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 Summit in Ottawa on November 30th, host Mary Rowe presents highlights from afternoon conversations around innovative, uplifting solutions that build community.

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 30th, host Mary Rowe presents highlights from afternoon sessions featuring local and national experts offering practical, street-tested solutions.

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 Summit in Ottawa on November 30th, host Mary Rowe presents more highlights from morning sessions focussed on the key challenges and opportunities faced by every sector of urban life, and where collaboration can make all the difference.

Over one million Canadians are living in transport poverty, where their ability to access vital opportunities is limited by inadequate, unsafe, or unaffordable transportation options. City builders are recognizing that the way transportation has been planned, designed, and delivered is unfair and needs to change. Cities have an opportunity to build transportation systems that work for everyone, but how can equity be actioned on the ground?

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 concrete steps that can be taken by the City, businesses and institutions to trend to produce better outcomes and better opportunities for everyone.

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 possibilities – for Canadian cities in 2024

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 have and must exercise for Canada to succeed in this poly-crisis environment.

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 have and must exercise for Canada to succeed in this poly-crisis environment.

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 making policy level and then in translating policy to practical action on the ground?