Canada's Placemaking Community

ECF Community Grants Application Period Begins
2023-08-15 | Virtual (Edmonton), Alberta
Learn more about Edmonton Community Foundation Grants here! Stage 1 application intake begins August 15 and closes on September 15, at 12:00pm MT.

This grant is unaffiliated with the Healthy Communities Initiative.

Sense-Making Session #5: Placemaking with Funders
2023-07-27 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
The Healthy Communities Initiative is partnering with Happy Cities to explore the Power of Placemaking. Join us over the next few months to share your experiences, reflections, and lessons-learned through a series of sense-making sessions:
Session 5: Placemaking with funders
Thursday, July 27 from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. PT
This session will invite potential funders to discuss their goals and interests in supporting placemaking projects. During the session, we will explore what questions funders have around placemaking, and what they need in order to support these projects. Further, we will identify key challenges and barriers they face in funding placemaking projects. We will discuss the importance of placemaking funding in supporting social connection and wellbeing.
REGISTER NOW FOR SESSION 5

Sense-Making Session #4: Activations
2023-07-20 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
The Healthy Communities Initiative is partnering with Happy Cities to explore the Power of Placemaking. Join us over the next few months to share your experiences, reflections, and lessons-learned through a series of sense-making sessions:
Session 4: Activations
Thursday, July 20 from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. PT
This session will cover urban activation events, such as markets, festivals, open streets, and art murals. It will also include conversation around activating transportation, community hubs, and community equity. We will discuss how urban activation events are valuable to communities and how placemaking through activation events impacts communities. We will discuss placemaking activations and the role they play in social connection and wellbeing.
REGISTER NOW FOR SESSION 4

Sense-Making Session #3: Placemaking with City Staff
2023-07-12 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
The Healthy Communities Initiative is partnering with Happy Cities to explore the Power of Placemaking. Join us over the next few months to share your experiences, reflections, and lessons-learned through a series of sense-making sessions:
Session 3: Placemaking with city staff
Thursday, July 12 from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. PT
This session will be geared towards staff of municipalities as we cover placemaking and city staff. We will invite staff to share their experiences with placemaking initiatives, and discuss some of the successes and challenges they face in supporting placemaking projects. We will discuss the importance of placemaking with city staff and the role it plays in social connection and wellbeing.
Register for this session here!

The Park People Conference 2023
2023-06-21 - 2023-06-23 | TBA
Hope in Action: Park Solutions for Thriving Cities
The Park People Conference is a national event that brings together Canada’s community park group leaders, non-profit organizations, government staff and park professionals.
The 2023 national conference theme is Hope in Action: Park Solutions for Thriving Cities, and will feature the city park people, practices and policies accelerating the transition to equitable cities where people and the rest of nature thrive.
Learn from and engage with the Canadian city park solutions that generate community belonging and resilience, nourish relationships between people and the rest of nature and recognize city parks as essential infrastructure for cities.
Click here to learn more and register!

Canadian Climate Institute: Honouring Indigenous Climate Leadership
2023-06-15 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Virtual – Register for Links
Honouring Indigenous Climate Leadership

A roundtable discussion showcasing Indigenous-led research and policy responding to climate change.
Event Date: 15.06.23
To amplify and centre Indigenous voices at the cutting-edge of climate research and policy, the Canadian Climate Institute, in partnership with the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, will host a roundtable discussion on June 15 with the authors of three new case studies in our Indigenous Perspectives series.
These case studies showcase the work of Indigenous researchers, Knowledge Holders, water protectors, and community members. The discussion will highlight how Indigenous self-determination and knowledge are integral to designing effective regional, provincial, territorial, and national climate policies.
Moderator:
Shianne McKay, Senior Project Manager, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
Opening remarks:
Rick Smith, President, Canadian Climate Institute
Speakers:
Sandra Lamouche (Bigstone Cree Nation)
Patrick Michell (Retired Chief, Kanaka Bar Indian Band)
Dr. Emily Dicken (Indigenous scholar, practitioner in Emergency Management)
Dr. Lilia Yumagulova (Program Director for the Preparing Our Home Program)
Sheri Lysons (Elders and Youth Council Coordinator, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council)
Casey Gabriel (Líl̓wat Nation, Volunteer Fire Department)
Randy Carpenter (Heiltsuk Emergency Coordinator)
Learn more and register here!

