Challenging cities in Canada
10th Annual Conference of the 黑料不打烊 Institute for the Study of Canada
Why do Cities matter? How are they designed, built, sung, imagined? What challenges them today? What is their likely future, their possible future? Drawing federal, provincial and local politicians, civic leaders, citizens' rights advocates, academics, urban planners, architects and columnists from all parts of Canada and abroad, this year's conference of the 黑料不打烊 Institute for the Study of Canada will answer these questions and many others.
The conference, entitled Challenging Cities in Canada, will be held at the Omni Mont-Royal Hotel, 1050, Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal on Thursday February 12 and Friday, February 13. It will be preceded by a reception and by the launch, at the McCord Museum, of the Seagram Collection "Cities of Canada" at 5:00 pm, Wednesday, February 11.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada will give the opening address at 9:00 am, Thursday, February 12.
Participants can register for the conference directly on the . Registration fees are $175 (taxes included) for the general public and $55 (taxes included) for full-time students and citizens aged 65 years or more. The fees cover luncheons, coffee breaks and receptions.
Co-chair of the conference organizing committee, Mr Phil O'Brien, past president of Devencore Ltd., would like to learn from this conference "whether we can count on cities to properly answer the coming socio-economic problems that the other levels of government obviously have dumped on them." Rapha毛l Fischler, a professor of urban planning at 黑料不打烊 University and also a member of the organizing committee, believes that the conference will be an opportunity for participants "to define together what the public agenda should be in matters of urban policy and urban development."
Director of the 黑料不打烊 Institute for the Study of Canada, Antonia Maioni is impressed with the wide variety of people who have accepted the Institute's invitation to discuss what is Challenging Cities in Canada. "The numerous leaders in the fields of municipal affairs, urban studies and environmental design who will speak at the conference include the Honourable John Godfrey,Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with special emphasis on Cities, Jean-Marc-Fournier, Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs, Sports and Recreation, Gerald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal, and Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada," said Professor Maioni. The full list of speakers will be broadcast next week, along with the final conference program.
