Les Villes Qu'il Nous Faut

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MCGILL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CANADA

CONFÉRENCE ANNUELLE DE L’INSTITUT D’ÉTUDES CANADIENNES DE MCGILL

The Cities We Need

Les villes qu’il nous faut

2015

February 19 & 20, 201 / Le 19 et 20 février 2015 Phi Centre, 407 Rue St. Pierre, Montreal

2015

Annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada February 19 and 20, 2015 Phi Centre 407 St. Pierre Street

PROGRAMME

Conférence annuelle de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill Le 19 et 20 février 2015 Centre Phi 407, rue St Pierre

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE MESSAGE DU DIRECTEUR

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Chers ami(e)s et collègues,

Welcome to the McGill Institute for the Study of L’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill, vous Canada’s 2015 conference, The Cities We Need. souhaite la bienvenue à la conférence annuelle 2015, Les villes qu’il nous faut. Since 1995, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) has hosted a major bilingual Chaque année depuis 1995, l’Institut d’études conference every year in Montreal on topics that canadiennes de McGill (l’IÉCM) organise à Montréal matter to Canadians and are relevant to current une conférence bilingue sur des enjeux importants pour public policy concerns. These public events, les Canadiens et Canadiennes et pertinents pour les designed to raise provocative questions and préoccupations actuelles en matière de politiques encourage open and nonpartisan discussion, have publiques. Ces évènements publics, conçus pour brought together hundreds of people and attracted soulever des questions polémiques et encourager des national and international media coverage. The discussions ouvertes et non partisanes, rassemblent MISC's annual conferences are widely recognized chaque année des centaines de personnes et reçoivent as rare learning experiences and attract experts on une couverture médiatique nationale et internationale. policy and public life from around the globe. Les conférences annuelles de l’IÉCM sont reconnues comme des expériences d’apprentissage uniques et This year, our conference theme acknowledges the attirent des experts en politique et vie publique de intense public interest in cities and the ways in partout autour du globe. which they are transforming Canadian life. It is in cities, we believe, that the key questions of Cette année, le thème de notre conférence reconnait citizenship, infrastructure, diversity and inequality l’immense intérêt du public envers les villes et les at the heart of Canadian life are being confronted. façons dont elles transforment la vie canadienne. C’est Cities have become key incubators for innovative dans les villes, nous croyons, que les questions de policy and laboratories for social change. We hope citoyenneté, d’infrastructure, de diversité et d’inégalité very much that the discussions at this conference au cœur de la vie canadienne sont confrontées. Les will enrich the debate over Canada’s future and villes sont devenues un incubateur clé pour des leave us with a myriad of new ideas to take home politiques innovantes et des laboratoires forts with us. d’initiatives pour le changement social. Nous espérons vivement que les discussions tenues lors de cette Thank you for joining us here in Montreal. conférence viendront enrichir les débats sur l’avenir du Canada et laisseront une myriade de nouvelles idées à Yours sincerely, ramener à la maison.

Merci de vous être joints à nous ici, à Montréal.

Cordialement,

William Straw, Ph.D. William Straw, Ph.D. Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Directeur, Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill Professor, Department of Art History and Professeur, Département d'histoire de l'art et Communication Studies d'études en communications

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SUMMARY SOMMAIRE

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 LE JEUDI 19 FÉVRIER 2015

12:00 p.m. Conference Registration 12 h 00 Inscription

1:00 p.m. Words of Welcome 13 h 00 Mot de bienvenue

1:15 p.m. City Governance – The Mayor’s 13 h 15 Gouvernance de la ville – La perspective Perspective du Maire

3:00 p.m. Break 15 h 00 Pause

3:15 p.m. Special Presentations 15 h 15 Présentations spéciales

5:00 p.m. Break 17 h 00 Pause

5:15 p.m. Special Presentation 17 h 15 Présentation spéciale

6:00 p.m. The Urban Night 18 h 00 La nuit urbaine

7:00 p.m. Opening Night Reception 19 h 00 Cocktail d’ouverture

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 LE VENDREDI 20 FÉVRIER 2015

8:00 a.m. Conference Registration 8 h 00 Inscription

9:00 a.m. Words of Welcome 9 h 00 Mot de bienvenue

9:15 a.m. The Infrastructures We Need 9 h 15 Les infrastructures qu’il nous faut

10:45 a.m. Break 10 h 45 Pause

11:00 a.m. Special Presentation 11 h 00 Présentation spéciale

11:30 a.m. Urban Citizenship 11 h 30 Citoyenneté urbaine

1:00 p.m. Lunch 13 h 00 Dîner

2:00 p.m. Special Presentation 14 h 00 Présentation spéciale

2:30 p.m. Cities, Territories, Worlds 14 h 30 Villes, territoires, mondes

3:45 p.m. Break 15 h 45 Pause

4:00 p.m. Special Presentation 16 h 00 Présentation spéciale

5:00 p.m. Special Presentation 17 h 00 Présentation spéciale

6:00 p.m. Closing Remarks & Reception 18h00 Mot de clôture et réception

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 / LE JEUDI 19 FÉVRIER 2015 12:00 p.m. Registration / Inscription 12 h 00

1:00 p.m. WORDS OF WELCOME / MOT DE BIENVENUE 13 h 00

 William Straw, Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies / Directeur, Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill, Professeur, Département d’histoire de l’art et études en communications

 Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University / Principale et vice-chancelière, Université McGill

 Christopher Manfredi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University / Doyen, Faculté des arts, Université McGill

 Ann Dadson, Co-chair, MISC Board of Trustees / Co-présidente du conseil d’administration de l’IÉCM

1:15 p.m. CITY GOVERNANCE - THE MAYOR’S PERSPECTIVE / GOUVERNANCE DE LA VILLE - LA 13 h 15 PERSPECTIVE DU MAIRE

Panelists / Conférenciers :

 Bonnie Crombie, Mayor, Mississauga, Ontario / Mairesse, Mississauga, Ontario

 Mark Heyck, Mayor, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories / Maire, Yellowknife, Territoires du Nord-Ouest

 Dan Mathieson, Mayor, Stratford, Ontario / Maire, Stratford, Ontario

 Mike Savage, Mayor, Halifax, Nova Scotia / Maire, Halifax, Nouvelle Écosse

 Nathalie Simon, Mayor, Châteauguay, Quebec / Mairesse, Châteauguay, Quebec

Moderator / Modératrice :

 The Honourable Marlene Jennings PC, LLB, Former Member of Parliament / Ancienne députée, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce— Lachine

Word of Thanks / Mot de remerciement :

 Michael Goldbloom, C.M., Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Bishop’s University ; Co-Chair, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Board of Trustees / Principal et vice-chancelier de l'Université Bishop’s; Co-président du conseil d’administration de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill

3:00 p.m. Break / Pause 15 h 00

3:15 p.m. DIGITAL ISSUES / LES ENJEUX DU NUMÉRIQUE 15 h 15

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS / PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

 Jessie Adcock, Chief Digital Officer, City of Vancouver / Responsable en chef des services numériques, Ville de Vancouver

 Harout Chitilian, Vice-Chair, City Council Executive Committee, Montreal / Vice-président du comité exécutif, Ville de Montréal

 Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Director, Laboratory for the City, Mexico City / Directrice, Laboratoire de la ville, Ville de Mexico

 Stéphane Guidoin, Director, Products and Services, OpenNorth.ca / Directeur, développement de produits et de services, NordOuvert.ca

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Hosted by / Animée par :

