Mind the Gap: The Post-COVID Gender Gap in Canada’s Cities This report highlights how the gender gap has widened in Canada’s cities over the past year, drawing on a combination of labour force data and a survey of more than 200,000 Canadians during the pandemic. With an intersectional lens, the report highlights dimensions of the gender gap which should be prioritized by policy and decision makers alike. #COVID19
Planning and Urban Design to Bring Back Main Street This solutions brief, from Fathom Studio, identifies opportunities to use planning and urban design to support the long-term recovery and resilience of main streets. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Operational Trends and Potential Actions for Main Street Retail Recovery This solution brief, from J.C. Williams Group, focuses on the role that local business organizations can take to help ensure that main streets remain lively areas of commerce. It presents an analysis of the trends and challenges experienced by retailers and suggests a series of potential actions for supporting the reopening, recovery, and renewal of main street commercial areas. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Supporting Main Street Recovery Through Small-Business-Friendly Policy This solution brief from, 360 Collective, focuses on the role governments can play in supporting main street retail business sustainability and driving recovery. It presents an analysis of the key requirements of business success and suggests retail policy solutions in 5 areas. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets #PublicFinance&Governance
COVID200 Regional Perspective: The Territories Jay Massie dives into trends and changes at Day 200 in the Territories, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: British Columbia Allison Ashcroft dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in British Columbia, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: Alberta Robert Plitt dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in the Alberta, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: The Prairies Michael Redhead Champagne dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in the Prairies, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: Ontario Selena Zhang dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in Ontario, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: Québec (Francais) Catherine Craig-St-Louis dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in Québec, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. (Available in English and French) #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: Québec (English) Catherine Craig-St-Louis dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in Québec, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. (Available in English and French) #COVID19
COVID200 Regional Perspective: Atlantic Canada Kourosh Rad dives into trends and changes at Day 200 of COVID-19 in Atlantic Canada, and what it means as we look ahead in a time of uncertainty and anxiety, but also of collective purpose in urban Canada. #COVID19
Memo #21: A Tale of Two Cities: How Differences in Provincial Commercial Property Tax Policies Affect Small Businesses in Vancouver and Toronto This memo outlines the differences in provincial commercial property tax approaches in Ontario and BC, and explores how the principle of ‘highest and best use’ affects small businesses. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #20: Rallying community support and spending through #AdoptAShopYEG This Memo highlights how using social media platforms and creating shop local initiatives can rally the community through concentrated local spending efforts. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #19: Meanwhile leases can turn the city into a theatre This Memo outlines the concept of “meanwhile leases”, and takes a look at a pilot project by a Toronto theatre group to turn temporarily vacant spaces into pop-up creative studios for artists. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #18: New BIZ Ambassador Team focuses on data and member connections This Memo looks at the launch of the Ambassador Program by the West End Business Improvement Zone in Winnipeg. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #17: Using Pop-ups to Activate Main Street This Memo outlines some of the broad advantages and applications of pop-ups and takes a look at how they have been used to activate struggling main streets and neighbourhoods in different cities. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #16: Embracing Winter like Never Before A pandemic winter could mean embracing the outdoors like never before, but for this to work a concerted effort is needed to ensure public spaces are safe and accessible for everyone. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memo #15: Buy Local with Confidence The “Buy Local with Confidence” report and toolkit supports BIAs, local economic development organizations, and other community leaders to protect local businesses in pandemic situations and bolster activity in their main streets. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #14: Who has the right to reallocated space? A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on designing space with the needs and desires of diverse users at the core #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #13: Main Street Faith Buildings: Evolving through COVID-19 and Beyond A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on how COVID-19 has affected faith buildings on main street. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #12: A Snapshot of Main Street Commercial Real Estate A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on main street commercial real estate. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #11: How COVID-19 Has Impacted our Attitudes, and What it Means for our Main Streets A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on how COVID-19 has impacted attitudes about main streets. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #10: Rediscovering Rural Main Streets A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative from FBM Planning Studio on rural main streets. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #9: Safety, Social Inclusion, and the Success of Main Streets A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative from the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area on safety and inclusion on main streets. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #8: What Main Street Retail Businesses Are Most Vulnerable? A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative from J.C. Wiliams Group on what businesses are most vulnerable during COVID-19. #COVID19 #Downtowns #LocalEconomy #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #7: Reallocating Main Street Space to Support Community Wellbeing A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative from Happy City on main street space and community wellbeing. #COVID19 #Downtowns #LocalEconomy #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #6: An Explainer on Main Street Small Business A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on main street small businesses. #COVID19 #Downtowns #LocalEconomy #MainStreets
A Call to Courage: An Open Letter to Canadian Urbanists Jay Pitter, award-winning placemaker and CUI Senior Fellow, Equity-Based Placemaking, releases A Call to Courage: An Open Letter to Canadian Urbanists, with a toolkit of resources for responding to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations.
