Category: Climate Change and Sustainability
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Federal Government Provides Further Funding to Charitable Sector, Clarifies Wage Subsidy
For those who want to stay right up to date with what’s happening in the City on COVID-19, please join me daily on the City of Victoria’s Facebook page at 2:30pm. And please share this link and information with your friends and neighbours. We’re getting lots of emails with lots of questions and we’ll do…
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Victoria 3.0 – Pivoting to a Higher Value Economy – 2020-2041
Expedition leader Adrian Round (left) and ocean operations staff member Jonathan Miller carefully monitor remotely operated vehicle operations on the seafloor more than 2 km below the vessel. Photo by Ed McNichol. Ocean Networks Canada Today the City of Victoria released Victoria 3.0, an economic action plan that accompanies the City’s Official Community Plan to…
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Cities Can’t Go It Alone, Need National Government Support on Climate Change: Climate Emergency Urban Opportunity Report
From left to right, Martha Delgado, Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights for Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maimunah Sharif, Executive Director UN Habitat, Shipra Narang Suri, Coordinator, Urban Planning and Design Branch at UN-Habitat. It’s not every day, as mayor of a small city – in the global scheme of things – to…
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Victoria joins U.N. Challenge with 5,000 Tree Pledge
Today in New York City, I participated in the launch of the United Nations Trees in Cities Challenge hosted by the U.N. Executive Secretary, Under-Secretary-General Olga Algayerova. As part of this initiative, the City of Victoria will work with the community to plant 5,000 trees on public and private land by the end of 2020.…
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Election 2019 Candidates Listening Session: Focus on the Future
“Choose forward.” “Not left. Not right. Forward together.” “In it for you.” “It’s time for you to get ahead.” Looking carefully at the slogans of the four main political parties in English Canada, it’s clear that this October’s election is about the future. Thankfully campaigns are about more than slogans. In my experience they’re…
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Victoria is a City that Looks to the Future
This blog post is short. The real meat is in this video. Please watch it! Last Thursday evening, City Council held a public hearing for a 20-unit townhouse development at 1712 and 1720 Fairfield Road. Many people who live in the neighbourhood spoke with Council and shared their perspectives on the project. While more people…
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Climate Action, Active Healthy Transportation, and the Heidelberg Challenge
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Heidelberg where I attended ICCA 2019, an international conference on Collaborative Climate Action. The conference focused on the role of cities in the lead up to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ Climate Action Summit in New York this September. It was an honour to have been invited to Heidelberg…
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Vélo Canada Bikes: The Case for a National Cycling Strategy
I was in Ottawa recently as a representative of the South Island Prosperity Partnership which had been shortlisted for an Infrastructure Canada Smart Cities Challenge prize. Coincidentally, and luckily, one day earlier, also in Ottawa, was the third annual National Bike Summit. I’m so glad I was able to attend. Even as an already strong…