 Damien Silès, Executive Director / Directeur général, Quartier de l’Innovation

5:00 p.m. Break / Pause 17 h 00

5:15 p.m. FOCUSING ON URBAN CULTURE: URBAN IMAGINARIES IN THE WORLD / MISER SUR LA 17 h 15 CULTURE URBAINE : IMAGINAIRES URBAINS DANS LE MONDE

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION SPÉCIALE

 Armando Silva, International Project Manager, Urban Imaginary; Professor, Universidad Externado of Colombia / Directeur du projet Imaginaires urbains; Professeur, Universidad Externado de Colombie, Bogotá

Hosted By / Animée par :

Word of Thanks / Mot de remerciement :

 Ingrid Bejerman, Canada in the Americas Initiative, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada / l’Initiative Canada dans les Amériques, L’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill

6:00 p.m. THE URBAN NIGHT / LA NUIT URBAINE 18 h 00

 Luc Gwiazdzinski, Director of Masters in Urban Innovation / Responsable du Master Innovation et territoires, Université Joseph Fourier, France

 Diane Poitras, Filmmaker; Professor / Cinéaste, professeure, Faculté de communication, Université du Québec à Montréal

 Andreina Seijas, Urban Night Researcher, Policy Analyst / Chercheuse sur la nuit urbaine et analyste politique , Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC

Hosted by / Animée par :

7:00 p.m. WORDS OF THANKS AND OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH POP 19 h 00 MONTREAL / MOTS DE REMERCIEMENT ET RÉCEPTION D’OUVERTURE, EN PARTENARIAT AVEC POP MONTRÉAL

With the music of / Avec la musique de :

 Jonathan Karpetz, PhD student in Communications, McGill University; DJ / Candidat au doctorat en études en communications, Université McGill; DJ

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015/ LE VENDREDI 20 FÉVRIER 2015

8:00 p.m. Registration / Inscription 8 h 00 9:00 a.m. WORDS OF WELCOME / MOT DE BIENVENUE 9h00

9:15 a.m. THE INFRASTRUCTURES WE NEED / LES INFRASTRUCTURES QU’IL NOUS FAUT 9 h 15 Panelists / Conférenciers :

 Talia Dorsey, Architect and Founding Principal / Architecte et associée principale, The Commons Inc.

 Ilan Gewurz, Real estate developer with an urban planning expertise / Promoteur immobilier avec une expertise dans la planification urbaine

 Norman Pressman, Professor Emeritus, Urban design, University of Waterloo / Professeur émérite, design urbain, Université de Waterloo

 Adam Vaughan, MP. Trinity-Spadina, Housing and Urban Affairs Critic, Liberal Party of Canada / Député de Trinity- Spadina, critique, lodgement et affaires urbaines , Parti libéral du Canada

Moderator / Modérateur :

 Alain Dubuc, Journalist, La Presse; Board of Trustees, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada / Chroniqueur, La Presse, membre du conseil d’administration de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill

10:45 a.m. Break / Pause 10 h 45

11:00 a.m. MUNICIPAL ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN QUEBEC: WHO VOTES? FOR WHOM? AND WHY? / LA 11 h 00 PARTICIPATION ÉLECTORALE MUNICIPALE AU QUÉBEC : QUI VOTE? POUR QUI? ET POURQUOI?

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION SPÉCIALE :

 Sandra Breux, Canadian municipal voting expert / Spécialiste des élections municipales canadiennes, Institut national de recherche scientifique

Introduction by / Introduction par :

 Ruth Kircher, Eakin Fellow, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada; linguist, Liverpool Hope University / Visiteur Eakin, l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill; linguiste, Liverpool Hope University

11:30 a.m. URBAN CITIZENSHIP / CITOYENNETÉ URBAINE 11 h 30 Panelists / Conférenciers :

 Denise Balkissoon, Journalist, Editor-in-Chief / Journaliste, éditrice en chef, TheEthnicAisle.com

 The Honourable Larry Campbell, Senator, The Senate of Canada; former Mayor, City of Vancouver / Sénateur, Sénat du Canada; ancient Maire, Ville de Vancouver

 Jayne Engle, National Curator / Commissaire nationale, Cities for People, Montréal

 Nicole Swerhun, Founding Principal / Fondatrice Principale, Swerhun Facilitation, Toronto

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Moderator / Modératrice :

 Sharon Jeannotte, Senior Fellow, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa / Agrégée supérieure de recherches, Centre sur la gouvernance, Université d’Ottawa

1:00 p.m. Lunch / Dîner 13 h 00

2:00 p.m. MIMO BIMAADIZIWIN: ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND THE GOOD LIFE IN CITIES / MIMO 14 h 00 BIMAADIZIWIN : PEUPLES AUTOCHTONES ET LA BONNE VIE EN VILLE

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION SPÉCIALE :

 Evelyn Peters, Author, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Inner City Issues, Community Learning and Engagement, University of Winnipeg / auteure, professeure, Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les enjeux liés aux centres-villes, l’apprentissage communautaire et la mobilisation communautaire, Université de Winnipeg

Introduction by / Introduction par :

Kakwiranó:ron Cook, McGill University Aboriginal Outreach Administrator / Administrateur, relations autochtones, Université McGill

2:30 p.m. CITIES, TERRITORIES, WORLDS / VILLES, TERRITOIRES, MONDES 14 h 30 Panelists / Conférenciers :

 John Brodhead, Executive Director / Directeur éxecutif, Evergreen City Works, Toronto

 Gorka Espiau, Director of Innovation for Cities and Regions / Directeur de l'innovation pour les villes et regions, The Young Foundation, UK

 Louise Guay, President / Présidente, Le Living Lab de Montréal

 Fabrice Labeau, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, McGill University / Professeur, Département de génie électrique et informatique, Université McGill

Moderator / Modérateur :

 Guillaume Ethier, Scholar in Urban Studies, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada / Urbanologue, l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill

3:45 p.m. Break / Pause 15 h 45

4:00 p.m. JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND THE CITY / JUSTICE, ÉGALITÉ, ET LA VILLE 16 h 00 SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION SPÉCIALE :

 Dr. Myrna Lashley, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University / Professeure adjointe, Département de psychiatrie, Université McGill

Introduction by / Introduction par :

 The Honourable Joan Fraser, Senator, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, The Senate of Canada / Sénateur, Leader adjointe de l’Opposition au Sénat, Sénat du Canada

5:00 p.m. THE RESEARCH CENTRE WE NEED, FOR THE CITY WE NEED / LE CENTRE DE RECHERCHE QU’IL NOUS 17 h 00 FAUT, POUR LA VILLE QU’IL NOUS FAUT

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRÉSENTATION SPÉCIALE :

 Pascal Brissette, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal / Directeur, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Études Montréalaises

5:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS / MOTS DE CLÔTURE 17 h 30

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES NOTES BIOGRAPHIQUES

SPEAKERS, MODERATORS and SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS CONFÉRENCIERS, MODÉRATEURS et PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

ADCOCK, Jessie BEJERMAN, Ingrid Chief Digital Officer, City of Canada in the Americas Initiative, Vancouver McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Jessie Adcock is a technology, marketing and digital professional Dr. Ingrid Bejerman is a journalist, who has been employed globally scholar, and cultural promoter within the high-tech sector since specializing in cultural reportage, 1998. She is currently Chief Digital Latin American matters, and journalism training. She Officer for the City of Vancouver. She served as reporter and columnist for the leading São came to the City from a global financial institution, Paulo daily O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil, as programme where she held a series of senior roles in marketing and coordinator for the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation IT, with responsibilities for developing and implementing for Journalism in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and as the company’s global digital strategy, application director of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar at development and online service delivery for consumer the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She is a and business markets. Prior to her experience in the programming consultant for prestigious literary events in financial services sector, Adcock spent several years in the Americas, including Blue Metropolis, the Montreal the telecoms industry, providing IT, e-commerce and International Literary Festival. Bejerman holds a management consulting and project management doctorate degree from McGill University, where her services to clients in Canada and internationally. Jessie work focuses on the institutionalization and has worked extensively overseas and speaks four professionalization of journalism. She currently languages. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and an MBA, as coordinates the Canada in the Americas initiative at the well as formal certifications in project management. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

