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203: Planning and Public Health – Coming Together on Climate Change.

Climate change is already affecting the health of Canadians, and is expected continue throughout the 21 st Century. Impacts are widespread, and can be both direct (including injuries and illness from extreme weather events) and indirect (such as access to affordable food and...

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602A - How Transformational Climate Action is Key to Unlocking Sustained Economic Development in an

The last year has seen unprecedented change in how people live and work. While historical economic development approaches have focused heavily on the attraction of businesses, we are recognizing that white-collar workers will increasingly work remotely. For our communities to ...

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304: Cross-Sector Collaboration Between School Boards and Municipal Planning Departments

Working with community partners, specifically municipal planning staff, is a key part of school board planning. Maintaining relationships between school board staff and municipalities ensures all parties are aligned when planning for future growth and the use of public assets....

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Justin Jones - MA. IAP2

Justin is a facilitation specialist and Project Lead at WSP, focusing on projects relating to active transportation planning, Complete Streets Design, Trails Implementation, and Age-Friendly Communities. He brings a spirit of collaboration and communication to each of his proj...

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SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (AGGREGATE)

EMPLOYER:  Halton Region LOCATION : Oakville, ON DEADLINE DATE : August 13, 2022 At the Region of Halton, we treat everyone with respect, honesty, fairness and trust. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to establishing a qualified workforce that is refle...

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Land and Truth/Land and Reconciliation

The planning profession’s growing interest in Indigenous communities parallels the slow awareness in Canada generally of the history of colonization and its aftermath. This is a sobering reality – the ‘truth’ part of Truth and Reconciliation. Here are some snapshots from that ...

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How contemporary colonialism limits the potential of Indigenous placemaking

Photo by Fan Joo from Pexels. Indigenous Peoples in Canada have lost so much throughout the process of colonization: their people, their traditional practices and heritage, and their land and the deep connection to it. Furthermore, forced assimilation of Indigenous Peop...

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Ontario’s Planners Gather to Plan for Societal Change in Province’s Communities

Ontario’s Planners Gather to Plan for Societal Change in Province’s Communities Toronto – The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) kicks off its 2020 virtual conference (OPPI20) taking place over four days: September 23 & 30 and October 7 & 14, 2020 – discussing e...

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How are Official Plans currently including Indigenous rights and communities?

Photo by Fan Joo from Pexels. In June 2019, OPPI’s Indigenous Planning Perspectives Task Force released a report detailing what must be done to include Indigenous perspectives in the planning profession. To assist this momentum, the Shared Path Consultation Initiativ...

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Urban Planning and Anti-Black Racism in Canada: reflections on the past as a way to promote a better

Historical events, such as the social hierarchization of racial groups, have not only centrally defined the experiences of many Black people in the last millennium through the justification of slave labor practices in the Western world, but the residual effects of such thought...

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