Placemaking Canada Gathering
2023-06-11 09:00 - 2023-06-12 17:00 UTC | Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4W 3X8, Canada
CALLING ALL CANADIAN PLACEMAKERS & PUBLIC SPACE ADVOCATES
Join Placemaking Canada for the fourth Placemaking Canada national gathering, taking place June 11-12 at Evergreen Brick Works in and around beautiful Toronto, Ontario.
This is an opportunity for placemakers and public space advocates to share stories, successes, tactics and aspirations. Since 2015, Placemaking Canada has held national gatherings in Montreal (2015), Vancouver (2016), and Halifax (2019). This will be the first time we have been able to meet face-to-face in over three years.
The two-day Placemaking Canada gathering includes walk, roll and bike tours, workshops and presentations, networking events, and various other activities. A full agenda will be posted shortly. All of these activities support three overarching objectives:
Connecting

Providing an opportunity for face-to-face connections between Canadian placemakers (and friends); elevating voices and dialogue between grassroots placemaking and public space organizations.

Learning & Exploring

Hitting the streets to explore Toronto’s fantastic public spaces, city-building activities, and inspiring local initiatives.

Growing

Strengthening the network of local placemakers and building the Placemaking Canada movement.

Double the fun! The Placemaking Canada gathering follows the 11th International Public Markets Conference (organized by Project for Public Spaces) taking place on June 8-10. The two events will provide back-to-back opportunities to engage with like-minded folks and to engage on a variety of topics.
Register for the Placemaking Canada Gathering here!

11th International Public Markets Conference
2023-06-08 - 2023-06-10 | St. Lawrence Market, 92 - 95 Front Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1C3, Canada
The largest global conference for public market professionals.
For over 35 years, the International Public Markets Conference has brought together leading public market leaders and advocates including a broad mix of government leaders, market managers, downtown planners, grassroots organizers, local food advocates, transportation experts, health care professionals, and educators from around the world to explore the cutting edge of market practice.
At this year’s three-day event on June 8-10, 2023, co-hosts Project for Public Spaces, the City of Toronto, St. Lawrence Market, and Market City TO invite you to help unlock the potential of market systems as equitable sources of well-being and opportunity in one of the world’s great Market Cities—Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Learn more and register here!

RECONNECT 2023: Community Foundations Conference
2023-06-01 - 2023-06-03 | TBD
As communities recover from the pandemic, our networks need a space to heal and reconnect. The 2023 community foundations conference will provide our network that opportunity. We will gather in Tkaronto | Toronto from June 1-3, 2023 with a pre-conference day on May 31 – to meet old friends, make new ones, and reconnect to our purpose. There will also be a suite of pre-conference virtual connection opportunities leading up to our in-person gathering.
This will complement the in-person sessions and be an opportunity for those unable to gather in Tkaronto | Toronto to be a part of RECONNECT 2023.
Throughout RECONNECT 2023, we will:

Renew our connections with each other;
Rethink some of our long-held assumptions, and;
Reimagine the potential and opportunities that we have in philanthropy.

We’re getting excited and we hope you are too! It’s less than a year away and there are so many new members of the community foundation network that we’ve not yet had the chance to meet in person. The conference is an opportunity for community foundations to connect with each other, partners and members of the nonprofit community.
Learn more and follow updates here!

