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Category Archives: Management
7 Tips to Engage and Multiply Your Municipality’s Message
Seven tips your town, city or region can adopt to boost and amplify its messages through Twitter’s social media platform. Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Communities, Consultation, Management, New Media, Planning, Politics
Tagged cities, infrastructure, public engagement, regions, social media, towns, twitter, Twitter tips for municipal government
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Six Tips to Build Your Municipality’s Twitter Following
Six tips your town, city or municipality can use to find, follow and attract influencers to engage and talk to on Twitter’s social media platform. Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Communities, Consultation, Management, New Media, Politics
Tagged cities, infrastructure, public engagement, regions, social media, towns, twitter, Twitter tips for municipal government
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Mitigate Municipal Headaches with Timely Tweets
Discover how Twitter can help your town, city or region to avoid issues and communicate with your community, especially during infrastructure construction projects or events. Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Communities, Consultation, Management, New Media, Planning, Politics, Transportation
Tagged infrastructure, municipalities, social media, twitter
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Toronto’s Chattering Elites and Scarborough’s Transit Victims
Toronto’s councillors of wealthy wards and their chattering elite supporters turned a blind eye on a critical social justice issue for Danzig Street, Ward 44 and all of Scarborough. Instead, they opted to exclude social costs and benefits in deciding the fate of Scarborough’s transit. Our take on how and why assessing socio-economic impacts would have created a better life for Scarborough’s working poor and multicultural community. Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Management, Planning, Politics, Socio-Economic Impact Analysis, Transportation
Tagged immigrants to Toronto; Scarborough; Toronto's Ward 44; Toronto's Ward 22; Toronto's East End; Socio-economic Impact Assessment; transit; TTC; MetroLinx; City of Toronto; Toronto's Transit Debate; Toro
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Nine Lessons on Making Multi-Family Homes More Resilient
About 20 years ago, Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited was part of a team that prepared an aggressive strategy for residential, industrial, commercial and institutional waste reduction, reuse and recycling (3Rs) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). As the urban … Continue reading
Seven Ways to Rethink Toronto’s Resiliency
Seven ways the recent ice storm, earlier power outages and floods enable us to consider whether municipal sustainability plans for Toronto and other municipalities should be reconsidered through the lens of resiliency planning. How different would social and environmental planning for food, climate change, energy, economic development, healthy communities, natural assets and transportation be if seen through the lens of ‘resiliency’? Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Energy, Management, Planning, Politics, Socio-Economic Impact Analysis, Sustainability, Transportation
Tagged community resiliency, environmental planning, ice storm 2013, municipalities, Peterborough, power outages, resiliency, social planning, socio-economic impact, sustainability, Toronto, transportation, urban planning
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Power Plants and Communities: Rethinking the Relationship
Following the break-up of Ontario Hydro in the late ‘90s, provincial energy policy migrated to the Premier’s office. This, tightly centralized decision-making is reminiscent of the circumstances almost a century earlier when Sir Adam Beck led protests at Queen’s Park. Beck’s cry for ‘Power for … Continue reading
The Value of the Benefits Blueprint
This opinion editorial (Op Ed) first appeared on April 25, 2013 in the Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, New Brunswick, and is re-printed here with permission. A generation ago, urban and rural planners worried about “boom bust” effects associated with large mining, energy and infrastructure projects. … Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Consultation, Energy, Management, Planning, Socio-Economic Impact Analysis, Sustainability
Tagged community impact, social science, socio-economic, socio-economic impact assessment
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Honouring Our Forests and their Precious Values on World Forestry Day
Our forests embody a wide range of values, which provide diverse benefits. Historically, the commercial or market value of natural resources has been easier to identify than the non-market values. When we make policy decisions affecting our forests’ future, how … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Consultation, Management, Planning, Politics, Sustainability
Tagged consultation, environment, environmental assessment, forest ecosystem, forestry, government relations, landscape data, policy, public engagement, research, sustainability, world forestry day
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How to Move Your Home Renovation Forward with Municipal Approvals
You finally have enough saved to start that home renovation. You are ready to build the extension and drive in the first nail. Before breaking a sweat you decide to contact your friend to lend a hand. You share your … Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Consultation, Management, Planning, Politics
Tagged building permits, by-laws, Committee of Adjustment, home renovations, homeowners, How to work with the Committee of Adjustment, municipality, planning, real estate, residential, seeking municipal approvals, zoning
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