BREUX, Sandra Spécialiste des élections municipales canadiennes, BALKISSOON, Denise Institut national de Journalist, Editor-in-Chief, recherche scientifique TheEthnicAisle.com Sandra Breux, titulaire d’un Denise Balkissoon is a freelance doctorat en géographie (et journalist based in Toronto, science politique), est professeure chercheure au Canada. She has won a National Centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’Institut Magazine Award for her work National de Recherche Scientifique depuis 2012. Elle with The Grid, and been était auparavant professeure adjointe à l’Institut nominated multiple times for her d’urbanisme de l’Université de Montréal. Elle work with Toronto Life. She currently writes for s’intéresse à la démocratie représentative municipale, publications including the Globe and Mail and appears aux représentations territoriales et à l’aménagement regularly as a commenter on CBC Radio. She is co- urbain. Elle a publié en 2011, avec Laurence Bherer, un founder and editor-in-chief of the Ethnic Aisle, a digital ouvrage intitulé Les élections municipales au Québec : magazine about race and ethnicity in the Greater enjeux et perspectives. Elle a mis sur pied fin 2014 le Toronto Area. Laboratoire sur les Élections Locales (le LABEL), laboratoire de recherche dont l’objectif est de centraliser les données électorales municipales canadiennes et de déchiffrer ce domaine de recherche.

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CAMPBELL, The Honourable Larry BRISSETTE, Pascal Directeur, Centre de recherché Senator, The Senate of Canada; former interdisciplinaire sur Montréal Mayor, City of Vancouver

Pascal Brissette est professeur Born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, agrégé au Département de Campbell became a steelworker in langue et littérature françaises Hamilton in the 1960s. He joined the Royal de l’université McGill. Il a publié Canadian Mounted Police and was Nelligan dans tous ses états : un transferred to Vancouver in 1969, later mythe national (Fides, 1998), La Malédiction littéraire : joining the RCMP drug squad in 1973. With more than twelve du poète crotté au génie malheureux (PUM, 2005) et years experience with the RCMP, Campbell transitioned into différents ouvrages collectifs dont Deux siècles de death investigation, establishing Vancouver’s first District malédiction littéraire (PULi, 2014) et Bohème sans Coroner’s Office in 1981 and becoming the Chief Coroner for frontière (PUR, 2010). Il est membre du Groupe de British Columbia in 1996. . A huge proponent of the Four Pillars recherche sur les médiations et les institutions littéraires approach to ending drug abuse, Campbell ran for Mayor when (GREMLIN) et de Médias19, et il dirige le Centre de he felt this strategy was being neglected. In 2002 he was elected recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises by the citizens of Vancouver under the banner of the Coalition of (CRIEM). Ses travaux actuels portent sur les événements Progressive Electors (COPE) in a landslide election. Carrying on de poésie et les figurations du poète en voix à Montréal. the legacy of his predecessor Philip Owen, Campbell spearheaded the approval and establishment of North America’s first legal safe injection site and continued to champion the Four Pillars Drug strategy. In addition to drug and crime prevention, he was also instrumental in the successful Vancouver bid to host BRODHEAD, John the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. In August Executive Director, Evergreen City 2005, Campbell was summoned to the Senate of Canada by Works, Toronto Prime Minister Paul Martin. As a Senator, Campbell has continued his work on drug policy, mental health, and aboriginal John is the first Executive Director of issues. In 2009, Campbell co-authored a book titled A Thousand CityWorks, a new strategic initiative Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for its of Evergreen, a national charity Future with Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert. He holds a Masters whose aim is to build green cities. Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from City University in CityWorks engages citizens and Vancouver. Senator Campbell is currently a member of the builds multi-sector collaborations to help decision-makers Standing Senate Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and make cities more livable and resilient. Its focus is on urban Administration and Standing Senate Committee on Banking, infrastructure, in particular sustainable transportation and Trade, and Commerce. housing. To learn more, please visit www.evergreen.ca/ cityworks. Prior to joining CityWorks, John was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Cabinet Affairs for Ontario CHITILIAN, Harout Premier Dalton McGuinty and served in other roles in the Vice-président du comité exécutif, Ville de Office of the Premier, including Executive Director of Montréal Communications and Senior Policy Advisor. Brodhead was also Vice President for Strategy and Communications for Pour un deuxième mandat consécutif, Metrolinx, the regional transit agency for the Greater Harout Chitilian a été élu conseiller Toronto Area. Prior to joining the provincial government, municipal du district de Bordeaux- John served in various capacities in the Canadian federal Cartierville de la Ville de Montréal en government, including as an advisor for the Minister of novembre 2013. Au sein du comité National Defence and the Minister of Infrastructure. exécutif, il occupe le poste de vice-président et il a la Brodhead is currently an Executive Fellow at the Mowat responsabilité des dossiers reliés à la réforme administrative, à Centre for Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He la Ville intelligente, aux technologies de l'information et à la lives in Toronto with his wife Alexandra and their three jeunesse. Harout Chitilian a occupé, de 2011 à novembre 2013, children under the age of four. le poste de président du conseil municipal de la Ville de Montréal et il a présidé la Commission de la présidence. Résident de Montréal depuis plus de 20 ans, Harout Chitilian a complété en 2004 ses études en ingénierie à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Professionnel pour la compagnie Ericsson, M. Chitilian amorce une carrière qui l’amènera en tant que consultant dans plusieurs destinations à travers le monde. En 2014, il reçoit le prix de la relève de l’Union des municipalités du Québec, remis à un jeune élu de moins de 35 ans qui s’est illustré sur la scène municipale. Au printemps 2013, il participe au programme des « Personnalités d'avenir » à Paris, suite à une invitation du Ministère des Affaires étrangères de la République française. En 2011, il fut choisi parmi les jeunes politiciens municipaux les plus prometteurs de sa génération par le magazine l'Actualité.

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COOK, Kakwiranó:ron DADSON, Ann Aboriginal Outreach Co-Chair, McGill Institute for the Study Administrator, McGill University of Canada Board of Trustees;

Kakwiranó:ron Cook is an Ann Dadson is a director of The CRB enrolled member of both the Foundation, a charitable organization Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne established by Andrea and Charles (New York/Ontario/Quebec) and Bronfman; she is also a director of Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation at Pine Ridge (South Historica Canada and a member of the Dakota). As the Aboriginal Outreach Administrator at board of the COGECO Program Development Fund. She McGill University, Cook works collaboratively with First has degrees from the University of Toronto and Harvard Nations, Inuit and Métis communities across Canada on University’s Institute in Arts Administration. - and off- reserve in an effort to connect with youth, prospective university students and their families to promote higher education and McGill University. Cook is a member of the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy NETWORK Employability-Training- Education Committee, McGill’s Aboriginal Affairs Work DORSEY, Talia Group, the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information Architect and Founding Program, and the Canadian Association of Career Principal, The Commons Inc. Educators and Employers. Cook is a graduate of Hawai’i Pacific University with professional experience Talia Dorsey, architect, promoting educational initiatives in his home founded The Commons Inc. communities and abroad. (Montreal, QC) in 2011, a strategic design and consultancy firm centred on developing broadly sustainable solutions for complex projects affecting our built and social environments. The CROMBIE, Bonnie young firm has garnered significant interest and accolades Mayor of Mississauga for its approach, with clients that include The City of

