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Incomplete streets, incomplete imaginations: Safe streets for whom?

Incomplete streets, incomplete imaginations: Safe streets for whom?
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52 works of Canadian nonfiction coming out in spring 2021

Can You Hear Me Now? is a book by Celina Caesar-Chavannes.(Random House Canada) Can You Hear Me Now? is a memoir by entrepreneur and former politician Celina Caesar-Chavannes. Caesar-Chavannes was the first Black MP to represent the riding of Whitby, Ont. But her political career wasn t easy, and she was known for speaking out about social and racial injustices within political institutions and in her community. She eventually decided to leave the party she ran for, the Liberals.  Can You Hear Me Now? tells Caesar-Chavannes  story, from her early childhood through her business and political careers to today, where she is a sought-after consultant, alongside offering leadership advice.

Locking up public spaces hits lower-income, racialized people harder: experts

  TORONTO When lockdowns close off public sports spaces such as basketball courts and soccer fields, they disproportionately affect lower-income and racialized families in dense cities, land-use experts say. Earlier this month, public health experts decried Ontario’s lockdown moves targeting outdoor spaces, saying they’re some of the least likely places to contract COVID-19. And public spaces and land-use experts say it’s hard not to see disproportionate effects of these measures playing out along socioeconomic and racial lines. “I think that we need to be very democratic making the laws… it s very clear that we are targeting citizens in different ways,” said Gil Penalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities, a non-profit organization striving to enhance mobility and equity for public spaces.

Urban Consulate Confidential: Jay Pitter & Tamika Butler

“People ask, what word would you use to describe yourself is it urbanist, is it planner, is it transportation person?” says Butler. “I think the thing for so many of us Black folks is that I don’t know how to describe the lane or space we’re in, but whatever it is, it’s dope as hell and everybody is trying to get in.” “You know why there isn’t a word for it?” replies Pitter. “Because we’re creating it in real time. It is so innovative. It’s so rich and textured and soulful. It defies a certain kind of language. It’s kinetic and rhythmic.”

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