CityTalk: How Can We Work Together on the Mental Health Crisis in Our Downtowns?
2023-05-31 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
Location: Zoom
The on-going failure to provide widespread and adequate mental health services is a visceral reminder of the challenges to our housing and social service systems. This crisis continues to affect Canada’s downtowns, main streets, public spaces, and transit, negatively impacting many residents’ perception of public safety. If we are to build equitable and inclusive cities for all, how can we work together on the mental health crisis in our downtowns?
Join 6 amazing panelists for a deeper-dive into the approaches communities are taking to provide referral and care supports, and to restore public confidence in our public spaces and places. How are cities addressing the crisis? what are the proven best practices? and what other initiatives need to be considered to offer support systems for all?
Cam Guthrie – Mayor of Guelph (Guelph,ON)
Kyle Marcus – Managing Director, Downtown Sudbury Business Improvement Area (Sudbury, ON)
Dr. Suzanne Shoush – Director of Indigenous Health Program at Inner City Health Associates (Toronto,ON)
Al Wiebe – Peer and Community Engagement trainer, Homelessness Advocate and host of “Of No fixed Address” (Winnipeg, MB)
Dr. Andrew Bond, Medical Director at Inner City Health Associates (Toronto, ON)
Superintendent Howard Tran, Vancouver Police Department, Investigative Support Services (Vancouver, BC)
Register here!

2023 Toronto Mayoral By-Election Debate
2023-05-25 18:15 - 20:00 UTC | Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St., Toronto, ON, M5S 1K6, Canada
This election, the future of our city is at stake. Toronto needs a dynamic, energetic change agent to lead the 4th largest city in North America and drive a reboot of the national economic engine. The future could be very bright for Toronto: we have been called a ‘quietly booming tech town’ with the innovation, entrepreneurial mindset and talent to lead new and emerging global sectors. However, we need to hit go on the issues facing our city, such as chronic congestion, declining affordability, public safety, homelessness, and fraying public services.
On May 25th, we’re inviting the leading mayoral candidates to the podium to discuss, debate and demonstrate how they will address the issues that impact Toronto’s livability and prosperity. This is their opportunity to prove they have the right mix of knowledge, skills, and experience to lead our city toward a successful future.
This debate will be broadcast live on The Agenda/TVO Today’s YouTube channel, and on TVO’s broadcast channel for those unable to attend in person.
AGENDA:
6:15pm: Doors Open
6:50pm: Opening Remarks
7:00pm: Debate Begins
8:00pm: Debate Concludes
Learn more here

Skills for Change Spotlight Series: Reflecting on Anti-Black Racism
2023-05-23 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Virtual
“Hundreds demand justice in Minneapolis after police killing of George Floyd” – The Guardian.
One headline out of thousands, all talking about the tragedy that shocked the whole world. The year 2020 marked a watershed moment in the fight against Anti-Black racism. George Floyd’s incident led to protests, with millions of people demanding an end to systemic racism that the Black community has been facing for over 400 years. With the Black Lives Matter movement gaining momentum, powerful displays of solidarity were seen around the world, also highlighting the deeply rooted nature of Anti-Black Racism in our societies.
Unfortunately, three years later, Anti-Black Racism continues to be a pervasive issue in Canada, and around the world. With incidents such as Ralph Yarl’s, it is important we reassess our contributions as a community in the ongoing fight against this issue.
As such, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion as we engage in a discussion about Anti-Black racism and critically assess the progress made since 2020.
Join the conversation!

Self-Regulation Workshop with Susan Hopkins of The MEHRIT Centre
2023-05-18 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Virtual
Join Erin Mills Connects online for a FREE workshop series on Self-Regulation presented by The MEHRIT Centre, the people who literally wrote the books on Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators and Self-Reg. The series is on Thurs., April 27 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. ET and Thurs., May 18 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. ET. Register once for both workshops by visiting: onpathway.me/self-reg-pge.
This event is part 1 of a two-part workshops for parents/guardians and other caregivers

