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On-Demand Courses

Build your skills and knowledge through structured courses designed to support your professional growth. Explore guided learning experiences developed with subject matter experts, with content you can apply directly to your work.

CIP members can access all on-demand courses by logging into the Member Area.

Not a member? Become a Public Subscriber to unlock access to on-demand courses for an additional fee and begin your learning journey. Learn more about becoming a CIP member here.

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Advancing Housing Priorities Through Planning Solutions

These four courses explore key housing priorities and planning solutions, ensuring alignment with the current housing context and the critical role planners play in mitigating the housing crisis. Participants will examine practical strategies to support housing delivery, including supportive and transitional housing, innovative approaches to supply, urban retrofitting, and streamlining approvals processes.

1

Integrating Supportive and Transitional Housing into Complete Communities

  • Evaluate strategies to address key challenges in transitional and supportive housing planning and development
  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of key participants in transitional and supportive housing development
  • Explain the planner’s role in transitional and supportive housing development
2

Scaling Prefabricated and Modular Construction

  • Describe the main applications of prefabricated housing in Canada
  • Explain the planner’s role in the prefabricated housing development process
  • Identify solutions to the key challenges in prefabricated housing planning and development
3

Unlocking Housing Supply Through Adaptive Reuse, Infill & Regeneration

  • Describe the main applications of urban retrofitting in Canada, including adaptive reuse, infill, and regeneration
  • Explain the planner’s role across the processes of urban retrofitting
  • Identify strategies to address key challenges in urban retrofitting planning and development
4

Streamlining the Planning Approvals Process

  • Explain the planner’s role at each stage of the development approvals process
  • Describe common challenges associated with each stage of the development approvals process
  • Critically evaluate the approvals process in your planning context
  • Identify best practices to streamline the approvals process in your planning context
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The Path: Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada

CIP is pleased to offer the online Indigenous cultural awareness course “The Path: Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada”, created by NVision, a majority Indigenous-owned consulting company dedicated to empowering Indigenous communities. The Path is an acclaimed six-module course on the history and contemporary realities of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis from coast-to-coast-to-coast. 

The modules cover the following topics:

1

Name Calling

This module introduces participants to the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis of Canada, and debunks many of the stereotypes that shape perceptions of them.

2

Land, People, and Stories

This module looks at the historical and cultural roots of the First Nation and Inuit societies that have existed here for thousands of years, and the emergence of Métis as a distinct people.

3

Canada’s Colonial History

This module traces the tangled path of Indigenous/Crown history, from first contact through the historic treaties, right up to the events that shape their rapidly evolving relationship today.

4

Contemporary Realities

This module explains how the events of the past have shaped contemporary Indigenous life and reality and continue to challenge modern Indigenous communities. 

5

Relationship Building

This module explores the ways in which Indigenous society remains deeply rooted in rich and diverse cultural values and traditions, and how understanding those can build positive individual and inter-societal communication and relationships.

6

Towards Truth and Reconciliation

The final module examines and celebrates the milestones marking legal and social progress over the last two decades, while looking ahead at the work still to be done. 

Understanding AI-Assisted Regulatory Workflows

CIP is pleased to offer our members free access to Understanding AI-Assisted Regulatory Workflows, a training course designed by Trax and supported by DIGITAL.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we work – but you don’t need to be a tech expert to understand and benefit from it. Whether you are new to AI or are already using it, this practical, hands-on course is designed to be a high-level introduction for professionals working with regulations, such as building officials, inspectors, planners, fire prevention officers and First Nations who want to explore what AI can (and can’t) do in their professional context. 

Through case studies and guided activities, you’ll learn how to approach AI tools informed, critically, and responsibly. Along the way, you’ll gain the experience of effectively collaborating with an AI tool, through designing and refining effective ‘prompts’, AI-assisted permit reviews, and regulatory cross-checking. Learners will build a personalized plan for actionable use of AI in their professional context.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Articulate foundational knowledge of AI and its historical and current role in the building process and government.
  • Analyze how AI can enhance capacity, distinguishing between AI-driven and human-required tasks.
  • Evaluate AI tools for worthiness in workplace contexts, leveraging key criteria, trust indicators, and information on AI limitations.
  • Apply relevant policies, frameworks, and cybersecurity principles to responsible use of AI tools in the workplace.
  • Execute workplace-relevant tasks – permit review and regulatory cross-checking – using AI tools.
  • Create a personalized action plan for ongoing learning, application, and knowledge sharing of AI in your workplace.

How to Access On-Demand Courses

CIP members can access all on-demand courses by logging into the Member Area.

  1. Log in to your member account
  2. Visit the Member Area
  3. Browse the “On-Demand Courses” section
  4. Select a course and register for it
  5. Once you have registered, the course will appear in your “My Online Learning” section
  6. Start learning!
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Not a member? Become a Public Subscriber to unlock access to on-demand courses for an additional fee and begin your learning journey. Learn more about becoming a CIP member here.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact our team at membership@cip-icu.ca.