2019 PROGRAM - BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES THROUGH RESILIENCE OCTOBER 28-30, 2019 - ICLEI Canada
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2019 PROGRAM
BUILDING BETTER COMM UNITIES
THROUGH RESILIENCE
OCTOBER 28-30, 2019
VICTORIA CONFERENCE CENTRE, VICTORIA, BC
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PLATINUM SPONSOR
In 2018, Canadians experienced $1.9 billion in insured losses from
catastrophic extreme weather events, according to CatIQ Inc. Add
in the economic losses that were uninsured as well as the social
impact of such catastrophes, and the need to build better
communities through resilience is clear.
Fortunately, a guide exists to what must be done to address
society’s most pressing needs by 2030: The United Nations’
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As a Canadian financial services co-operative offering insurance
and investment products, The Co-operators endorses the SDGs.
Meeting them will contribute to The Co-operators vision of being
a catalyst for a sustainable society and mission of financial
security for Canadians and their communities.
The 2019 Livable Cities Forum, which The Co-operators is proud
to support, promises to build momentum on at least four of The
Co-operators nine prioritized SDGs. These are also likely priorities
for many communities. They include: #3 Good Health &
Wellbeing, #11 Sustainable Cities & Communities, #13 Climate
Action, and #17 Partnerships for the Goals.
Join us in Victoria to build stronger communities through
collaborative action on climate change and resilience—and rise to
the challenge of meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development
Goals.
SUPPORTING LOCAL GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION ICLEI Canada is delighted to have brought 32 municipal representatives through our current climate action projects: Adaptation Changemakers and Together for Climate. Both of these multi-year projects are training and building agents of change for climate adaptation and resilience across Canada in 16 communities. Adaptation Changemakers is funded through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Climate Adaptation Partner Grants available through FCMs Municipalities for Climate Innovation Program (MCIP). MCIP, delivered by FCM and funded by the Government of Canada, is a five-year, $75-million program designed to support and encourage municipalities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Together for Climate is funded through the generous support of the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia. The Real Estate Foundation of BC has a vision of supporting land use and real estate practices that contribute to resilient, healthy communities and natural environments. SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS DISPLAY SPACES ICLEI CANADA THOUGHTEXCHANGE ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FEDERATION OF CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES
FORUM PARTNERS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Victoria is located on the traditional territories of the Songhees and
Esquimalt Nations. We raise our hands to the Songhees and Esquimalt
Nations in whose traditional territories we live and work. Hay sxw qa.
CITY OF VICTORIA
On the southern tip of Vancouver Island,
Victoria is a community of choice for its
temperate climate, natural beauty, recreational
sites and economic opportunities. Victoria has
a wealth of natural and man-made riches,
including stunning heritage architecture, ocean
views and mountain vistas. It is this rare juxtaposition of heritage charm, scenic
backdrop and modern city-scape that makes Victoria one of the most uniquely
special places in Canada.
Victoria is a welcoming and inclusive city. We have a rich and varied history, one of
many cultures. We have the oldest Chinatown in Canada and are proud of our First
Nations heritage. Victoria is built on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen
People (pronounced Le-KWUNG-en). The Songhees and Esquimalt Nations are
part of the Coast Salish family and are descendants of the Lekwungen family
groups.
ICLEI CANADA
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a
global network of over 1,750 local and regional
governments committed to sustainable urban
development. Active in 100+ countries, we influence
sustainability policy and drive local action for low
emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development. Our
Members and team of experts work together through peer exchange, partnerships
and capacity building initiatives to create systemic change for urban sustainability.
Headquartered in Toronto with offices hosted by the City of Victoria and Ville de
Montréal, we provide a wide range of services for local, provincial and federal
governments in support of developing sustainable, climate-ready communities.
Our network is made up of the municipalities that participate in our programs and
activities, representing Canada’s municipalities from the smallest towns to the
largest cities. It also includes our implementing partners – our funders and our
peers – who help us deliver a range of programs and activities. Most importantly,
our network is the local stakeholders and community members we bring together
with municipalities to create a local impact.
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SHIFT COLLABORATIVE
SHIFT Collaborative is a registered cooperative
that helps people make progress on tough
social and environmental challenges together.
Drawing on our experience designing and
facilitating collaboration and engagement for
systems change, we harness leading thinking
and practices for new results. These enable us
to build a better future together by tackling systems, not symptoms, and fostering
collaboration between sectors. SHIFT has worked on issues ranging from social
connectedness and inclusion to food security, climate change, and public health,
to name a few. For a decade we have worked together to support people and
groups make meaningful change on the real-world issues we all care about.
ACT (ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE TEAM),
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT, SFU
ACT has been exploring the risks posed by climate change and working across
sectors to bring together researchers,
practitioners, communities, NGOs and all
orders of government to identify adaptive
strategies and solutions since 2006.
ACT develops resources and tools to bridge
crucial, intersecting topics such as water and food security, extreme weather,
biodiversity, and adaptation-related funding. ACT is currently working with local
governments to identify key entry points and opportunities to simultaneously
reduce vulnerability and emissions in practice. Referred to as low carbon
resilience (LCR), this integrated approach to climate action has the potential to
streamline otherwise siloed planning processes, saving time and resources while
synergizing policy areas such as land-use, energy and water and
identifying multiplier benefits for health, biodiversity, and other community
priorities.
ICLEI Canada, the City of Victoria, SHIFT Collaborative, and the
Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) are proudly working together
to bring you the 2019 Livable Cities Forum.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
LEADERSHIP & LEGACY: USING POLITICAL LEA DERSHIP TO
BUILD COMMUNITY RESI LIENCE FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
Alongside the main program for the 2019 Forum, a day -long, interactive session is being
held for elected officials focusing on building social resilience, belonging and inclusion as
a key climate adaptation strategy. The day of dialogue and networking will result in a
collective Call to Action for local leaders to advance these issues and to call for support
for local action.
