State of Canada’s Cities - At the Crossroads - Maximizing Possibilities

Get in Touch canurb.org/summit-2023 summit2023@canurb.org 3 mailto:summit2023%40canurb.org?subject= Land Acknowledgement The head office of the Canadian Urban Institute is located in Toronto, the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississauga’s of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home t. [...] Anneke Smit, PhD Karen Chapple, PhD Director of the Centre for Cities (C4C) and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto Anneke Smit, PhD is Director of the Centre for Cities (C4C) and Associate Professor in the Karen Chapple, PhD, is Director of the School Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. [...] From the engaged citizen to the aspiring undergraduate to the seasoned practitioner, universities have the potential to train, upskill, and inspire the city builders of tomorrow, and to ensure they have the best and up to date tools and techniques to diagnose and solve society’s most complicated and pressing problems. [...] Arora is currently the chair of the OECD committee on statistics and statistical policy, Vice Chair of the bureau for the conference of European Statisticians, and the Chair of the High- Level Group on the modernization of official statistics. [...] Statistics Canada has taken several significant steps to integrate the specific data needs of cities in our outputs, including the extensive dissemination of the 2021 Census of population at the local level; the release of information on specific population groups through the Disaggregated Data Action Plan; and the launch of the Centre for Municipal and Local Data, which contains visualization too.