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Central Park FLood Response, Indoor Sheltering Update, Consultation, and Christmas Oranges – Mayor’s Sunday Email – January 3 2021

January 3, 2021

Hello everyone, Thanks for your emails over the past few weeks. As those of you who are regular correspondents will know, I took a couple weeks break from writing Sunday emails. For those of you who are receiving a Sunday email for the first time, it’s because you’ve written in the past couple of weeks…
COVID-19 Recovery, Downtown and Urban Fabric, Economic Development and Prosperity

2021: Here’s to Hope … and Hard Work

January 1, 2021

As we awoke on January 1 2020, COVID-19 was a world away. Our economy was one of the strongest in the country; our downtown was thriving. Few of us could have anticipated the toll the pandemic would take on our seniors, health care workers, small businesses, people without homes, governments, on each and every one…
Climate Change and Sustainability, Economic Development and Prosperity

Zero Waste Victoria: A City Where Nothing Is Wasted

December 20, 2020

This piece was originally published in the Times Colonist here. Discussions about garbage have taken up a lot of space in the Times Colonist Comments section in the past months. Trevor Hancock and Jon O’Riordan outlined the importance of reducing consumption and taking a zero-waste approach. CRD General Manager of Environmental Services, Larisa Hutchinson, laid…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Budgeting and City Finances, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, COVID-19 Recovery, Well Being and Healthy Cities

Tiny Homes, Questions addressed, By-Election, City Budget, And Happy Holidays – Mayor’s Sunday Email – December 13 2020

December 13, 2020

Hello everyone, Thanks so much for your emails this past week. In keeping with my Sunday tradition, I’m writing back to all of you at once so that everyone’s emails get answered in a timely way and so that everyone has as much information as possible about sheltering, housing and other related matters. If you’d…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Climate Change and Sustainability, Downtown and Urban Fabric

What’s in a name, Housing Update, Impacts of sheltering, your suggestions, and everything else – Mayor’s Sunday Email – December 6 2020

December 6, 2020

Thanks, as always, to everyone who took the time to write to me this week. I appreciate hearing your ideas, insights, complaints and frustrations. As usual, I’m responding to everyone together – on the one hand, for efficiency, but on the other, to ensure that as many people as possible have answers to the questions…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Economic Development and Prosperity

Access to Housing, Central Park, Your ideas, and Everything Else – Mayor’s Sunday Email – November 29 2020

November 29, 2020

Hello everyone, Thanks for taking the time to write to me this past week about sheltering in parks and related concerns. To ensure everyone gets a timely answer, I’m responding to you all at once as well as creating a blog post so others have this information as well. If you’d like to stay up…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Uncategorized, Well Being and Healthy Cities

Provincial support, community care tent, $100,000 grant, housing update – Mayor’s Sunday Email – November 22 2020

November 22, 2020

Hello everyone, Thanks so much to everyone who has written to me this past week. In order to answer your emails in a timely way – and to make sure that everyone has the same information – I’m writing back to all of you at once. As always, I’ll use headings so you can just…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Mental Health and Addictions, Well Being and Healthy Cities

meegan/Beacon Hill Park, showers, human rights, The state of the City, and covid-19 second wave – Mayor’s Sunday Email – November 15 2020

November 15, 2020

Hello everyone, I continue to receive lots of emails on sheltering related issues and I want to make sure everyone gets a response and has information, so I’m answering you all at once! I hope you’ll take the time to read and share with others too. These emails tend to be long, but it’s because…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Mental Health and Addictions, Well Being and Healthy Cities

Showers, community care tent, The City’s role and next steps towards housing – mayor’s sunday Email – november 8 2020

November 8, 2020

Hello everyone, Thanks for taking the time to write to me this past week. We’re still receiving quite a few emails on the topic of people sleeping outside. I’m writing back to everyone at once as I want to make sure to respond to all of you and to share information. If you’d like to…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness, Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric, Mental Health and Addictions, Well Being and Healthy Cities

housing Update, questions addressed, pandemic mental health impacts, how you can help, And waterfront walkway, – mayor’s Sunday email – November 1 2020

November 1, 2020

Hello everyone, Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to write to me this past week on the topic of sheltering and related issues. I really value receiving your emails and I also appreciate this weekly opportunity to respond. For those of you who have written for the first time, this email is…

2021: Here’s to Hope … and Hard Work

Zero Waste Victoria: A City Where Nothing Is Wasted

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