The Leadership & Legacy session is meant to highlight a coordinated story of leadership
at the local level and provide a showcase of the tangible outcomes that demonstrate the
real level action on resilience that is happening in cities.
25 YEARS OF CLIMATE ACTION,
YEARS OF PARTNERS FO R CLIMATE PROTECTION
The Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary!
Join ICLEI and FCM for a Cocktail Reception on Tuesday, October 29 at 5:30 PM (in the
Shaughnessy Ballroom) to celebrate. Swing by the PCP Booth, during the breaks or over
lunch, to reflect with graphic facilitator, Erica, on the last 25 years and your municipal
vision for the next 25 years. Capture thoughts on your municipality’s proudest moments
and ambitions for the future. See your answers sketched on the digital wall and
contribute to PCP’s visual representation of 25 Years of Climate Action!
ICLEI Canada works to advance action on climate
change and reduce our carbon footprint. This
focus has driven us to offer an almost entirely
plant-based menu throughout the 2019 Livable
Cities Forum.
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THOUGHTEXCHANGE
This year we are excited to be partnering with Thoughtexchange to enhance your
participation in the Forum. In the Opening Plenary, you will be invited to connect into
Thoughtexchange and share your reflections and ideas on building more resilient,
healthy, and equitable communities.
Thoughtexchange helps leaders crowdsource answers to questions in real time.
Everyone contributes, everyone learns, without bias. AI and machine learning ensure
everyone’s response gets considered by others. Powerful analysis tools instantly
surface valuable insights into key areas of agreement and disagreement. Leaders
can find common ground, inspire trust and use data to make decisions that get
immediate support. Everyone contributes and everyone learns.
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DAY 1
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
7:30 - 8:30 AM Registration and Light Breakfast Upper Pavilion
8:30 - 10:00 AM Welcome and Opening Plenary Salon AB
10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee and Networking Pre-function 1
Low carbon resilience (LCR): Synergies between
Saanich
adaptation and mitigation in practice
Infrastructure for the People: Opportunities for Leveraging
Oak Bay 1
10:30AM - 12:00 PM Co-benefits
Coming Together: Collaborative co-governance as a key
Oak Bay 2
towards resilience
Stories of Resilience in the Face of Climate Change Esquimalt
12:00 - 1:30 PM Networking Lunch Upper Pavilion
Who’s got the Power? Spheres of influence and systemic
Saanich
interdependencies for LCR
The Economics of Resilience: Understanding the business
Oak Bay 1
case for adaptation
1:30 - 3:00 PM
People, Pipes, or Both: Applying integrated thinking for
Oak Bay 2
resilient solutions
Social Resilience, Healthy Communities, and Climate
Esquimalt
Change
3:00 - 3:30 PM Coffee and Networking Pre-function 1
Why Green Your City? Aligning LCR and Eco-Based
Saanich
Planning
Does What Makes a Neighbourhood Great Also Make it
Oak Bay 1
Resilient?
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Livable Cities Require Resilient Infrastructure and Resilient
Oak Bay 2
People
Health and Equity in a Changing Climate: Understanding
Esquimalt
vulnerability to the health impacts of climate change
6:00 – 9:00 PM Mayor’s Dinner
An evening for all conference delegates to gather for dinner and
networking, and hear from our keynote speaker.
Musical guest: Kathryn Calder, Artist in Residence, City of Victoria
Introduction by: Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Keynote: Jennifer Keesmaat, Former Chief Planner, City of Toronto,
and Renowned Urbanist
Location: Crystal Garden (across the street from the Victoria Conference Centre)
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L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:30 – 10:00 AM Opening Plenary
Central Challenges and Key Opportunities for Building Climate
Resilient Healthy, and Equitable Communities
The impacts of climate change are being felt across social, built, natural, and economic
systems in complex, interconnected ways. More than ever, collaborative community-level
action is required to build sustainable, healthy, and equitable communities that are resilient
to the risks posed by the changing climate. Actions that transform and protect our cities
must play a role in fostering livable, thriving communities. The Opening Plenary of the
Forum will kick-off with a chance to meet the partners who will introduce the this year’s
themes and highlight the importance of taking a synergistic approach to advance resilience
at the local level. Following this, we will transition to a panel discussion among leaders
from various sectors to consider the central challenges and key opportunities to address
climate change while building more resilient, healthy, and equitable communities?
The plenary will close with an opportunity for delegates to share in table discussions what
drew them to the Forum, and through the Thoughtexchange platform the burning question
that they are holding on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Welcome from the Partners: ICLEI Canada, SHIFT Collaborative, and Adaptation to Climate
Change Team (ACT)
Plenary Chair: Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Plenary Speakers:
Sharmarke Dubow, Councillor, City of Victoria
Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician and Board President of Canadian Institute of
Physicians for the Environment
Mary Rowe, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The Co-operators
Group Ltd.
Multisolving offers a strategic approach to address
interconnected problems that are facing the
climate, human society, and our communities.
MULTISOLVING By focusing on the interconnection between
AN APPROACH FOR ACHIEVING issues, a multi-solving approach looks for
opportunities to solve two or more problems with
MULTIPLE BENEFITS FOR
the same budget and resources, and focuses on
RESILIENT + HEALTHY cutting across silos in order to get more people
COMMUNITIES involved using their political power, voices,
resources and passion – offering an opportunity to
bring in other perspectives and move further
faster.