Placemaking: What is it and Why Does it Matter? / Argumenter en faveur du placemaking: de quoi s’agit-il et pourquoi est-il si important?
2023-05-18 13:00 - 14:15 UTC | Virtual
Whether picking up litter in the park with a community group, organizing a public poetry reading on your block, or enjoying public art in a local shopping area, placemaking activities help us feel that we belong. Throughout the pandemic, Canadian communities have experimented with using these types of public space and digital interventions in new ways, calling on their resourcefulness to enhance mobility, cultivate a sense of belonging, and facilitate greater connection to each other. A growing number of municipalities, nonprofits, and community groups are now strategically bringing placemaking to the heart of their organizations. But what is placemaking and why is it important to support this work beyond the pandemic?
Register now for Building the Case for Placemaking: What is it and Why Does it Matter? happening on Thursday, May 18, 2023 @ 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET. This 75-minute session, hosted by Mitchell Reardan from Happy Cities and Mary Rowe from CUI City Talks, delves into the well-being impacts of cultivating spaces for public engagement: What are we learning from our experiences over the past three years? Is there a super-power in community-driven change? How can we continue to build support for these incredible efforts?
Featuring practitioners from across the country, this conversation offers an opportunity to hear from people doing the work about the role of public space and digital placemaking interventions in cultivating healthy, inclusive, and resilient communities. Register now for this free public webinar!
Click here to register!
The session will take place in English with simultaneous interpretation in French.

Qu’il s’agisse de ramasser les déchets d’un parc avec un groupe communautaire, d’organiser une lecture de poésie publique dans un quartier ou bien encore de faire découvrir des œuvres d’art dans la zone commerciale locale, les activités de placemaking nous procurent toujours un sentiment d’appartenance. Tout au long de la pandémie, les communautés canadiennes ont expérimenté de nouvelles façons d’utiliser les espaces publics et les interventions numériques, mettant à contribution leur ingéniosité pour améliorer la mobilité, cultiver un sentiment d’appartenance et faciliter l’établissement de liens plus étroits entre les gens. De plus en plus de municipalités, d’organismes à but non lucratif et de groupes communautaires placent désormais le placemaking au cœur de leur stratégie. Mais qu’est-ce que le placemaking, exactement, et pourquoi est-il important de le soutenir au-delà de la pandémie?
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant à la conférence « Argumenter en faveur du placemaking: de quoi s’agit-il et pourquoi est-il si important? » Cette présentation aura lieu le jeudi 18 mai 2023 à 10 h HP / 13 h HE. D’une durée de 75 minutes, elle sera animée par Mitchell Reardan de Happy Cities et Mary Rowe de City Talks pour l’Institut urbain du Canada. Elle abordera l’impact sur le bien-être des citoyens des espaces conçus pour favoriser l’engagement public: Qu’avons-nous appris de nos expériences de ces dernières années? Les changements menés par les communautés elles-mêmes ont-ils un superpouvoir? Comment pouvons-nous soutenir ces formidables initiatives?
Avec la participation de praticiens de tout le pays, cette conversation offre l’opportunité de recueillir les témoignages de ceux qui travaillent sur le rôle de l’espace public et des interventions numériques de placemaking pour cultiver des communautés saines, inclusives et résilientes. Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez à notre conversation sur cet important travail!
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wyQBD7kzSmSRyKanAzrnfw#/registration
Cette séance aura lieu en anglais avec interprétation simultanée en français.

"Can't Stand The Heat?" Report Presentation - Worker Solidarity Network
2023-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Virtual – Register for Links
The Worker Solidarity Network is hosting a virtual event to proclaim the upcoming report launch on the results from our first ever Climate and Labour Project.
Join in for a presentation on May 11th at noon PST to learn about the report titled “Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Out of the Kitchen”, which explores the intersection between labour justice and climate justice. This past year, the Worker Solidarity Network has been engaging with low-wage food service workers with the goal of better understanding how extreme weather events impact standards and conditions at work.
The presentation will outline the major findings from the WSN’s climate-labour project which include information about precarious employment, prominent concerns from food service workers, collective worker efforts to mitigate harm, and recommendations necessary to ensure a safer and equitable planet for all.
The event will be facilitated by Pamela, and Jen will provide some key insights and summary of the report. Following that we will have other speakers TBD.
Learn more and register here!
See you soon! And stay tuned for the report launch on May 8th, 2023.

