This presentation focuses on three high-profile and ongoing pipeline protests over the past five years: Standing Rock Sioux opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, Giniw Collective activism against Line 3, and Wet'suwet'en resistance to Coastal GasLink at the Unist'ot'en Camp. Each of these protests serves as a case study of one element of planning: sovereignty, values, and futurity. Recognizing Indigenous pipeline protests as planning is importanct because it disrupts the reification of planning by the settler state and affirms Indigenous self-determination. Understanding how Indigenous communities continue to plan under occupation and affirming that as planning will allow settler planners to shift towards models of co-governance rather than domination. 

PLACE is a national planning and geography conference that takes place every fall. Every year, a group of students organize PLACE, bringing together like-minded students, professionals, and others from across Canada to present research and discuss topics in geography and planning. 

This year, PLACE 21 was offered virtually, organized by VIU Masters student volunteers, and hosted by the Canadian Institue of Planners on their GoTo Webinar platfrom. 

This webinar highlighted the newly transformed approach to health and wellness planning in British Columbia (BC), including sharing more about Health and Wellness Planning: A Toolkit for BC First Nations and available supports, the BC First Nations Perspective on Health Wellness, and the Planning, Reporting and Evaluation Standards.

This webinar highlighted the perspectives, tools, and techniques of land use planning under Land Codes and demonstrated how it provides an opportunity for rebuilding trust. 

In this webinar we learned how 50 agencies including non-profit organizations and government agencies such as the Saskatoon Tribal Council, have come together to address the Covid-19 crisis.

Métis-Cree community planner and filmmaker Kamala Todd talked about how every Canadian city is an Indigenous City, and what that means for planning in the urban context and Jocelyn Joe-Strack shared her experiences of involvement with Comprehensive Community planning, reflecting on how her background as a scientist has influenced her understanding about how Indigenous approaches to planning can be crucial in tackling climate change. 

In this webinar, we heard from Elder Joe Copper Jack, who presented his Land and People's Reconciliation model, which he has developed  to help communities in the Yukon.

In this webinar, we explored the relationship between legislative tools intented to uphold the rights of Indigenous peoples, as they relate to planning. 

In this webinar, we learned from the teaching of two highly experienced Indigenous planners, who, as well as playing leading roles in their own communities, have helped others, including governments, to understand planning through an Indigenous lens.  

The City of Vancouver and Vancouver Park Board have embarked on a journey to create a values-driven park that connects people to land and water, inspired by and supporting Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh cultural practices --a physical expression of Reconciliation. This presentation described the innovative engagement process with local First Nations to understand more deeply the values and principles that matter to them, how this process is changing the way staff works day-to-day, and how it translates into a living urban park in the heart of Vancouver.