COVID-19 Has Exposed How Vulnerable Canadian Cities Really Are Now that we have seen how our cities truly function at their most vulnerable, what possible excuse do we have to not emerge solely committed to fixing them? #COVID19
Memos From Main Street #5: New Online Models Helping Main Street Businesses during COVID-19 A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on how businesses have ‘gone digital during COVID-19 #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #4: Types of Main Streets Across Canada A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative on the impacts of COVID-19 on different types of main streets across Canada #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Leading from Home: Life for Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie During COVID-19 Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie talks to CUI’s Kate Graham about the challenges of leading one of Canada’s largest and most culturally diverse cities during COVID-19 #COVID19 #PublicFinance&Governance
The Raw Numbers: How COVID-19 is Changing Our Relationships at Home, Work, and In Our Communities A new survey of 2,100 Canadians shows that our sense of connection to one another is changing due to COVID-19. And as CUI’s Kate Graham writes, we can expect that these changed relationship dynamics will impact what life post-COVID-19 looks like, and how we settle back in to a new normal #COVID19
Memos From Main Street #3: How to Make CECRA Work for Main Street A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative documenting responses to the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #2: Scan of Provincial Main Street Re-opening Plans A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative with an at-a-glance summary of the proposed provincial/territorial timelines for re-opening main streets during COVID-19 #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
Memos From Main Street #1: Why Main Streets Matter A short brief from the Bring Back Main Street initiative about what’s at stake for our communities and their main streets during COVID-19. #COVID19 #Downtowns #MainStreets
A Tale of Two Emergencies How do we respond to two crises, COVID-19 and climate change? Elliott Cappell provides insights into how cities can adjust the way they fund, design, and implement projects to consider resilience every step of the way – to achieve not only climate objectives, but also build a city’s capacity to respond to a variety of systemic shocks #ClimateChange&Resilience #COVID19
How Canadian Cities Are Responding to the Crisis – And What Comes Next In this analysis, originally appearing in First Policy Response, Selena Zhang and André Côté detail the quick and innovative ways Canadian municipalities have quickly responded to COVID-19 and propose principles that should guide cities in their continued response and recovery planning #COVID19 #PublicFinance&Governance
COVID-19 Crisis Creates Chance to Examine Provincial Funding of Cities The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance’s Dr. Enid Slack and Tomas Hachard argue that in the wake of COVID-19, both provinces and municipalities should be preparing for a longer-term conversation about how to strengthen municipal fiscal health and public services going forward #COVID19 #PublicFinance&Governance
COVID-19 in the North: Interview with Yellowknife Mayor Rebecca Alty Mayor Rebecca Alty says that Yellowknife has implemented numerous changes to deal with the impacts COVID-19, just like other Canadian cities. But living north of 60 also presents a unique set of challenges when dealing with a crisis #COVID19 #PublicFinance&Governance
Fostering COVID-19 Resilience in Canada’s Cities In a guest column for Spacing Magazine, CUI’s Mary W. Rowe writes that COVID-19 has exposed incredible possibilities in Canadian cities but also surfaces significant missing pieces #ClimateChange&Resilience #COVID19
Podcast: New Resources for Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis CUI’s Mary W. Rowe talks to Municipal World’s Sue Gardner about how local government and communities across Canada are responding to the crisis and highlights important resources to help city builders and residents adapt to a new normal #COVID19
2018 Ontario Excess Soil Symposium: Key Themes Key themes from CUI’s 2nd annual Excess Soils Symposium #Infrastructure&Development
Resilient Toronto (Part 2): Creating inclusive, climate resilient growth A summary of the second event of a three-part series designed to engage city-builders and citizens in the development of a robust Resilience Strategy for the City of Toronto #ClimateChange&Resilience
National LED & Connected Streetlight Map This LSNetwork map displays projects across Canada where LED streetlight conversions and streetlight control systems have been completed, are being installed or have been approved for installation #SmartCities
The Resilient City Outcomes Report Summary of a +PlaceMaker event to discuss the importance of addressing interdependencies in urban resilience planning #ClimateChange&Resilience