CUI CityTalk: How might office conversions revitalize the post-pandemic city?
2023-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Virtual
In the wake of COVID, millions of square feet of office space sit empty in cities across North America. CUI’s recent report, “The Case for Conversions: Understanding opportunities for conversion of office space to housing in Canadian downtowns,” examines the barriers and opportunities for the adaptive re-use of office space across Canadian cities. As work from home practices persist and office vacancies remain stubbornly elevated in many downtowns, there is an opportunity to re-imagine how these under-utilized assets could assist in downtown revitalization: bringing people and complementary uses to create more resilient, diverse and equitable cores.
Join our panelists to explore conversions that are underway, what makes them feasible, how stakeholders are leveraging office space conversions to create a balance of uses in downtowns, and what other initiatives need to be considered to revitalize urban cores.
Featuring:
Melissa Román Burch – Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC)
Tracy Hadden Loh – Fellow at Brookings Metro, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking (Washington D.C.)
Joe Nickerson – Vice President & Partner, Sidewalk Real Estate Development (Halifax)
Steven Paynter – Principal, Gensler Toronto (Toronto)

Jane's Walks
2023-05-05 - 2023-05-07 | Various cities across the country, Canada
Happening in cities across the country
On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours.
Here are some of the Canadian cities hosting upcoming Jane’s Walk events: Halifax, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto

Atlantic Black Policy Conference 2023
2023-04-28 13:00 - 2023-04-29 19:00 UTC | Delta Hotels by Marriott Prince Edward, 18 Queen Street, Charlottetown, PEI, C1A 4A1, Canada
Atlantic Black Policy Conference 2023: Reimagining our Traditions through Black Communities in the Atlantic
The Atlantic Black Policy Conference is a representation of Black community-led and policy informed programming in Atlantic Canada, with an agenda that will be applicable to institutions that navigate and carry-out policies pertaining to Black communities. The aim of the ABPC involves building upon existing knowledge, and highlighting the advocacy surrounding policy development and implementation.
The inaugural Conference was held virtually in October 2021 under the theme Our Collective Voice. The theme for 2023 is Reimagining our Traditions through Black Communities in the Atlantic. This theme was selected to reflect on Black populations in the Atlantic region, their histories, ways of life, their forms of leadership, and to use the lessons learned to advise policy development and systemic change.

This event was shared to Canada’s Placemaking Community through the NABC newsletter

Small Group Discussion - Open Streets
2023-04-27 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Virtual
On the 27th of April2023, we will be hosting a peer-learning session to exchange experiences on Open Streets.
This participatory space will be facilitated by Shannon Lawrence from 8 80 Cities. This session builds on the Mobilizer Session hosted last January of the same theme. Here is the link to the recording: https://youtu.be/jVadnHy5SgU
If you are interested in joining this small group discussion, register here!

Small Group Discussion - Mental Health and Wellbeing
2023-04-25 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Virtual
We will be hosting a peer-learning session to exchange experiences on mental health and wellbeing practices. This participatory space will be facilitated by Sarah Juma from the Canadian Center for Nonprofit Digital Resilience.
Some of the topics that we will touch on are…

Providing mental health support in a virtual environment: best practices, challenges and opportunities.
Making mental health supports accessible and community-centred
Strategies to break the digital gap and develop inclusive support strategies.
Other…

