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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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November 30, 2023
Ground-truthing – Strategies for Success
https://youtu.be/I39WW0iZ1qM Featured Guests 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 Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Canada has many institutions and organizations, community organizations and businesses, committed to working with each other and governments to develop and implement the best solutions. What are the most effective ways to create transformational change, at a policy…
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November 30, 2023
What Success Looks Like – Leveraging Our Assets
https://youtu.be/cqhb-NhjMcE Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript CUI has framed every conversation it has convened since March 2020 as what is working, what’s not, and what’s next for Canada’s cities and urban regions. These final two sessions bring together participants to highlight their solutions but…
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November 30, 2023
What Success Looks Like – Agency and Opportunity
https://youtu.be/_0R5BdgZ-BI Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript CUI has framed every conversation it has convened since March 2020 as what is working, what’s not, and what’s next for Canada’s cities and urban regions. These final two sessions bring together participants to highlight their solutions but also identify the key obstacles to further success, and the levers governments…
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November 30, 2023
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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November 30, 2023
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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November 30, 2023
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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November 30, 2023
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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November 24, 2023
Art For Our Cities’ Sake: A Conversation with Patti Pon
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary For a final preview of the leading voices and topics on the agenda at the upcoming State of Canada’s Cities Summit on November 30th, host Mary Rowe chats with Patti Pon, president and CEO of Calgary Arts Development about how arts & culture are increasingly vital tools for city building.Read…
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October 27, 2023
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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October 19, 2023
Fragile Neighbourhoods: A Conversation with Seth Kaplan
Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Seth KaplanProfessorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Summary Summary An urban neighbourhood can be many things to its residents beyond a shared place to live. It can be where to find and/or offer support to community members; join others in working for better…
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September 28, 2023
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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