Montreal; The Canadian Centre for Architecture; The On October 27, 2014, Bonnie McConnell Foundation; Cirque de Soleil; The Empress Crombie was elected as the Mayor of Mississauga. Prior to her election Cultural Centre; The Aldo Group; Impactus Forum; Swiss as Mayor, she served as the Ward 5 Development Group; etc. Prior to returning to her native City Councillor and previous to that, Montreal, she spent a number of years in the Netherlands as the Member of Parliament for at the architectural firm of Rem Koolhaas – OMA (Office Mississauga-Streetsville. Prior to for Metropolitan Architecture). She there worked within seeking elected office, Mayor Crombie worked for two AMO, their creative think tank division, leading projects Fortune 500 companies including the Walt Disney that demanded applied architectural thinking to projects Corporation, and McDonald’s Corporation. She has also not exclusively manifest as buildings, including the successfully practiced public affairs and launched two Hermitage 2014 Masterplan (St Petersburg, RU); Zeekracht successful small businesses, including Cargo Cosmetics, (North Sea masterplan, EU); Haus der Kunst (Munich, DE) whose products are now sold around the world. Outside and research projects on Preservation, 70s Soviet of her work in the public and private sector, Bonnie has architecture, Lagos (Nigeria), et al. She received her BA a lengthy history of community leadership and volunteer service, having been asked by former Mayor from Princeton University and her MArch from MIT. McCallion to serve on the Mississauga Mayor’s Throughout her career, her work has received numerous Taskforce on the Arts, where she was subsequently awards and has been published and exhibited elected as Vice Chair. Mayor Crombie has also internationally. In conjunction with her practice, she is an dedicated her time to various charitable and not-for- Adjunct Professor at McGill University, a Visiting Professor profit boards, including the Credit Valley Hospital at Université de Montréal, and has previously taught at Foundation, Peel Region 11th Division Police Harvard and MIT. Community Liaison Committee, the Canadian and Ontario Brain Injury Association, and Arts Umbrella. Bonnie has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and a Corporate Director’s Certificate from the International Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Management. In January 2012 she was honoured to be awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work in the community. Bonnie speaks French, Polish and Ukrainian and with her husband Brian, she has raised three children, Alex, Jonathan and Natasha, in Mississauga.

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DUBUC, Alain O.C. ESPIAU IDOIAGA, Gorka Journalist, La Presse Director of Innovation for Cities and Regions, The Young Alain Dubuc is a national affairs Foundation, UK columnist for the Montréal daily La Presse. From 2001 to 2004, he was Gorka Espiau Idoiaga is the publisher of Le Soleil. He has been a Director of Innovation for Cities business columnist at La Presse from and Regions at the Young Foundation and a Senior Fellow at 1981 to 1988 and the editorialist-in-chief the “Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political for the same newspaper, from 1988 to 2001. Alain Dubuc Studies”, a collaborative research project to share obtained his master’s degree in economics at the Université internationally the Basque case of socio-economic de Montréal. He is a frequent guest speaker and panelist at transformation under extreme difficulties. Espiau is also a conferences on economic, social and political issues across founding partner of Social Innovation Laboratory Koop Québec and Canada. He was the recipient of the National (SILK), a member of the International Advisory Group of Newspaper Award for editorial commentary in 1999, and INCORE (University of Ulster) and Social Innovation finalist in the same category in 1998 and 2000. He won other Exchange (SIX) country ambassador. Previously he was the awards, including the National Business Award for Editorials Head of International Programmes at Innovalab, and served from the Toronto Press Club in 1982, the Annual Award of the as Senior Adviser to the Executive Office of the Basque Conseil du patronat du Québec for his contribution to the President. Espiau Idoiaga is also a former Senior Fellow at economy in 1985. In 2008, Alain Dubuc received the the United States Institute of Peace and a former Senior prestigious Public Policy Forum Hyman Solomon award for Associate to CICR (Columbia University). He initiated his excellence in journalism in 2009. He has been named Officer professional career in Elkarri, the Movement for Dialogue of the Order of Canada in December 2011. He is a member of and Accord in the Basque Country. Espiau is the author of the Board of Trustees of the McGill Institute for the Study of “Pluja Seca” (TV3 2011) and “Parlem les Lluls” (TV3 2012) Canada, also member of the Board of Directors of the documentaries and is co-author of many articles and Institute for Research on Public Policy. He is an Invited Fellow publications. of the CIRANO, the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organisations. Alain Dubuc is the author of six books: Simple comme l’économie (1987), A dialogue on Democracy in Canada” (2002, with John Ralston Saul), Éloge de la richesse (2006), which won the Business Book Award in 2007, À mes amis souverainistes, (2008), Les démons du capitalisme, pourquoi la crise et comment s’en sortir (2009), ETHIER, Guillaume Portrait de famille, 14 vrais ou faux mythes québécois (2014). Urbanologue, l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill ENGLE, Jayne National Curator, Cities for People, Guillaume Ethier est Montréal urbanologue. Il est actuellement stagiaire Jayne Engle is Curator of Cities for postdoctoral à l’Institut People, an urban innovation network d’études canadiennes de that aims to advance a movement to McGill et chercheur associé à la Chaire de recherche du create more resilient and livable cities. Canada en patrimoine urbain. Récemment, il a été stagiaire Jayne has practiced participatory urban postdoctoral à l’École d’architecture de l’Université planning and development in many d’Édimbourg. Après des études en sociologie, il a complété countries and contexts, primarily in North America and une thèse de doctorat en études urbaines à l’Université de Europe. A common thread running through her work is a Québec à Montréal qui lui a valu, notamment, les prix commitment to inclusive, meaningful community Phyllis-Lambert 2014 de la Société pour l’étude de engagement and progressive planning and policy agendas l’architecture au Canada, et le prix Jean-Pierre-Collin 2014 that lead to creating more ecologically-healthy, people- du réseau Villes Régions Monde. centered cities. She has carried out most of her planning and policy work from within civil society organizations, but has also worked in city government and the private sector. Engle was co-convenor of the Ecocity World Summit in 2011 in Montreal. She is currently a PhD candidate at McGill University School of Urban Planning investigating reconstruction and social change dynamics in post- earthquake Haiti. She holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and an MBA, and is a city planner certified in the US and Canada.

