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Making Connections: Planning Parks and Open Space in Urban Neighbourhoods

This report by Park People proposes strategies for creating a network of parks and open spaces that can connect our parks, ravines, hydro and rail corridors, streets, laneways, schoolyards, and other public spaces.

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RECOVER Urban Wellbeing: an approach to improving urban wellness in amiskwacîwâskahikan

RECOVER Urban Wellbeing is an approach to improving urban wellness in amiskwacîwâskahikan, within Treaty 6 Territory; on the patch of land commonly known as Edmonton, Alberta. RECOVER is working to address long-standing systemic challenges that can be barriers to wellbeing.

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Highlights and Challenges in Building Inclusive Local Economies

This series of stories from the Metcalf Foundation, in partnership with Metcalf grantee and award-winning outlet The Local, explores the Inclusive Local Economies program and its focus on making precarious jobs better, supporting the upward mobility of workers, reducing barriers for low-income entrepreneurs and alternative business models, and leveraging the capacity of neighbourhoods to improve the economic livelihoods of low-income residents.

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Sparking Change: Catalysing The Social Impact of Parks in Underserved Neighbourhoods

Park People's report, Sparking Change, explores the social impacts of communities in underserved neighbourhoods becoming involved in animating and improving their local park.

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Participatory Canada

Participatory Canada invites residents and neighbourhoods to create practical everyday projects that build on local assets, meet local needs, and find common solutions to some of the most pressing, universal issues facing our generation.

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Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative

Over the course of three meetings, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (the committee) conducted a study on the SBCCI. This report outlines the findings of the committee’s study.