Grow with us! An Earth Day Celebration!
2023-04-22 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | Jess Jones Recreation Therapy Centre, 1124 Gainsborough Rd., London, Ontario, N6H 5K8, Canada
Please join us for our Earth Day Event on April 22
This event brings families and individuals together to spend a half day connecting with nature, followed by a lunch social.
Our half-day celebration takes us to the beautiful Medway Heritage Forest Trail, beginning with creating peanut-free bird feeders, then a guided forest walk, and finishing with a lunch social at Jess Jones Recreation Therapy Inc.
A $75.00 ticket includes the following:
2 Pinecone birdfeeders
A guided forest walk with invitations to immerse your senses and connect with nature
Lunch Social
Gift
Please get in touch with us to chat about our group rate (4 or more!)
This is a family-friendly event, and we encourage families and individuals to join us to celebrate nature and our beautiful earth.
Limited space of 15. Register today!
Learn more here!

Cities for Everyone: Medellín Case Study: Architecture, Urbanism and Planning /w Guest Jorge Perez,
2023-04-18 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
Medellín Case Study: Architecture, Urbanism and Planning. Guest: Prof. Jorge Perez, former chief planner.
From being known as the ‘world’s drug capital’ to become a model for innovative equitable urbanism. Jorge will share reflections on the evolution of Medellín as a city, starting from its extreme crisis in the 1990s, and how it built a democratic and technical process in which the city was constructed as a scene for public life. Multi-scale planning, urban projects, large infrastructures, urban acupuncture, and social urbanism, among other aspects, will be part of the contents of the session.
Register here for this event!
Event shared with Canada’s Placemaking Community through 8 8 0 Cities

NABC - Evaluation Capacity Building Pilot: Peer Learning Event
2023-04-13 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Virtual
Black-led, Black-focused, and Black-serving organizations, groups, and networks (B3s) play a critical role in meeting urgent needs and improving the conditions for Black communities. Building their capacity to do and use evaluation data is important in telling the impact of their work. Peer learning can be an effective strategy to facilitate learning contextualized in shared experience.
Join the Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (NABC) and Yamina Sidane, Social Innovation Coordinator at Groupe 3737 for a peer learning event. You will have the opportunity to hear from a peer; collectively reflect on the challenges and rewards of evaluation; and learn from other B3s about their experiences in order to apply any lessons learned.
Register here

Webinar: Reflections and Resources from the Agents of Change Project
2023-04-12 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Virtual
ICLEI Canada’s Agents of Change Project helped participating municipalities conceptualize impactful local volunteer programs tailored to their community and climate mitigation and/or adaptation goals. Through a collaborative cohort model, participants explored key considerations like governance structures, partnership models, recruitment techniques, Indigenous engagement, inclusion and equity, approaches to social media, and more. Join ICLEI Canada to learn about their experiences and discover resources that can support you in building your own climate volunteer engagement program.
Learn more and register here!

Mentorship Information Session
2023-04-12 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Virtual
Registration for the next Mentorship Program cohort is opening soon! Learn more about this opportunity and meet the mentors on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET through our virtual Mentorship Information Session!
The Mentorship Program provides an opportunity for practitioners from across the country to work one-on-one with an experienced practitioner. Over three-months, mentor and mentee meet to explore ideas and work through challenges together. This program is free of charge.
The next cohort will run from the month of May through to July. In this session, we will share information about the Mentorship Program, learn about and hear from the mentors, and open the floor to questions from the audience during an open Q & A.
To learn more about the Mentorship Program, visit the Peer Learning page at Canada’s Placemaking Community.
Click here to register for the Mentorship Information Session

Spotlight Series: Skills in Demand for Canada’s Future - Developing the Skills for the Future
2023-04-11 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Virtual
Did you know?
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, 50% of all employees will need to reskill by 2025 as the adoption of technology increases. A simplified version of this statement would be – a HALF of all your employees will need to gain entirely new in-demand skills and competencies to keep up with the digital transformation and stay employable.
To future-proof citizens’ ability to work, they will require new skills—but which ones?
Join Skills for Change on April 11 for a panel discussion on how to get the right skills to shock-proof our participation in the future of Canada’s economy.
Register here!