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FORTIER, Suzanne GEWURZ, Ilan Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill Real Estate Developer with University an Urban Planning Expertise

Professor Suzanne Fortier became the 17th Ilan Gewurz has a passion for Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill creating “unique and safe University in 2013. A respected scholar in spaces” where people feel the field of crystallography, Prof. Fortier safe, comfortable and thrive. As a part of the Proment specializes in the development of mathematical and artificial Corporation team Ilan was involved with the design and intelligence methodologies for protein structure delivery of Vistal I & II, the first LEED Gold residential determination. She earned a BSc and PhD from McGill towers in Quebec. He is currently involved in master University and has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific planning and construction of Pointe Nord, a LEED ND publications. Before returning to her alma mater, Prof. Fortier Gold neighbourhood on the riverfront on Nuns’ Island. served as President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Prior to working with Proment Corporation Ilan was a Research Council of Canada (NSERC) from 2006 to 2013. She consultant with McKinsey & Company focusing on was a Professor of chemistry at Queen’s University in organization and cultural transformation. He has Kingston, Ontario from 1982 to 2005 and also served as Vice- designed and taught courses in negotiations and Principal (Research) and Vice-Principal (Academic) between leadership development internationally. Ilan holds a BA 1995 and 2005. Prof. Fortier received the Queen’s University in Political Science from McGill University, an MSc in Distinguished Service Award, honorary doctorates from International relations from the London School of Thompson Rivers and Carleton Universities, and the Queen Economics and a law degree from Stanford University. Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Officer of France’s National Order of Merit, and is currently a GOLDBLOOM, Michael C.M. Board member of the Association of Universities and Colleges Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Bishop’s of Canada, the Conference Board of Canada, Montreal University ; Co-Chair, McGill Institute for International, and is a member of the Strategic Committee of the Study of Canada Board of Trustees Investissements d’Excellence Bordeaux. Under Prof. Fortier’s leadership, McGill has launched initiatives that will lead to a Michael Goldbloom, C.M., is the Principal more open, connected, and purposeful university, and that and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop’s Universi- will expand McGill’s reputation as a worldwide academic ty. He holds an A.B. in Modern European leader. These initiatives include increasing experiential History and Literature from Harvard University (1974) and learning opportunities for all undergraduate students, a Bachelor of Civil Law (1978) and a Bachelor of Common fostering a research environment that encourages creativity Law (1979) from McGill University. He worked as an edi- and collaboration, and expanding McGill’s role as an engaged torial writer at The Gazette in Montreal (1980) before community partner. beginning his professional career in 1981 as a labour law- yer at Martineau Walker (now Fasken Martineau). In 1991 Mr. Goldbloom became President and Chief Execu- FRASER, Joan tive Officer of the Montreal YMCA. From 1994 to 2001 he Senator, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in served as Publisher of The Gazette. In 2002, he was a the Senate, The Senate of Canada Visiting Scholar at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. In 2003 Mr. Goldbloom was named Deputy Pub- Senator Joan Fraser was appointed to the lisher of the Toronto Star, and in 2004 became its Publish- Senate on September 17, 1998 by the Rt. er. In 2007 he was appointed Vice-Principal (Public Honourable Jean Chrétien. Senator Fraser is Affairs) and Senior Fellow in Media and Public Policy at the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the McGill University. In August of 2008 he became the 18th Senate. Senator Fraser was Chair and Vice- Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop’s University. He President of the Legal and Constitutional was reappointed for a second five-year term in July 2013. Affairs Committee between November 2007 and June In December 2013, Mr. Goldbloom was appointed to the 2013. She was Chair of the Senate Liberal Caucus and served Order of Canada for establishing several transformative as Chair of both the Senate Standing Committee on Transport civic organizations in Montreal and for his dedication to and Communications and the Special Senate Committee on C- building bridges between the city's English- and French- 20 (Clarity Legislation). She has also been a member of the speaking communities. Indeed, Mr. Goldbloom has an following Senate Standing Committees: Rules, Procedures and extensive record of community leadership. He was Presi- the Rights of Parliament, Official Languages, National Finance dent of Alliance Quebec and Chairman of the Board of and the Senate Special Committee on Anti-terrorism. Senator Directors of the Ville Marie Social Services Centre, Selwyn Fraser is well-known to Canadians as a journalist. She began House School in Montreal and of the YMCA of Quebec her career in print journalism, joining the Montreal newspaper Foundation. He also served on the founding Board of The Gazette in 1965. In 1993, she was appointed Editor-in- Directors of the Batshaw Youth and Family Centres and as Chief, a post she held until 1996. From 1997 to 1998, she was a member of the Quebec selection committee for the Director-General of the Centre for Research and Information Rhodes Scholarship. He was co-chair of the 2010 Cen- on Canada, a division of the Council for Canadian traide Estrie Campaign. He serves on the Boards of the Unity. Senator Fraser holds a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Université de Sherbrooke, the Centre hospitalier universi- Languages from McGill University (1965). taire de Sherbrooke and the Canadian Jewish News.

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GOMEZ-MONT, Gabriella GUIDOIN, Stéphane Director, Laboratory for the City, Mexico City Director, Products and Services, OpenNorth.ca With one of the most complex and fascinating cities in the whole world as Stéphane Guidoin is Open North's playground, Gomez-Mont directs Director of Products and Services, Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City’s joining the team after 12 years of new creative think-tank and experimental practicing in IT. He is one of the leaders space: a place to reflect about all things city, of the open data movement since 2006 and ponder social scripts and urban futures for the largest when he cofounded the first Canadian open data megalopolis on the American continent: from the speculative initiative,CivicAccess. Within Open North he mainly focuses (even outlandish) to the practical. She has won several on open data standardization, tools development and international awards and recognitions for her work in different ecosystem building around open data. Stéphane believes disciplines, including the Prince Claus Fund (Holland), First that open data is a major component to improve Place of the Best Art Practice Award (Italy), IMCINE National communities and democratic processes. He hopes to make Film Grant (Mexico) plus is also a City 2.0 TED Prize grant open data more relevant as a tool for making government awardee. Gomez-Mont is a Fabrica ex alumni, a TED Senior open and encouraging fulfilling and sustainable Fellow and a Yale World Fellow, and was recently selected as a communities World Cities Summit Young Leader.

GUAY, Louise GWIAZDZINSKI, Luc Présidente, Living Lab de Montréal Responsable du Master Innovation et territoires, Université Joseph Fourier, Louise Guay est présidente du Centre France de cocréation et d'innovation ouverte Living Lab de Montréal, où elle mène Luc Gwiazdzinski est géographe, des projets porteurs en transport enseignant-chercheur en aménagement urbain intelligent, en ludification, et et urbanisme à l'IGA (UJF) et responsable économie ouverte qui permettent d'expérimenter de du Master Innovation et territoire. Il a nouvelles approches de consultation publique et de dirigé une agence de développement, mobilisation des ressources et des idées de toute provenance. une agence d’urbanisme et une agence des temps et des Alors que la citoyenneté se mue en une nouvelle civilité de mobilités. Chercheur au laboratoire Pacte (UMR 5194 l’innovation sociale Web 2.0 et que la géolocalisation se CNRS), associé à l'EIREST (Paris 1. Panthéon-Sorbonne) et démocratise, les usagers devenus mobiles interagissent de au MOTU (Bicocca & Politecnico de Milan), ses travaux plus en plus avec de petites et moyennes entreprises qui portent principalement sur les temporalités urbaines, les peuvent dès lors offrir des programmes de fidélisation mobilités, l'innovation et les relations art et personnalisés à un plus grand nombre de clients. Utilisant le territoire. Expert européen, il a dirigé de nombreux Living Lab comme plateforme, les citoyens de Montréal vont colloques et programmes de recherche sur ces questions de nouveau faire entendre leur voix dans les processus et publié de nombreux ouvrages et articles. http:// d’innovation et participer dans la mouvance et le changement lucgwiazdzinski.blogspot.fr/ de leur ville. Visionnaire exécutive dotée d’une expérience internationale, Guay possède une grande maîtrise du positionnement stratégique, de la planification agile et de la création de richesses par la technologie, autant auprès de startups que d'entreprises bien établies. Lorsqu'elle dirigeait HEYCK, Mark Mon Mannequin Virtuel inc., elle a contribué au succès de Mayor of Yellowknife Lands’ End, Sears, H&M et IBM dans le domaine du commerce

électronique social. Ses talents de réseautage lui ont permis Mayor Mark Heyck was born and de bâtir un solide réseau d’affaires qui inclut des investisseurs raised in Yellowknife. He attended de calibre international. Son parcours professionnel est McGill University where he studied impressionnant et comporte plusieurs véritables innovations : History and Canadian Studies. Mayor la première salle d’essayage en ligne avec mannequins 3D Heyck was first elected as a configurable, l’identité virtuelle, la personnalisation de Yellowknife City Councillor in 2003 and l'expérience usager, le shopping social, un pictionnaire de served as Deputy Mayor from 2006 to mode et la recherche visuelle de styles. Louise agit aussi 2012. During his time on Council, he comme consultante à propos de l'identité virtuelle et de chaired the City’s Heritage and Community Energy Planning l’économie des femmes. Plusieurs grands groupes de mode et Committees. Since 2007, he has also been a member of the détaillants européens et américains font appel à son Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal expertise, particulièrement dans les domaines de la Fund Council and currently serves as Vice-Chair. Mayor consolidation de la chaîne de production de vêtements, du Heyck was elected as Yellowknife's 14th Mayor in the fall of shopping 2.0, de la visualisation des suggestions de taille et de 2012. la réalité augmentée.