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Low carbon resilience (LCR): Infrastructure for the People:
Synergies between adaptation Opportunities for leveraging
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
and mitigation in practice co-benefits
Both adaptation and mitigation act to Our infrastructure provides critical core
lower the risks and impacts of climate services like clean drinking water, flood
change. While the two responses have protection, and transportation – but
evolved separately, current research and what else could it do for us? Is there an
practice suggests that there are benefits opportunity to achieve other benefits
to coordinating both strategies in climate without significantly increasing costs?
action planning and implementation. Low This session will have participants
carbon resilience provides a new lens to explore the ways in which investments
contribute to municipal strategy and in infrastructure systems can be
operations in an integrated manner, leveraged to achieve benefits beyond
internalizing climate evidence and data the traditional services these systems
while also streamlining approaches that have typically been designed for.
save municipal resources, synergize Speakers will provide examples of real
policies and co-benefits, and coordinate world applications, successes, and
planning and implementation for challenges. Participants will contribute
effective climate governance in practice. to an interactive discussion designed
This session will provide an overview of to uncover further examples and
LCR, highlighting emerging research and identify new opportunities in their own
best practices.
Facilitators: Moderator: Jody Rechenmacher,
Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT Community Infrastructure Consultant
and Principal, Urban Systems Ltd.
Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead,
Low Carbon Resilience, ACT • Benefits and Limitations of
Municipal Natural Assets in
Panelists: Flood Management
Lisa Butler, Manager of
• Leslie King, Professor, School of Engineering Strategy, City of
Environment and Sustainability, Courtenay
Royal Roads University
• Skwah and Shxwhá:y Village
• Paul Ross, Branch Manager, First Nation Flood Protection-
Regional and Economic Community Benefits and
Development, City of Edmonton Partnerships
Lory Obserst, Director of
• Tami Rothery, Sustainability/ Operations, Skwah First Nation
Alternative Energy Coordinator, & David Blain, Director of
District of Summerland Planning and Engineering, City
of Chilliwack
• Tamsin Mills, Senior Sustainability
Specialist, City of Vancouver • Power of Parks and
Greenspaces: The community
benefits of social infrastructure
Masheed Salehomoum,
Program Lead, Park People
Room: Saanich
Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
Coming Together: Collaborative Stories of Resilience in the Face of
co-governance as a key towards Climate Change
resilience
From sea to sea, communities in Canada
Climate change response requires
are facing unprecedented conditions
collaborative, community-based
that are increasing the risk of floods and
approaches where governments and non-
wildfires. How can we prepare for,
government actors work together to
respond to and recover from such
assess risks, co-produce plans, and take
devastating events, to discover and
action. This session will present several
enhance the resilience in each other and
case studies of cross-sector partnerships,
collectively? Join us as we hear stories
including ingredients for success and key
about the firsthand experiences of
challenges, as well as the importance of
communities who have recently lived
equity in partnership planning.
through such extreme events, what has
Moderator: Jonas Roberts, Manager been learned, and where we need to
Met-Ocean Services and Atlantic turn next.
Sciences, Wood
Moderator: Erica Crawford, Director and
• The Role of Public Health in Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Adaptation Planning
Andrea Hamberg, Program • The Impacts of Flooding: Voices
Supervisor, Multnomah County of residents in Grand Forks, BC
Environmental Health City of Grand Forks
• New Directions in Planning for • Tending, Mending, Strengthening
Adaptation to Sea Level Rise and Weaving Social Fabric as the
Angela Danyluk, Senior Backdrop for Wellness
Sustainability Specialist, City of Fawna Bews, Community
Vancouver Capacity Project Strategic Lead,
Our High River
• EarthCare: Building resilience
through community-municipal • Living the Impacts of Climate
partnerships Change
Amy Coomes, Sustainability Nigel Deans, Research
Coordinator, EarthCare, City of Coordinator, Resilience by Design
Thunder Bay Lab, Royal Roads University
• The Power of Partnerships: Many • Youth Voices in Rebuilding and
hands make ‘lightish’ work Resilience
Hana Lapp, Climate Change Project Pamela Gerardo, Youth Voices
Coordinator, ICLEI Canada Rising, Fort McMurray
Room: Oak Bay 2 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 10DAY
DA Y 1 1
Who's got the Power? The Economics of Resilience:
Spheres of influence and systemic Understanding the business case
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
interdependencies for LCR for adaptation
Different departments, professions, actors, There are many lenses through which to
and orders of government develop and look at the economic perspectives of
administer adaptation and mitigation climate change, particularly from a
policies and plans. Effective climate action municipal perspective. With extreme
is increasingly determined by its alignment weather being more frequent and
and coherence with existing and emerging perceived as the new normal, decision-
policies, programs, and practices. In order makers are looking to understand the
to promote effective LCR it is important to financial impacts of these events, as well
align these influencers – their goals and as the business case for adapting and
practices. This session will explore the key minimizing risk. This session will explore
influencers and the nested inter- the economics of resilience through
dependencies that either enable or hinder three perspectives – the economic and
the development and implementation of social costs of climate change, climate-
integrated climate action at the municipal related financial risk disclosures, and
scale. Discussion of key influencers and investment opportunities for adaptation
potential levers that can mobilize LCR and resilience.
co-benefits at various scales of
Moderator: Al Douglas, President,
governance and practice will be explored.
Climate Risk Institute
Facilitators: • Advancing Climate Resiliency
Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT through Enhanced Financial
Reporting & Disclosure
Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead, Low
Paul Shorthouse, Senior Director,
Carbon Resilience, ACT
The Delphi Group
Panelists:
• The Giant Cost of Climate Change
• Edward Nichol, Senior Policy and
for Edmonton: The foundation of
Planning Analyst, Metro Vancouver
an economic case for climate
• Ewa Jackson, Managing Director, action
ICLEI Canada Richard Boyd, Director of
Research, All One Sky Foundation
• Robert LePage, Building Science
Research Engineer, RDH Building • The Economic Case for Building
Science Climate Resilience
Tom Ewart, Senior Manager
• Roy Brooke, Executive Director, of Sustainability,
Municipal Natural Assets Initiative The Co-operators Group Ltd.