The Franklin Lecture with Dr. Charlton McIlwain - Black Software: Retrospect to Prospect
2023-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J5, Canada
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Black Software showcases computing technology’s origin story amidst the turbulent racial confrontations of the 1960s, connecting it to the rise of the Black internet who helped to birth the Internet as we know it through the late 1980s and 1990s.
With The Franklin Lecture, Dr. McIlwain provides an opportunity to bring together the most significant takeaways from the book and arguments never presented in the book—but nevertheless connect computing technology’s past with the prospect of our future will and ability to make technology work in the service of racial equity and opportunity.
Book signing and reception to follow.
Copies of Dr. McIlwain’s book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (2019) will be available for sale at on site through A Different Booklist.

Brave Conversations with Fearless Women in Philanthropy (CFC)
2023-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Virtual
Are inspirational people fearless, or are they brave enough to move forward alongside their fears? This International Women’s Day, Community Foundations of Canada is thrilled to share a conversation with five brave women in philanthropy, where they will discuss leadership, diversity and what it means to be fearless, or if being fearless is even possible.
In this panel discussion, CFC president Andrea Dicks hosts a meaningful conversation, asking thoughtful and bold questions that open doors to reflections from brave women in the sector.
Register here!

56th Annual Congress on Endocrinology & Disorders
2023-03-27 - 2023-03-28 | City of Vancouver (Multiple locations), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to ENDOCRINE-2023!
On behalf of the ENDOCRINE-2023 Organizing Committee, we take great pleasure in inviting all participants from around the world to attend the “56th Annual Congress on Endocrinology & Disorders” (ACED-2023) to be held from March 27-28, 2023 Vancouver, Canada on the theme “Reunite to Raise Hands against Metabolic disorders”.
This event will cover prompt keynote presentations, oral talks, and poster presentations. Endocrine-2023 aims to share new ideas and technologies amongst the professionals, industrialists, and students from research areas of Endocrinologists, academic scientists, professors, and research.

Apprentissage mutuel - De meilleures options de mobilité
2023-03-22 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Zoom (Registration Required)
Une séance d’inter-apprentissage sera organisée le 22 mars 2023. Elle vous permettra de partager vos expériences et d’échanger sur les défis rencontrés et les bons coups réalisés dans le cadre de vos projets visant l’amélioration de la mobilité. Cet espace participatif sera animé par Catherine Craig-St-Louis et Pierre-Yves de Vivre en Ville.
Cette séance donnera l’occasion aux responsables de projets de s’appuyer sur les expériences des autres et de se soutenir mutuellement.
Les sujets de discussion seront définis en fonction des besoins spécifiques du groupe de participants concernés. Voici quelques-uns des sujets de réflexion potentiels en lien avec la sécurité et la convivialité des rues :

planifier et créer des rues conviviales et sécuritaire
évaluer les possibilités offertes et faire les choix appropriés
articuler différentes mesures pour créer des rues partagées et des rues étroites
améliorer la sécurité routière à proximité des écoles
consolider et développer un réseau cyclable utilitaire
repenser l’aménagement des rues commerciales
arrimer planification et sécurité routière, notamment dans un contexte de traversée de collectivité

Cette liste s’inspire entre autres du travail réalisé pour la rédaction des fiches sur la conception et la mise en oeuvre de rue apaisées et des échanges tenus entre Vivre en Ville et ses partenaires dans le cadre de classes de maîtres réalisées ces derniers mois.
Seules 8 places sont disponibles. Nous vous encourageons donc à vous inscrire le plus rapidement possible à la séance.
La séance durera 1 heure et demie et débutera à 13 heures HE.
Cliquez ici pour vous inscrire à la session d’inter-apprentissage. Il ne vous faudra que 5 à 7 minutes pour remplir le formulaire d’inscription.