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JEANNOTTE, M. Sharon KARPETZ, Jonathan Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa DJ Centre on Governance

Jonathan Karpetz is a M. Sharon Jeannotte is Senior Fellow at first year PhD student the Centre on Governance of the in Communications at University of Ottawa. From 2005 to McGill University. He is 2007, she was Senior Advisor to the also a DJ with expertise in House and Top 40. Twitter: Canadian Cultural Observatory in the @jonathankarpetz Department of Canadian Heritage. Before that, she was the Manager of International Comparative Research in the Department’s Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate. She has published research on a variety of subjects, including the impact of KIRCHER, Ruth value change on Canadian society, international definitions Eakin Fellow, McGill Institute for the of social cohesion, the points of intersection between Study of Canada; Professor, Liverpool cultural policy and social cohesion, the role of culture in Hope University building sustainable communities, culture and volunteering, immigration and cultural citizenship, and Ruth Kircher is a linguist based at provincial / territorial cultural policy and administration in Liverpool Hope University in the UK. Canada. In 2005, she co-edited (with Caroline Andrew, Her research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics Monica Gattinger and Will Straw) a volume entitled and the social psychology of language. In particular, her Accounting for Culture: Thinking Through Cultural research focuses on societal multilingualism and related Citizenship, published by the University of Ottawa Press. issues such as social identities, language attitudes, and language policy and planning. Ruth is especially interested in contexts in which other languages co-exist alongside JENNINGS, The Honourable Marlene English, including French in Canada and Welsh in the UK. PC, LLB From January until May 2015, she is the Eakin Visiting Former Member of Parliament, Notre Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. -Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine

Honorable Marlene Jennings, former Member of Parliament, is the first Black Quebecer to be elected (1997 – LABEAU, Fabrice 2011) to Canadian Parliament in the Professor, Department of Electrical and history of Confederation. A member Computer Engineering Faculty, McGill of the Barreau du Quebec since 1988 University (now retired), she is widely recognized as having been a highly effective MP with strong leadership and mentorship Fabrice Labeau is an Associate skills. During the Liberal tenure as Government, Hon. Professor in the Department of Jennings served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Electrical and Computer Engineering at Minister, to the Solicitor General of Canada and to the McGill University, where he also holds Minister for International Cooperation. She also, while a the NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair in member of the Official Opposition from 2006 to 2011, Interactive information infrastructure for the Power Grid. served as Deputy House Leader and Official Critic for His research interests are in the applications of information Justice and the Attorney General of Canada. Fluently and communications technologies (ICT), including to bilingual, Hon. Jennings prior to elected office, was Deputy healthcare, greenhouse gas reduction and smart grids. He Commissioner for Police Ethics for the Province of Quebec has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and and as such, led the successful implementation of a conferences in these areas. As president of the IEEE conciliation process of public complaints regarding alleged Vehicular Technology Society, he has also been involved in police misconduct. This was an innovative process with a initiatives related to Transportation Electrification, Green 90% success rate. For close to two years, Hon. Jennings ICT and the Internet of Things. He is a member of the was the Executive Director of the YM-YWHA, Montreal Administrative Committee of the IEEE Sensors Council, the Jewish Community Centres. She is also an active volunteer chair of the Montreal IEEE Section. He has held several and is First Vice-President of the MAB-Mackay administrative appointments at McGill, including Associate Rehabilitation Centre’s Board of Directors and a member of Chair, Chair (interim), Associate Dean and Acting Dean. He the Board of the Institut universitaire de geriatrie de is currently the Associate Dean (Faculty Affairs) for the Montreal. She’s also the Co-Chair of the Fundraising Faculty of Engineering at McGill. Cabinet of Ecole Vanguard School’s $4million capital fundraising campaign 2014-2019. Hon. Marlene Jennings is well respected as a conciliator, mediator and as a person of integrity.

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LASHLEY, Myrna MATHIESON, Dan Assistant Professor, Department of Mayor of Stratford Psychiatry, McGill University

Dan Mathieson is in his fourth term Dr. Myrna Lashley holds a Ph.D. in as Mayor of Stratford, Ontario, and counseling psychology from McGill sits on numerous Boards and University. Previously Associate Dean at Committees in healthcare, municipal John Abbott College, she is an assistant affairs, law enforcement, athletics, professor in psychiatry at McGill not-for-profits, universities and University and researcher at the Lady Davis Institute of the colleges. He is currently Chair of the Jewish General Hospital. Internationally recognized as a Ontario Municipal Property Assessment Corporation clinical, teaching and, research authority in cultural (MPAC), a member of the Board of Directors of Festival psychology, she is a consultant to institutions, including the Hydro and Rhyzome Networks, the Stratford Shakespeare juvenile justice system and conducts workshops locally, Festival, Kings University College at the University of nationally, and internationally and has been a consultant to Western Ontario and the Advisory Board of the University the Brazilian health care system. She was a director of the of Waterloo-Stratford Campus. Mathieson is also a Canadian Race Relations Foundation and has served on the Governor on the Board of i-Canada and is on the Advisory Comité consultatif sur les relations Interculturelles et Board for Walsh University – Institute for the Study of the Interraciales de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal. She Intelligent Community. In 2012, he was chosen by the is Chair of the Canadian Cross Cultural Roundtable on Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) to receive Security, and Vice-chair of the board of École Nationale de the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, paying Police du Québec. She conducts research on police tribute to community leaders whose endeavours have set matters, and sits on the Comité expert en matière de them apart as technology innovators. He holds a Bachelor profilage racial and the Comité expert sur la santé mentale of Arts Degree from the University of Guelph and a of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. She has Masters of Public Administration Degree from the authored two training manuals on intercultural issues in University of Western Ontario. the workplace and a chapter in the book "Encounterin the Other". She has received several awards including the Queen Elizabeth II 2012 Diamond Jubilee award; 2006 Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Award for Holocaust studies; 2004 Martin Luther King legacy award; and 1995 Merit Award for the Kanawake Native survival school. Her current research focuses on the intersections of culture, terrorism and national security. She is also Barbados’ PETERS, Evelyn Honorary Consul to Montreal. Author (Indigenous in the City) Professor, Canada Research Chair in MANFREDI, Christopher P. Inner City Issues, Community Learning Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Engagement, University of McGill University Winnipeg