• Climate Action Secretariat, BC
Ministry of Environment and
Climate Change Strategy
• Wilma Leung, Senior Manager,
Technical Research and Education,
BC Housing
Room: Saanich Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
People, Pipes, or Both: Applying Social Resilience, Healthy
integrated thinking for resilient Communities, and Climate
solutions Change
Canadian municipalities are in a period of How can we intentionally build
infrastructure assessment, renewal, and community resilience as part of the
investment; as decisions and investments in process of responding and adapting to
infrastructure are made, it is vital that these climate change, as well as other shocks
not only consider a climate adjusted future, and stressors facing communities? What
but also what the function and possible co- are the capacities and mindsets that
benefits of that infrastructure in a support resilience, and how can we pro-
community could be. This session will actively foster these? Sharing learnings
unpack resiliency both as an engineered from community case studies, this
(hard infrastructure) response and as a session will highlight initiatives focused
community planning (people-based) on increasing resilience through
response, strengthening the voice of and fostering greater social connectedness
need for integrated thinking and solutions. in local neighbourhoods.
Moderator: Graham Twyford-Miles, Moderator: Stacy Barter, Director and
Principal, Vancouver Sustainability and Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Resilience Team, Stantec
• Building Healthy & Resilient • Building Community and
Communities for Everyone Resilience in Multi-Unit Housing
(…it takes pipes and people!) Michelle Hoar, Project Director,
Jade Yehia, Regional Built Hey Neighbour Collective
Environment Consultant, Island
Health • Connect and Prepare: Building
community resilience through
• Preparing for Disaster: How neighbour-to-neighbour
community asset mapping can connections
support resilient water Sarah Hunn, Emergency
infrastructure Management Community
Shane O’Hanlon, Sustainable Liaison, City of Victoria
Development and Resilience
Consultant, Stantec • Neighbourhood Climate
Resilience: Lessons from the
• Increasing Resiliency at the Local Lighthouse Project
Level: Programs & capital Sheila Murray, Project Director,
investments in the City of Victoria Creating Resilience to Extreme
Sarah Webb, Manager, Sustainable Weather (CREW)
Transportation Planning and
Development, • Bouncing Forward Together:
City of Victoria Fostering social resilience
through place-based
engagement
Stacy Barter, Director and
Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Room: Oak Bay 2 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 12DAY
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Why Green Your City? Aligning Does What Makes a
LCR and Eco-based planning Neighbourhood Great Also
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Make it Resilient?
A compelling area for alignment is the
integration of adaptation and mitigation Local governments are working to
in considerations of infrastructure identify climate impacts, to assess
remediation, forecasting, and financing. key vulnerabilities, and to develop
This session explores the opportunities strategies that increase urban
available to local governments to retain resilience. However, as we build
and/or rehabilitate ecosystem services, resilience, it is important to recognize
conserve and/or enhance biodiversity, that tangible climate risks are often
utilize green infrastructure to buffer underpinned by an intangible system
against projected climate risks while also of attitudes, values, and cultural
deriving local strategies to reduce traditions that are rooted in place.
greenhouse gas emissions and achieve This session, using a fishbowl format,
co-benefits for overall property and will have a collaborative dialogue
cultural values, human health, social where the line between panelists and
equity, and biodiversity. Viewing the participants is blurred. As a group we
current infrastructure challenge as an will explore the role that placemaking
opportunity to create alignment and (or strengthening the connection
coherence in policy and planning, this between people and the places they
session will work with participants to share) has in building resilience to
identify municipal co-benefits of green both climate change and other
infrastructure planning. stressors.
Facilitators:
Moderators:
Deborah Harford, Executive Director, Ewa Jackson, Managing Director,
ACT ICLEI Canada
Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead, Sarah Shenstone-Harris, Climate and
Low Carbon Resilience, ACT Energy Planner, ICLEI Canada
“Fishbowl” Participants:
Panelists:
• Masheed Salehomoum,
• Emanuel Machado, Chief Program Lead, Park People
Administrative Officer, Town of • Robert Plitt, Executive Lead,
Gibsons
Evergreen
• Erin Desautels, Sustainability
• Shannon Miedema, Program
Planner, City of Surrey
Manager, Energy &
• Sarah Dal Santo, Natural Environment, Halifax Regional
Resources Planning Manager, Municipality
Tsleil-Waututh First Nation • Teresa Chan, Climate Change
• Susan Todd, President, Specialist, City of Mississauga
Solsticeworks
• Virginie Dufour, City Councillor
for Sainte-Rose, City of Laval
Room: Saanich Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
Livable Cities Require Health and Equity in a Changing
Resilient Infrastructure and Climate: Understanding vulnerability to
Resilient People the health impacts of climate change
Our city infrastructure is inextricably Climate change will affect all of us, but some
linked to the well-being of residents and communities and populations are at greater
the economy. Too often however, as we risk of experiencing health impacts from a
are planning for and designing new changing climate. Factors such as housing,
infrastructure systems we do not apply income, social support networks, and
a resilience lens to these decisions, community capacity all affect our ability to
instead looking solely at the physical respond and adapt to climate change. This
problem the infrastructure is meant to workshop will explore what health equity
solve – moving people from A to B, or means, and present ‘climate and health
diverting water more efficiently. This vulnerability assessments’ as an approach to
session will apply a resilience lens to inform adaptation actions to reduce negative
infrastructure planning and highlight health impacts and increase local resilience.
