Listening, Learning and Unlearning: Our Call to Action
Photo Credit: Burning Ceremony after Rural and Indigenous Overdose Action Exchange hosted on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in October 2019 Written By: Jen Casorso, Social Health and Well-Being Lead It has taken me some...Reimagining Post Pandemic Possibilities – An Open Webinar Invite
Reimagining Post Pandemic Possibilities: A Collaborative Exploration June 29, 2021 – 11:30am -12:30pm PST The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted deep patterns of living and highlighted critical vulnerabilities within Canadian communities. The pandemic’s...Peer-Daniel Joins the Urban Matters Team
Meet Peer-Daniel, the newest member of the Urban Matters team. Peer-Daniel will be part of the community housing team working on housing & homelessness research, needs assessments, affordable housing policies and programs, and development consulting. He is driven...Building Social Innovation Into Housing Challenges
YWCA Metro Vancouver Launches a Housing Solutions Lab to Tackle Barriers to Building More Deeply Affordable Housing for Single Parents In early 2020, YWCA Metro Vancouver reached out to Urban Matters with a persistent and difficult challenge: how to sustainably fund...A Pandemic is a Terrible Opportunity to Waste: Local Government and Their Community-serving Sector Partnerships
In Urban Matters’ second Covid webinar, BC and Alberta leaders in the field share experiences, insights and ways forward in the wake of the pandemic. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, local governments and their partners in the community-serving sector were faced with...Building Bridges: Delyse Sylvester joins the Urban Matters team
Urban Matters recently welcomed Delyse Sylvester to its team as a leader in Strategy and Culture. Delyse has three decades of social-innovation expertise, and has connected thousands of social entrepreneurs with corporate leaders, thought leaders and new-media...International Overdose Awareness Day 2019: a time to remember and a time to act
Tomorrow, August 31, is International Overdose Awareness Day. It is a day for remembering everyone we’ve lost. It’s also a day for action and connection. The opioid overdose crisis is huge, systemic, and overwhelming. Simultaneously, it is deeply personal.
Our End of Summer Reading List
We asked our team members which books they’ve been carrying with them to their favourite summer hangouts and they shared great titles from across almost every genre.
Innovating for Empowerment & Employment
We are placing people people with lived experience into roles where they can make a difference in the lives of their peers.
Innovation Matters
World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) is the kind of celebration we embrace at Urban Matters CCC.
My story, her story: on Canadian identity and immigration
It is important to reflect on the economic and social challenges that disproportionately impact newcomer women and, going forward, imagine the possibilities that emerge when we prioritize initiatives that will enable newcomer women to thrive.