Christopher Manfredi is Dean of the Dr. Peters is an urban social Faculty of Arts at McGill University. He geographer. She received her BA (Hons) received a BA and an MA from the at the University of Winnipeg and her University of Calgary, and an MA and a MA and PhD at Queen’s University in Kingston. Dr. Peters’ PhD from Claremont Graduate research focus has been First Nations and Métis people in University in California. Dr. Manfredi is cities. She has conducted research with a variety of a scholar and authority on the role of community groups, including the Prince Albert Grand the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, in democratic Council Urban Services Inc., the Saskatoon Tribal Council, societies, principally Canada and the United States. His Friendship Centres in Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Flin Flon, research focuses on law and the courts, with an emphasis the Gabriel Dumont Institute, and the Central Urban Métis on the political and policy impact of rights litigation. His Federation Inc. Her recent edited book with Chris two current projects examine the importance of rights- Andersen, titled Indigenous in the City: Contemporary based litigation in the development of health care policy Identities and Cultural Innovation, focusses on urban and legal mobilization by conservative interest groups. Dr. Indigenous experiences in Canada, the US, Australia and Manfredi has held research grants from SSHRC, the New Zealand. In 2013 Dr. Peters was given the Canadian Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Donner Association of Geographers’ Award for Service to the Canadian Foundation, and the Max Bell Foundation. He is a Discipline, for her work in developing the field of urban highly regarded political and legal commentator. In 2010, Aboriginal geographies. he was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Governor General Consultation Committee. In 2013, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Prime Minister. Starting July 1, 2015 Dr. Manfredi will be McGill University’s new Provost and Vice-Principal Academic.

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POITRAS, Diane SAVAGE, Mike Filmmaker, Professor, Faculté de Mayor of Halifax communication, Université du Québec à Montréal Mike Savage was elected Mayor of HRM on October 20, 2012. As Member of Involved in the field of cinema since Parliament for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour many years, Diane Poitras has been from 2004 until 2011, Mayor Savage head of the Studio Acadie of the played a role as Official Opposition Critic National Film Board, in charge of for Human Resources and Skills and the the first documentary section in the Status of Persons with Disabilities, and as NFB website, and Director of Chair of the Liberal Caucus Committee on programming at the Cinemathèque québécoise. She is Post-Secondary Education and Research. He served on the House now a professor at the Université du Québec à of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, the House of Montréal while pursuing her practice in documentary Commons Standing Committee on Health and on the House of film. Her fields of interest are the different forms of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social relations, on one hand between reality and Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Before documentary film, and on the other hand between running for Parliament, Mayor Savage served as General documentary film and creation. She is co-director of a Manager of S. Cunard & Co; as Director, Residential / General study on “Documentary filmmaking as a trade” in Business Marketing and Sales for Nova Scotia Power; and with collaboration with the l’Association des réalisateurs et Robertson Surrette as Vice-President of Business Development réalisatrices du Québec, and carries out research on the and Senior Consultant. Before running for Mayor, he also worked place of creation in documentary filmmaking. Her PhD as Vice-President, Business Development, with M5 Marketing. thesis, to be defended in March 2015, addresses the Mayor Savage has demonstrated community leadership in social, presence of night in films and what it might express of a health and cultural organizations. He was a board member of the relation to the world. Her documentary film, Nuits IWK Hospital, served on the board of Neptune Theatre, is a (Nights) 2014, has been selected in the National former President of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova competition section at the Rencontres internationales Scotia, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Heart du Documentaire de Montréal (2014) and in the and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Other community Documentary feature competition at the Créteil, organizations that have benefited from Mayor Savage’s energy Women’s film festival (2015). and leadership include Junior Achievement, the Red Cross, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and Alderney Landing. Mayor Savage has chaired a strategic council of the United Way of Halifax Region as part of their effort to identify strategic supports to build and strengthen communities and neighbourhoods. Mayor Savage grew up in Dartmouth, graduating from Prince Andrew High School and Dalhousie PRESSMAN, Norman University. He and his wife Darlene live in Dartmouth with their Professor Emeritus, Urban two children Emma and Conor. design, University of Waterloo

Norman Pressman is Professor SEIJAS, Andreina Emeritus of Planning and Urban Urban Night Researcher, Policy Analyst, Design, School of Urban and Emerging and Sustainable Cities Regional Planning, University of Initiative, Inter-American Development Waterloo, and Founding Bank, Washington DC President of the Winter Cities Association. Internationally known, he has published Andreina Seijas is a Venezuelan widely in the field concerned with urban design and communications professional and public “winter cities” research, and lectures on the subjects policy analyst currently working for the of public policy, design, and development planning Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI) at the Inter- with emphasis upon cold-climate regions. American Development Bank in Washington DC. For the past six years, she has conducted extensive research on how cities can become safer and more productive by creating quality spaces for work and leisure during the night. Previously, she was a Policy Associate at Americas Society / Council of the Americas and Editorial Associate for policy journal Americas Quarterly. In her hometown of Caracas, Andreina worked for the Mayor’s Office in the Chacao municipality, where she began examining the importance of designing night-time public policies in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Andreina has a Communications degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Caracas), an MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and a Master in Public Administration and Non-Profit management from New York University. 16 Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada 2015

SILÈS, Damien SIMON, Nathalie Executive Director, Quartier Mayor of Châteauguay de l’Innovation Élue depuis novembre 2009 au poste de Avec une solide formation mairesse de Châteauguay, Nathalie Simon en commerce international, est également préfète de la MRC de Damien Silès occupe le Roussillon. Elle occupe la vice-présidence poste de directeur général de la Commission environnement de la du Quartier de l'Innovation de Montréal depuis la mi- CMM, la vice-présidence de la Régie juillet 2014. Durant ces 6 dernières années, il fut le intermunicipale de valorisation des matières organiques de directeur général et fondateur de la Société de Beauharnois-Salaberry et de Roussillon, est membre du conseil développement social de Ville-Marie, premier courtier exécutif de la CRÉ Vallée du Haut-Saint-Laurent, membre du social en Amérique du Nord. Avant cette date et pendant conseil d’administration du CLD Roussillon et du Conseil presque 6 ans, il fut directeur du membership et des intermunicipal de transport du Sud-Ouest et siège à la Table ventes à la Chambre de Commerce du Montréal des élus et préfets de la couronne sud de la CMM (TEPECS). métropolitain où ce dernier a établi un grand réseau de Pour elle, bien communiquer avec les citoyens et les acteurs contacts dans le milieu des affaires québécois. Il fut socio-économiques est primordial. L’administration qu’elle également personnalité de la semaine La Presse-Radio dirige a, dès son arrivé, jeté les bases nécessaires pour Canada en février 2011 et en juin 2013 ainsi que finaliste redonner aux citoyens la place qu’ils doivent occuper sur la aux prix Personnalité Arts-Affaires 2012. Candidat et scène municipale. Bien au fait des dossiers municipaux et des porte-parole de la plateforme sociale du maire de grands enjeux locaux, elle propose à ses concitoyens une vision Montréal oct. 2013. éclairée pour l’avenir de Châteauguay. Elle est d’ailleurs l’instigatrice du Sommet Châteauguay 2020 et des Grands Chantiers citoyens. Pour elle, la meilleure idée demeure celle qui est partagée par le plus grand nombre. Avant de se présenter aux élections municipales de novembre 2009, Nathalie Simon oeuvrait dans le domaine des communications. SILVA, Armando Touche à tout, elle a travaillé autant en radio, en télévision, International Project Manager, qu’à la presse écrite et à la production de documentaires. La Urban Imaginary, Professor External qualité du travail effectué lui a valu de nombreux prix dont University of Colombia Bogota, trois au niveau des hebdos du Québec (1er prix journalisme Columbia municipal -2001, 2e prix journalisme économique – 2002 et 3e prix journalisme environnemental – 2009). Pendant 20 ans, son Author of 20 books, including: Urban rôle de journaliste lui a permis d’être un témoin privilégié de la Imaginaries; Family Photo Album, vie politique, sociale, communautaire, culturelle et sportive, ( which won the award for best dont la majeure partie de sa carrière à Châteauguay. Elle a par doctoral thesis at the University of ailleurs toujours été largement engagée au sein de sa California ,UMI, California, 1996); Urban Imaginaries communauté où elle participe encore bénévolement aux from Latin America. (Hatje Cantz), Director of "Urban nombreuses activités. Imaginaries" International project and the collection "Imagined Cities". He writes for several magazines and newspapers such as El Tiempo, Colombia and Dars Italy. STRAW, William He has been invited to participate in some important Director, McGill Institute for the Study of world events of art, visual and urban culture as Canada and Professor, Department of Art Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany (2002); Sao Paulo History and Communication Studies Biennial (2004); Venice Biennale (2006). His whole work was exhibited at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation of Will Straw is the Director of the McGill Barcelona, 2007. The French digital magazine La Vie des Institute for the Study of Canada and Idées (2015) will soon publish an edition of his Bogotá Professor of Communications in the imagined. He has a PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Department of Art History and Literature at the University of California and is the Communication Studies at McGill University. He is currently Director of the Doctorate in Social Studies, External director of a research project, funded by the Fonds de University of Colombia. recherche du Québec-Société et culture, on ‘Media and Urban Life in Montreal.’ Dr. Straw has a longstanding interest in crime and is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, and co-editor of the volume Aprehendiendo al delincuente: Crimen y medios en América del norte. Dr. Straw has been a music correspondent for Prime Time (CBC Radio), popular culture correspondent for the Women's Television Network, and a cultural commentator for Newswatch (CBC Television, Montreal). He comments regularly on media and cultural issues for a variety of media.

