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  • Betting Big: Should Canada be Investing in Cultural Infrastructure?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj1emnUmG7Y&t=2141s Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 KeyTakeaways1. Cultural Infrastructure is Expanding GloballyThe growth of cultural infrastructure is not just a local trend but a global one. As Natalia Vartapetova highlighted, “What we are seeing really, from this most recent year and from prior years is that the investment in cultural infrastructure internationally continues…

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  • Systems, not symptoms: How do we address Mental Health and Wellbeing in Canada’s Downtowns?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tM43YhISLw Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 KeyTakeaways1. Mental health appears to be declining in CanadaThe urgency of addressing mental health issues is heightened by their increasing prevalence. Paul Stam, sergeant at Ottawa Police Services reported a “55% increase in mental…

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  • More Than Monuments: What’s on the agenda for capital downtowns?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ2H26_vwkQ Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 KeyTakeaways1. Bringing (back) vibrancy to downtownsDowntown is the first point of access to people coming into the city and for Capital Cities, they can represent the rest of the nation. A good first impression…

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  • The Ottawa Sessions – Street Level Thinking

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary Bringing The Ottawa Sessions to a close is another kind of big-picture’ perspective, albeit from street level. In developing ‘A Living Capitol,’ the downtown revitalization action plan CUI co-developed with many of Ottawa’s civic and governmental leaders, some of the most informative views came courtesy…

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  • The Ottawa Sessions – Bank on it

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary In episode 3 of The Ottawa Sessions, host Mary Rowe brings you to her new, favourite café to meet Jessie Duffy, owner/operator of Arlington 5 in Centretown. It’s located just a steps off Bank Street, one of Ottawa’s north-south Main Streets connecting many of…

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  • The Ottawa Sessions – Design and Redesign

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary The second episode of The Ottawa Sessions explores the scope of design and, often, redesign, needed to help revitalize the downtown core of our nation’s capitol.From soon-to-be vacant federal buildings to iconic public spaces like the Byward Market, the city has tremendous assets, along with…

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  • The Ottawa Sessions – The Big Picture

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Summary Season Two of the CityTalk Podcast begins with a four-part series we’ve dubbed The Ottawa Sessions, featuring conversations with many of the civic, business and governmental leaders CUI collaborated with in the development of ‘A Living Capitol,’ a downtown revitalization…

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  • 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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