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Y Magazine

Y Mag Cover Mockup Formerly called the Ontario Planning Journal, Y Magazine is OPPI's publication discussing the role and value of Registered Professional Planners (RPPs), exposing economic, social, and infrastructure issues, and exploring the leading practices and emerging trends in the planning profession.

The "Y" in Y Magazine symbolizes two paths: decision-making and guiding a way forward. Both rely on the abilities and expertise that our RPPs use to help inform choices and inspire communities.

Why Y Magazine

Ontario’s communities, leaders and citizens of influence will face unprecedented change over the next 25 years. Major issues like affordable housing, demographics and truth and reconciliation mean thoughtful decisions must be made now, for the future, over short-term fractured solutions that will threaten the sustainability of our communities. It is a true fork in the road. Y Magazine is designed to shape the conversation around those changes, the choice between one path over the other.  

Who reads Y Magazine

All of our 5,000 members receive every issue of Y Magazine, including our full members (RPPs), candidate members, and student members, as well as our public subscribers who have an interest in community planning.

Professional planners work in the public, private, educational, and not-for-profit sectors, and in the most impactful fields including urban and rural development, urban design, environmental planning, transportation, health, social services, heritage conservation, housing, and economic development.

Y Magazine themes

Every issue of Y Magazine features big issues, solutions, success stories, and the people who are leading the change. Two issues are published each year in Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. 
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Transportation and mobility
From bike lanes to tunnels, highways to public transit, accessibility to affordability, transportation is a very hot topic in Ontario. Decisions about how to move people and products efficiently around the province are about far, far more than just vehicles. Considerations such as city and neighbourhood zoning and planning, location of community services and schools, access to employment areas, environmental impact, and infrastructure costs. Factor in climate change, provincial legislation and policies, and the principles of healthy communities. Planners understand all the angles and work to ensure the best solutions for Ontario communities, now and into the future. The spring / summer issue of Y Magazine is a focus on all forms of transportation and mobility and the perspectives that go into moving Ontario forward safely and efficiently.

Looking ahead
By nature, planners are forward thinkers, always considering the effect decisions made today will have on the future of our communities. That means planning neighbourhoods where families can grow up safely and affordably. It means protecting green spaces and waterways for healthy, accessible recreation and to help mitigate some of harshest effects of climate change. It means considering the needs of rural communities and supporting agriculture. It means building communities where everyone is welcome. To accommodate all these factors in decisions, planners follow trends, engage with communities, and pay close attention to changes in policies. Informing choices and inspiring communities also meaning adapting the planning profession to better serve the public. The fall/winter issue of Y Magazine looks ahead at the changes and innovations planners see on the horizon and how they will influence Ontario communities.


 

CONTRIBUTE to Y Magazine

Y Magazine is written largely by OPPI members and edited to cater to a broader, general audience who have an interest in community planning. If you've written and article, conducted research, or have a compelling idea that you think would be a good fit for our magazine, we encourage you to get in touch. If we can't accommodate your article in Y Magazine, consider contributing to our Planning Exchange Blog.
 
Review our editorial guidelines
Editorial guidelines

Who to contact with any questions
editor@ontarioplanners.ca

READ Y Magazine

The digital version of Y Magazine is free! Anyone can flip through current issues of the magazine, or read back issues online. Choose between the handy flipbook version, or download the PDF to read on any device. 

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Using a deep relationship with Ontario’s planning profession to create a platform of unique and bias-free content, our editorial delves into the big issues, solutions, success stories and people who lead change. It has become an invaluable resource of information and inspiration across the province for thousands of elected offi cials, community staff, engaged residents, business leaders and owners, and community leaders who serve our communities in all capacities.

Professional planners partner with community leaders in a variety of disciplines and areas to affect positive, sustainable, long-term change. With Y Magazine, advertisers will target change shapers paving the way in business and economics, property development, engineering, architecture, law, environmental science and policy, public health, and researchers in all of these areas and more. The change shapers that Y Magazine targets have an employment income averaging more than $110,000 annually (2016 Census, Statistics Canada).

Advertising conditions
  • Rates quoted are guaranteed until the end of the year.
  • All rates apply to both colour and black & white reproduction.
  • All rates include links to embedded website and email addresses in the online version.
  • Advertising material must meet OPPI’s advertising standards before set-up begins.
  • No agency discounts allowed.
  • OPPI shall not be held liable for failure, for any cause, to post an advertisement. 
  • Verbal agreements are not recognized.

Who to contact with any questions
advertising@ontarioplanners.ca

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