three innovative approaches that put
people first by highlighting the human Moderator: Kerri Klein, Director and Co-
founder, SHIFT Collaborative
and social benefits of infrastructure as
well as the value of human and social • Health Equity in a Warming World:
assets in municipal service delivery. Clarifying our imperative for public
health
Chris Buse, CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow,
Presenters:
University of British Columbia
• How Can the SDGs Drive Action • Climate Change: Peel Public Health’s
Towards More Livable Cities? Vulnerability Assessment
Reem Tanta, Socio-Economics Louise Aubin, Acting Director of Health
Lead, Wood Protection, Region of Peel Public Health
• Resilience Screening Tool: • Indigenizing Climate Health
Promoting the positive social, Conversations: Empowering
economic, and environmental communities and the value of asset-
benefits of infrastructure based approaches
Peter Nimmrichter, Climate, Paivi Abernethy, Climate Change and
Resilience and Sustainability Health Specialist, First Nations Health
Lead for Canada, Wood Authority & Denni Clement,
• Social Asset Management: Valuing Indigenous Engagement Consultant
and Writer (specialization in climate
and leveraging the potential
change)
of human and social assets in your
community • Climate Change and Health
Jody Rechenmacher, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Community Infrastructure Assessments: A tool for including health
Consultant and Principal, Urban equity into adaptation preparations
Systems Ltd. & Director, Rebekka Schnitter, Policy Analyst,
Urban Matters CCC Climate Change and Innovation Bureau,
Health Canada
Room: Oak Bay 2 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 14DAY 2
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
7:30 - 8:30 AM Registration and Light Breakfast Upper Pavilion
8:30 - 9:30 AM Morning Plenary Salon AB
9:30 - 9:45 AM Transition to Morning breakout sessions
Trends and Emerging Issues World Café Salon AB
Building Resilience Through the Intersection of Climate, Food
Saanich
and Health
9:45- 11:00 AM Greening and Cooling Playgrounds in Canada Oak Bay 1
Active Transportation for a Better World Oak Bay 2
Healthy Cities Research and the Role City Research Partnerships
Esquimalt
Play in Building Livable, Learning Cities
11:00 - 11:30 AM Coffee and Networking Pre-function 1
Extreme Heat, Health, and Collaborative Responses for Resilient
Saanich
Communities
Renewable Energy Transition: From commitment to
11:30 AM - Oak Bay 1
implementation
1:00 PM
Preparing for Climate Change Workshop: Using climate data in
Oak Bay 2
adaptation planning
#climatechange: Workshop exploring climate communications Esquimalt
1:00 - 2:00 PM Networking Lunch Salon AB
1:30 PM Visual performance: Łakwala nukwan tłus
Low Carbon Resilience Linkages: Synergies for infrastructure
Saanich
and health planning
One & All: Climate impacts on mental health and wellbeing Oak Bay 1
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Challenges and Opportunities in Resilient Building Design Oak Bay 2
Advancing our Knowledge for Action: Canada’s climate change
Esquimalt
assessment and you
3:30 - 5:00 PM Closing Plenary Salon AB
Shaughnessy
5:30—7:00 PM ICLEI & FCM Cocktail Reception
Ballroom
1:30 PM Visual performance
Łakwala nukwan tłus
“A love letter to mother earth ”
become a compass. stand still in your body. you are the fire in your belly that burns away and
consumes relentlessly. you are the resilient stones of your bones that ground. you are the lung
trees breathing in and out the heart wind of your words. you are river ways of life giving liquid.
what would it be to give voice to your intrinsic elemental form? how would you move and
speak? what questions would you ask? what reflection would you offer?
Performers: Denni Clement, Krystal Cook, Teka Everstz, Monique Salez
Room: Salon AB
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:30 – 9:30 AM Morning Plenary
Building on the conversations from the first day of the Forum, the morning plenary will
set the stage for the day – a solutions focused day that will leave delegates with
actionable ideas to apply in their communities. Our plenary speakers will offer some
initial reflections on the issues that we are grappling with in relation to building more
climate resilient, healthy and equitable communities as well as share what is hopeful
and exciting as we move forward. A panel discussion will close out the plenary with
the Moderator sharing a summary of the key themes from postings shared through
Thoughtexchange.
Moderator: Stacy Barter, Director and Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Plenary Speakers:
Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician and Board President of Canadian Institute of
Physicians for the Environment
Mary Rowe, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The
Co-operators Group Ltd.
9:45-11:00 AM Trends and Emerging Issues World Café
During this world café workshop, participants will have an opportunity to discuss specific
issues or emerging topics relating to themes of the 2019 Forum. The topics selected
represent the issues that are being talked about on a national stage or the ‘next’ things to
think about. Participants will be led through a series of short conversations by Table Hosts
who are familiar with each of the topics. Together, hosts and participants will explore
these emerging as well as ways to take collaborative action on them.
Moderator: Megan Meaney, Executive Director, ICLEI Canada
Table topics and hosts:
Regional approaches to resilience building Managing climate change and health
Cait Murphy, Fraser Basin Council outcomes
Louise Aubin, Region of Peel Public Health
Harnessing the power of youth
Kyle Empringham, The Starfish Canada Updating and maintaining infrastructure
Peter Nimmrichter, Wood
Advancing nature-based solutions
Laniel Bateman, Environment and Climate Supporting small and rural municipalities
Change Canada Summer Goulden, ICLEI Canada
Addressing climate equity and energy Financing climate action
poverty Yvonne Ritchie, Federation of Canadian
Sarah Shenstone-Harris, ICLEI Canada Municipalities
Role of the insurance and finance industry Using climate data in strategic planning
Tom Ewart, The Co-operators Group Ltd. Lo Cheng, Canadian Centre for Climate
Services
Room: Salon AB
16DAY
DA Y 21
Building Resilience Through the Greening and Cooling
Intersection of Climate, Food and Playgrounds in Canada
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Health
Food is at the crux of the intersections Designing for thermal comfort is vital
between climate change and individual and in the context of climate change.
community health. There is growing Researchers have called for a change
attention to issues of food security and food in policies and regulations to improve
system resilience at a community and thermal comfort in playground design.
