions.

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  • Culture, Equity, and Infrastructure: Conversations from the Summit

    Mention infrastructure, and it’s hard not to picture things like public buildings, transit systems and water/power distribution. However, other vital elements of urban society are, or should be, integrated into those things and need to be part of their design.

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  • Building Better, Building Beautiful: Conversations from the Summit

    The dozen panel discussions recorded in December 2024 on Day One of CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit revolved around urban infrastructure in all its modern permutations, and how we need to build it better, faster and more sustainably. However, that doesn’t preclude its ability to also add beauty and contribute to our collective well-being.…

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  • Designing Cities, Day and Night: Conversations from the Summit

    The Canadian Urban Institute’s mobile podcast studio at the State of Canada’s Cities Summit in Ottawa last December offered CUI staff the opportunity to chat with some of the leading voices attending the event.

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  • Resilience and Innovation: Conversations from the Summit

    More forward-thinking discussions on infrastructure from CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit, these the first of several recorded by our mobile podcast studio.

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  • Setting the Agenda: Conversations from the Summit

    As host Mary Rowe stated early in this series, once you understand what infrastructure is, you can’t help but see it everywhere around you.

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  • Infrastructure for Wellbeing: Conversations from the Summit

    Where do you start two days of conversation about the issues around infrastructure in all its modern urban permutations? For host Mary Rowe and her team at the Canadian Urban Institute, the answer was obvious – talk first about the mental health crisis affecting most every community.

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  • Fueling Growth and Data-Driven Communities: Conversations from the Summit

    More highlights from the morning plenary session of the State of Canada’s Cities Summit, presented in Ottawa last December 2024 by the Canadian Urban Institute.

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  • Looking Ahead: What’s in store for urban Canada in 2025?

    The panelists unanimously agreed that housing, affordability, and homelessness continue to be some of the most pressing issues facing urban Canada in 2025. Mayor Andy Fillmore of Halifax emphasized, “Housing and homelessness, congestion and transit and affordability … Those are really the things that we’re wrestling with.” These challenges have eclipsed other important issues, such…

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    Leading the Way: Orienting Investments Around Place

    Note to readers: This video session was transcribed using auto-transcribing software.  Questions or concerns with the transcription can be directed to citytalk@canurb.org with “transcription” in the subject line.

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