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Keynote: Gregg Lintern - The Challenge and Opportunity of Uneven Growth

As has been the case for some time now, Toronto is growing. We welcome 40,000 new residents every year on average, including 77,000 in the last year alone, and the GTA is expected to grow to nearly 10 million people by 2041. However, this unprecedented growth has not been expe...

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100: Planning Climate Resilient Communities

This session will address how the current and upcoming climate-induced changes result in the fundamental need for municipalities to question how they undertake all aspects of service delivery from planning, development, investment and re-investment. Highlighting City of Waterl...

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104B: The County Court Community Neighbourhood Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan

While there are a number of robust, regional vulnerability assessments completed for various sectors across the Region of Peel, there is a need to obtain local knowledge, perceptions and observations to inform climate actions at the neighbourhood level. Climate Ready County C...

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106: Growth Management: Municipal Cemetery Planning for Ontario

This session presents the importance of cemetery planning as a land use, and an important component of communities. The discussion will address short and long term opportunities to mitigate the impacts of uneven growth, by highlighting policy voids and opportunities within pl...

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202A: Collaborative Planning for Climate Change – Durham Region Case Study

Durham Region is the 2018 winner of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainable Communities Award (Climate Change). Hear about the Region’s work to collaboratively bring together and engage planners (upper/lower tier municipal, conservation authorities) and industr...

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202B: A Risk-Based Approach to Climate Change Planning in the Town of Ajax

The Town of Ajax has been impacted by several significant climatic events in recent years which have led to property damage, disruption to transportation and energy systems and economic and social impacts to the community. The ability for communities to adapt and respond to th...

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400: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Planning with First Nations Communities

Building on the session at OPPI’s 2018 Symposium, this session will continue to showcase leadership on climate change impacts and adaptation from First Nations in Ontario. This session will demonstrate stories of relationship building and partnerships and how they contribute t...

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