regional level; the impacts of climate change Making play equipment and spaces
for food systems and, separately, for health, thermally comfortable in summer not
and the connections between food and only could minimize heat-related
individual and community health. The table illnesses but also help ensure that
has been set for us to take the next step of children can safely exercise and play
addressing the intersections between all outdoors in moderately hot
three and the implications for communities conditions. This panel discussion will
moving forward. In this session, we will be bring together experts from different
introduced to a newly developed framework professional backgrounds and
that links climate change impacts, food disciplines to discuss promising tools
security, the food system and health and actions for greening and cooling
outcomes, and hear from leading examples playgrounds in Canada.
of practice and research. Through facilitated
small group discussions, we will engage in Moderator: Marla Desat, Sector
dialogue to explore what’s next: how can we Specialist, Strategic Policy and
bring these pieces together to elevate and Stakeholder Engagement, Standards
inspire more integration across these three Council of Canada
fields of research and practice? • Greening School Grounds with
Tree Canada
Moderator: Erica Crawford, Director, and
Christian Walli, Community
Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Advisor, Tree Canada
• Assessing Climate Risk and Engaging
Community Action for Food • Technical Report: Thermally
Resilience Comfortable Playgrounds
Jill McDowell, Health Promotion Heather Olsen, Executive
Specialist, Toronto Food Strategy, Director, National Program for
Toronto Public Health Playground Safety
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Thermal Comfort at Windsor’s
Parks and Playgrounds
Pathways: Supporting BC
communities into an uncertain future
Karina Richters, Supervisor,
Liese Coulter, Research Fellow in Environmental Sustainability
Climate Risk Storylines, University of and Climate Change, City of
Leeds Windsor
• Climate Change, Food Security, and
Human Health: A framework for
protecting population health
Rebekka Schnitter, Policy Analyst,
Climate Change and Innovation
Bureau, Health Canada
Room: Saanich Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Active Transportation for a Healthy Cities Research: The role city
Better World research partnerships play in building
livable, learning cities
How we move matters, whether we walk,
Over the next decade, factors including
ride or roll. The built environment has a
climate change, aging populations,
profound impact on shaping how active
technological innovation and more than $180
and healthy we are as individuals, and
billion of Federal Government investment in
how livable, sustainable, and resilient we
community infrastructure projects will
are as communities. As part of the
contribute to significant change in Canadian
Province of British Columbia’s CleanBC
cities. Innovative policy, program and
plan to build a better future, the BC Active
infrastructure responses present an enormous
Transportation Design Guide was released
opportunity to learn about how to maximize
along with Move Commute Connect –
the health potential of cities. The Canadian
BC’s Active Transportation Strategy to
Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) new
help transform how we get around in a
interdisciplinary Healthy Cities Research
way that preserves dignity, reduces
Initiative aims to capitalize on this learning
pollution, and leads to better health
opportunity to better understand how we can
outcomes, while making communities
design, build and support healthier, more
cleaner and more livable. The Design
equitable cities. This session will explore how
Guide responds to the increasingly
municipalities and local decision-makers can
important role that active transportation
harness city change to improve health and
infrastructure is playing to improve public
resilience at home and in other communities.
safety and reduce automobile
dependency. In this interactive session,
Moderator: Marisa Creatore, Assistant
come learn how we can achieve livable Director, CIHR Institute of Population and
cities through people powered Public Health
transportation!
• Toronto Public Health: Building a
Move Commute Connect and the Design Healthier City for All
Eileen de Villa, Medical Officer of
Guide are available at: cleanbc.gov.bc.ca/
Health, City of Toronto
active!
• Victoria: Recent experiments in
research partnerships
Presenters: Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
• Jesse Skulmoski, Director of
Strategic Initiatives and Active
• Dialogue and Data: Recipe for
successful healthy city research
Transportation Grants, BC Ministry
Meghan Winters, Associate Professor,
of Transportation and
Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon
Infrastructure
Fraser University
• Brian Patterson, Active
Transportation Specialist, Urban
Systems Ltd.
Room: Oak Bay 2 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 18DAY
DA Y 21
Extreme Heat, Health, and Renewable Energy Transition:
Collaborative Responses for From commitment to
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Resilient Communities implementation
Canadians are experiencing more
Only a small number of cities in Canada
frequent and extreme heat events. As
have committed to 100% renewable
the risk of health impacts from
energy. Being the first to do so means
extreme heat is expected to continue
that these cities will face new challenges
rising, it is critical we work together
(and opportunities) such as approaching
across sectors to prepare and increase
the transition towards renewable energy
the resilience of our communities.
with a lens of equity and social resilience.
Fortunately, efforts are underway to
This session will draw on examples, best
address the health risks of extreme
practices, and lessons learned from
heat in a number of communities and
municipalities and community renewable
sectors across the province. This
energy transition projects. The session
workshop will explore the impacts of
will focus on how renewable energy
rising temperatures on health and
transition can have an impact on health,
well-being and introduce short and
broader infrastructure decisions, and at
long-term actions (e.g. Heat Alert and
the same time be an integral step
Response Systems) to adapt to rising
towards low carbon resilience.
temperatures and increase
community resilience to heat. Moderator: Devin Causley, Manager,
Capacity Building, Municipalities for
Facilitator: Kerri Klein, Director and Climate Innovation Program, Federation
Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative of Canadian Municipalities
• Local Governments, Climate • Oxford County: Towards
Change, and Extreme Heat: sustainability
From vulnerability to resiliency David Mayberry, Past Warden,
Amy Lubik, Policy Analyst, Oxford County & Mayor, Township
Fraser Health Authority and of South-West Oxford
Councillor, City of Port Moody
• Developing a Harmonized
• Halifax’s Climate Action through a
Lens of Equity and Inclusion
Heat Warning and Information
Shannon Miedema, Manager,
System for Ontario
Energy & Environment, Halifax
Kevin Behan, Deputy Director,
Regional Municipality
Clean Air Partnership
• Extreme Heat Risk & • Drake Landing Solar Community:
Resilience in Social Housing A case study
Magdalena Szpala, Senior Sheri Young, Climate Change and
Sustainability Advisor, BC Energy Specialist, Town of
Housing Okotoks
• Victoria’s Climate Leadership
Plan: Year one
Steve Young, Climate and
Environmental Sustainability
Specialist, City of Victoria
Room: Saanich Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Preparing for Climate Change #climatechange: Workshop
Workshop: Using climate data in exploring climate communications
adaptation planning
This interactive workshop will introduce Try your hand at identifying target
participants to one of the first steps of audiences, framing key messages, and
adaptation planning. Participants will choosing messengers. This interactive
explore how to find climate data and how workshop will explore the tips and tricks for
to use it to explore system-wide, localized how to engage different groups in
impacts from climate change through a resilience planning and implementation.
