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 #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
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 #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 #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 #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
