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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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September 14, 2023
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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August 24, 2023
Mobility as a Service: How can MaaS support better mobility access?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEC36gBMS4&feature=youtu.be 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. Furthering the conversation around Mobility as a Service. In an environment of shifting traveler behaviours, constrained municipal…
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July 25, 2023
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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July 19, 2023
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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July 14, 2023
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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July 12, 2023
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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July 10, 2023
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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June 7, 2023
How can we work together on the mental health crisis in our downtowns?
https://youtu.be/jvbQnPXaQao 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 highly coordinated care in communities. Vancouver Police Superintendent Howard Tran opened the discussion by…
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May 17, 2023
How Might Office Conversions Revitalize the Post-Pandemic City?
https://youtu.be/PV9OViggzvQ 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. Making the case for conversions Pandemic-induced shifts to remote and hybrid work combined with high office vacancies…
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December 15, 2022
CityTalk: How Are Ukrainian Cities and Municipalities Planning Their Recovery?
https://youtu.be/V3gU1Bt-XgY Featured Guest 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 conversation1. Ukraine’s cities have diverse and distinct recovery needs. Alexander Shevchenko, urban planner and founder of ReStart Ukraine, presented…
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December 7, 2022
COVID 1000 and Beyond: Making Better Decisions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDc1bA8fa2k Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript Key Takeaways A roundup of the most compelling ideas, themes and quotes from this candid conversation 1. Data is critical to decision-making and needs to be communicated and accessible to a broad audience. Data and…
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December 7, 2022
COVID 1000 and Beyond: 1-on-1 with Minister Bennett
https://youtu.be/5hcM7_VTLbs Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Carolyn BennettFormer MP, Government of Canada Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript Key Takeaways A roundup of the most compelling ideas, themes and quotes from this candid conversation The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Associate Minister of…
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