hands-on activity. The workshop will Participants will learn from experienced
highlight freely available online sources of communicators how to segment
Canadian climate data and ICLEI’s Building audiences, frame messages, seize timing,
Adaptive and Resilient Communities and much more. Using real life climate
(BARC) framework. This session will be at change solutions this workshop will give
an introductory level. No previous participants a chance to ask questions, try
experience with climate data required. their hand at developing a communications
strategy, and leave with some tools they
can apply in their day-to-day work.
Facilitators:
• Isabelle Charron, Lead, Knowledge Facilitators:
Mobilization, OURANOS
• Effective Climate Communications:
• Kari Tyler, User Engagement and Exploring communications
Training Specialist, Pacific Climate solutions
Impacts Consortium Ewa Jackson, Managing Director,
ICLEI Canada
• Lo Cheng, Executive Director,
Canadian Centre for Climate • Beyond Town Halls: Immersive
Services community engagement in
Mississauga
• Stephanie Austin, Policy Advisor, Leya Barry, Climate Change
Canadian Centre for Climate Specialist, City of Mississauga
Services
• Christina Schwantes, Climate
Change Project Coordinator, ICLEI
Canada
• Hana Lapp, Climate Change Project
Coordinator, ICLEI Canada
Room: Oak Bay 2 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 20DAY
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Low Carbon Resilience Linkages: One & All: Climate impacts on
Synergies for infrastructure and mental health and wellbeing
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
health planning
Canadian communities have been facing
Low carbon resilience (LCR) provides a extreme, and in some cases repeated,
new lens to design and develop wildfire and flood events in recent years.
communities, accounting for climate In addition, many communities and
evidence and data, while also individuals are experiencing more
streamlining approaches that save ongoing, chronic stresses related to the
municipal resources, synergize policies impacts of climate change such as
for more effective integration, and drought, impacts on traditional foods, and
coordinate planning and rising food costs. Experiencing and
implementation for effective anticipating increasingly intense or
governance in practice. This session repeated shocks and stressors has
will explore strategic linkages between significant implications for mental health
climate action planning and and well-being. Join this session to hear
infrastructure planning, including perspectives from academia and the
opportunities to consider co-benefits frontlines of community experience,
with broader community health about the impacts of climate change for
planning. mental health and well-being, and to
Facilitators: discuss the opportunities for communities
to enhance resilience, together.
Deborah Harford, Executive Director,
ACT
Facilitator: Stacy Barter, Director and
Alison Shaw, ICABCCI Research Lead,
Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative
Low Carbon Resilience, ACT
• Action Feels Better than Anxiety:
Panelists:
Active coping and climate change
• Angie Woo, Climate Resilience in Canada's North
and Adaptation Lead, Fraser Courtney Howard, Emergency
Health Authority Physician and Board President,
Canadian Association of
• Anita Ely, Environmental Health Physicians for the Environment
Officer, Interior Health
Authority • The Community Wellness Project:
Mental health and wellness
• Chris Osborne, Acting recovery strategies after the BC
Supervisor, Long Range wildfires, flooding and other
Planning & Sustainability, City of impacts
Campbell River Laura Dewar, Community
Wellness Manager and Research
• Karina Richters, Supervisor, Lead, United Way Thompson-
Environmental Sustainability Nicola Cariboo
and Climate Change, City of
Windsor • Making the Links between Climate
Change and Mental Health
• Katie McPherson, Chief Katie Hayes, University
Resilience Officer, City of of Toronto, Dalla Lana School
Vancouver of Public Health
Room: Saanich Room: Oak Bay 1
Full speaker bios can be accessed online at www.livablecitiesforum.com/speakersL I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing our Knowledge for
Resilient Building Design Action: Canada’s climate change
assessment and you
Climate change impacts facing the building
This interactive session will allow
sector translates into a growing need to
participants to learn more about Canada’s
procure, design, renovate and run our
National Climate Change Assessment
buildings in a way that will reduce emissions
process, and provide their input on the
while simultaneously improving local health
draft key messages from the report that
and enhancing community resilience. These
are relevant to the themes of the
layers of requirements are posing increasing
conference. Participants will be asked to
challenges, with important implications for
comment on the key messages’ content,
how we regulate and support the building
wording and relevance, and discuss
industry. Fortunately, with constraint comes
potential spin-off uses and products, as
the opportunity for creativity. To deepen our
well as future directions. This will help
understanding of how to create healthy,
resilient and low-carbon buildings, we will
ensure that the assessment is relevant to
hear from the experiences of two local the important target audiences
property owners, as well as lessons learned represented by Livable Cities’ attendees.
from participants in BC Housing’s Mobilizing
Building Resilience and Adaptation (MBAR) Panelists:
project. Participants will be given an
opportunity to share insights and brainstorm • Setting the Stage: Assessment
process, goals and products
means of overcoming the regulatory,
Fiona Warren, Knowledge
perceptual, informational, and financial Assessment Manager, Natural
barriers to resilient buildings. Resources Canada
Moderator: Lisa Westerhoff, Principal, • Things You Need to Know About
Climate and Sustainability Policy, Integral the Costs and Benefits of Climate
Group Impacts and Adaptations
Richard Boyd, Director of
• From Strategy to Action: Overcoming Research, All One Sky Foundation
barriers to resilient buildings
Lisa Westerhoff, Principal, Climate • Climate Impacts and Adaptation
and Sustainability Policy, Integral in Canada’s Cities and Towns
Group Craig Brown, Project Lead,
Climate Change and Health
• Resilience in Concert: Building Adaptation Planning, Vancouver
enduring communities Coastal Health
Dave Ramslie, VP Sustainability,
Concert Properties • Adaptation Progress and Impacts:
What Makes Ontario Different?