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SWERHUN, Nicole Student Exhibition: Sherbrooke: Civic life, Founding Principal, Swerhun Facilitation readings, design

Nicole Swerhun helps connect Contributors: decision makers to the constituencies they serve. 10 Rose Ruoming Deng years ago she founded Swerhun Facilitation, a firm that is Justin Hung dedicated to making complex, often controversial and high profile, multi-stakeholder Kamilla Jolicoeur projects constructive and manageable. The Swerhun team creates processes that get information flowing Crystal Lee between all those involved, address the issues people care about, and put a heavy focus on demonstrating how Katie Lee different perspectives and priorities influence the end result. Based out of the Centre for Social Innovation in Ariela Lenetsky Toronto, the Swerhun team has completed 200 projects to date, working exclusively for the public and non-profit Adriana Mogosanu sectors. The team’s experience includes projects in post- war Bosnia, post-Katrina New Orleans, and in cities Manon Paquet across Canada and the US to help inform decisions regarding public policies and public assets. The firm’s Pierre-Antoie Pernot most recent work has focused on engaging the public in discussions regarding the role of governments in Tania Pilon evaluating proposed private sector investments – whether that be TransCanada’s proposed investments in Hagop Sarian Energy East; Porter Airlines interest in expanding their operations on Toronto’s waterfront; or proposed large Danny Seong scale private developments in urban areas. Nicole is a Senior Associate of the Canadian Urban Institute. Nancy Serag-Eldin

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VAUGHAN, Adam MP. Trinity-Spadina, Housing and Instructor: Talia Dorsey Urban Affairs Critic, Liberal Party of Canada;

Adam Vaughan was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina on June 30th, 2014. He is the Liberal Critic for Housing and Urban Affairs. Vaughan was elected twice to Toronto City Council before voters in Trinity-Spadina sent him to Ottawa to represent urban issues in Parliament. As an activist and as a journalist, he has played a significant role in the social and economic growth of Toronto. Vaughan brings a lifetime of experience to federal politics. On City Council he played a major role in reforming public housing policy in the city. He led successful campaigns to rebuild and revitalize existing public housing stock while initiating new policies to create family housing, supportive housing and new co- op housing programs in Toronto. Together with residents, he spearheaded the revitalization of the Alexandra Park community. Before entering politics, he was a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years, specializing in municipal affairs for both the CBC and Citytv. He covered all three levels of government. Since entering federal politics he is working with the Liberal Party and local governments across the country to re-establish a national housing policy as part of a new urban agenda for Canada.

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION DE LA CONFÉRENCE

Advisory Committee / Comité consultatif Thanks / Remerciements

Sandria P. Bouliane Celine Cooper Translator Columnist, Montreal Gazette Laurie Devine and Cynthia Lee Ann Dadson Media Relations Office, McGill University Co-chair, MISC Board of Trustees Robert Leckey Talia Dorsey William Dawson Fund at McGill University Architect, Founding Principal, The Commons Inc. Neale McDevitt Elisabeth Faure Editor, McGill Reporter Communications Administrator, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Colleen Morawetz McGill Journal of Law and Health William Straw Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Lauren Penney Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Manager, Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering Studies & Design (TISED)

Zoe Poirier Stephens Conference Partners / Partenaires de la conférence Translator The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Sabrina Purdy, Simon Bonami and the team at the Phi Dean of Arts Development Fund / Fonds de développement Centre du doyen de la Faculté des arts Shannon Scott and the McGill School of Environment MISC’s Canada In the Americas initiative Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) The McGill School of Environment The MISC Board of Trustees POP Montreal The McGill students working at the conference

Institute Staff / Personnel de l’Institut

Johanne Bilodeau Administrative Officer (on leave)

Elisabeth Faure Communications Administrator

Adriana Goreta Acting Administrative Assistant (on leave)

Linda Huddy Secretary (on leave)

Petros Psarudis Administrative & Student Affairs Coordinator

Jessica Shannon Special Events Coordinator

Mercedes Taboada Sola Secretary

Heather Yeoman Financial Administrator

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MAPS & DIRECTIONS CARTES & DIRECTIONS

Walk east on Sherbrooke towards University St. Marchez sur Sherbrooke en direction est, vers la rue Université. Turn Right on Ave. Union, walk to the corner of Ave. Union Tournez à droite sur l’avenue Union puis marchez jusqu’aux coins des and Blvd. de Maisonneuve rues Union et de Maisonneuve. Board the 61 Bus (Wellington), direction west Prenez l’autobus 61 (Wellington) direction ouest Exit the bus at Rue McGill and Rue St. Paul Puis sortez à l’arrêt situé au coin des rues McGill et Saint-Paul. Walk east on Rue St. Paul towards Rue St. Pierre Marchez sur la rue Saint-Paul en direction Est jusqu’à la rue Saint Turn left on Rue St. Pierre and you have arrived at the Phi Pierre. Centre Tournez à gauche sur la rue Saint-Pierre et vous voilà arrivé au Centre Phi .

Enter the Montreal Underground through the Tour Scotia on Rue Sherbrooke or through Les Cours Mont-Royal on Rue Peel Follow the underground passage towards Place Bonaventure and then Metro Square Victoria Exit at Sqaure Victoria onto McGill College Walk on McGill College South until Rue Notre Dame Turn left on Rue Notre Dame, walk to Rue St. Pierre Turn right on Rue St. Pierre, walk to Phi Centre

Empruntez le réseau piétonnier souterrain de Montréal en y entrant par la Tour Scotia sur la rue Sherbrooke ou par les Cours Mont-Royal sur la rue Peel. Suivre le passage souterrain en direction de Place Bonaventure et Métro Square Victoria jusqu’à la sortie Métro Square Victoria qui vous mène sur avenue McGill College. Marchez en direction Sud sur McGill College puis tournez à gauche sur la rue Notre-Dame. Tournez à droite sur la rue Saint-Pierre puis marchez en direction Sud jusqu’au Centre Phi.

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