This webinar examines the recently released report by the University of Toronto’s Infrastructure Institute and the Somali Centre for Culture and Recreation on the critical need for Black social infrastructure in communities across Canada.

CIP hosted a free webinar entitled "Form-Based Code: From Theory to Practice" on February 7, 2022. The webinar was designed to demystify Form-Based Code, explain its benefits, and use local examples to explore how planners can use this tool in their planning practice.

On December 10, the webinar "Transportation Planning" explored how transportation planners from across Canada are beginning to drive fundamental change in the direction of safe, accessible, and sustainable urban spaces through the implementation of equity, resilience, and sustainability policies. 

This presentation critically explores, through a planning perspective, current approaches to policy intended to address the need for adaptation to climate change. By exploring and ultimately facilitating critical thinking about the many multifaceted aspects of climate change vulnerability, the barriers in planning practice that prevent adaptation policy from being truly effective and equitable are discussed. Ultimately, the presentation argues that the urgency and complexity of climate change requires overcoming socio-political barriers within the existing adaptation paradigm, balancing technocratic methods with a collaborative approach focusing on the social, economic, and ethical components of vulnerability to climate change. 

This presentation is a comprehensive overview of the current policies and actions plans at all levels of governance (Federal to Municipal) to mitigate the affordable housing crisis in British Columbia, specific to the affordable rental and subsidized housing sector. The work uses the 'Housing for All' framework to propose a shift in the value paradigm of the housing sector, apply system thinking for an integrated approach in the existing system, and propose economic sustainability across the lifecycle of the affordable housing projects. 

Rural communities are more vulnerable to climate change shocks and stresses due to community-based vulnerabilities associated with low and ageing populations, out-migration of youth, less funding distribution, and less access to skill based human resources. As a result of these vulnerabilities, the ability for the local governments to adequately prepare rural communities for the impacts of climate change is limited, contributing to reduced resilience. To address these vulnerabilities nature-based solutions and trade-offs have been examined to understand the scope in which they can be used to increase resilience in the context of rural communities. 

This presentation assesses how Ontario's Waste Sectoral Regulatory Regime (WSRR) can be strengthened to actively enforce the "full" producer responsibility model blue box program at the municipal level in Ontario. The study's findings also informs research on enabling political agency of producers towards efficacy of the blue box program. 

"Ethics in Planning" took place on Ocotber 28, and was centered on the ethical dilemmas planners face daily. During this webinar our speakers had a lively discussion about planners' ethical responsibility and how it applies in everyday scenarios. 

On August 25, CIP hosted the webinar "Planning for Disaster Resilience." In line with CIP's key policy priority of climate change planning, this session delved into the question of how we can plan communities that are more resilient while building capacity and managing risk.