• From Global to Local: QuadReal’s Al Douglas, President, Climate
early day thinking about climate Risk Institute
change resiliency
Matthew Strand, National Manager • Impacts and Adaptation: Key
of Health and Safety, QuadReal & messages for British Columbia
Christa Wilcock, Director of Robert Gifford, Professor,
Development, QuadReal University of Victoria
Room: Oak Bay 1 Room: Esquimalt
Presentations will be available online November 15 at www.livablecitiesforum.com/program 22DAY
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S 2
3:30 – 5:00 PM Closing Plenary
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The final plenary session will offer delegates a chance to reflect on what they have
learned and how it will affect their thinking moving forward. Working in tables,
participants will share their thoughts and discuss two questions:
• Given your learning over the last two days, share one or two key insights you
have had around building more climate resilient, healthy, and equitable
communities.
• How will what you have learned affect your thinking and action moving
forward?
Following these conversations, we will end the day with a personal call to action
where each of us will commit to three actions – one we can take within 24 hours, one
we can take within 24 days, and finally one we can take within 24 months. Together
we can set the baseline for what we will achieve by the time we gather again in
Victoria in 2021!
Moderators: Ewa Jackson, Managing Director, ICLEI Canada, Kerri Klein, Director
and Co-founder, SHIFT Collaborative and Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT
Room: Salon AB
5:30 – 7:00 PM ICLEI & FCM Cocktail Reception
Celebrate the Partners for Climate Protection Program’s 25th anniversary!
Room: Shaughnessy Ballroom, Lower Lobby Level, Fairmont Empress
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
9:00 AM—2:30 PM Victoria Idea Camp Workshop
An opportunity for municipalities to connect, share, and ask questions around
smart cities, which achieve meaningful outcomes for residents through the use of
data and connected technology. The conversation will explore the connection
between smart cities approaches and how digitization and information technology
can provide opportunities to achieve broader resilience goals.
Welcome by Lisa Helps, Mayor, City of Victoria
Facilitators: ICLEI Canada and Evergreen
Room: Esquimalt
23L I VA B L E C I T I E S F O R U M
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
7:30 - 8:30 AM Registration and Light Breakfast Upper Pavilion
9:00 AM– 12:00 PM Local Study Tours Depart from Pre-function 1
9:00 AM– 2:30 PM Workshop: Victoria Idea Camp Esquimalt
Exploring Urban Food Systems
Learn about the innovative ways Victoria is cultivating community while increasing the
amount of food grown in the city. Visit a community commons garden, a youth learning
garden, a community orchard, an allotment garden and boulevard gardens. We will also visit
a small-scale commercial urban food producer, growing and selling food crops right here in
the City. Note: The tour includes a 2 km walk (round trip), rain or shine, come prepared.
Snacks will be provided.
Leaders: Alex Harned, Food Systems Coordinator, City of Victoria and Aaren Topley, Senior
Consultant, Public Health Association of BC.
Community Building, Equity, and Wellbeing: A multi-modal tour in Victoria
In order to accommodate new growth and support objectives on climate action, health,
economic development and community resiliency, the City of Victoria is transforming the
built environment to increase mode share for cycling, walking and public transit. On the
journey, participants will visit different sites to learn about City programs, investments,
partnerships and projects that improve the well-being of residents, encourage social
connections, demonstrate community building and celebrate the important history and
culture in the Capital City.
Note: This tour will be a true multi-modal experience. Participants should expect moderate
physical activity and be prepared for an all-weather tour. Bicycles and helmets will be
provided for the cycling portion of the tour.
Leader: Sarah Webb, Manager, Sustainable Transportation Planning and Development,
& Tim Hewett, Interdisciplinary Planner, Transportation Division, Engineering and Public
Works, City of Victoria
People, Place & Community Passion: Building Connectedness through
Placemaking Across Victoria
Like other cities across Canada, Victoria is alive with activities and projects that aim to
improve community connectedness and shape our public spaces for the common good.
This interactive bicycle tour will visit some Victoria’s most creative placemaking sites,
experience different neighbourhoods, and hear from local champions about initiatives that
are all about connecting people to the places they live. From traffic calming and “pocket
places,” to public art and emergency preparedness, come on a journey to be inspired by
projects and processes that foster healthier, happier and more resilient communities.
Note: This tour is by bicycle. Participants should expect moderate physical activity and be
prepared for an all-weather tour. Bicycles and helmets will be provided.
Leaders: Greater Victoria Placemaking Network, City of Victoria’s Neighbourhoods Team,
and SHIFT Collaborative’s Building Resilient Neighbourhoods initiative.
24THANK YOU TO ALL THE DELEGATES, SPEAKERS,
SPONSORS, STAFF, AND VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE
MADE THE 2019 LIVABLE CITIES FORUM OUR MOST
SUCCESSFUL YET.
To reduce consumption and at the same time support important work happening
in Victoria, in lieu of delegate swag and speaker gifts, a donation has been made
to the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness on behalf of the speakers
and delegates of the 2019 Livable Cities Forum.
The Coalition was formed in 2008 with a mission to end homelessness in the
capital region. The Coalition consists of local housing, health and social service
providers; non-profit organizations; all levels of government; businesses; the faith
community; people with a lived experience of homelessness (past or present); and
members of the general public. This diverse membership comes together to
collectively address the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness in the
capital region.
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