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The final CareNext Collective event for 2025 showcases one of the most meaningful operational shifts at WRHN this year: the sustained reduction of ambulance offload times across both the Queen’s Blvd and Midtown sites. The initiative demonstrates how targeted, system-level innovation can emerge from cross-sector collaboration between emergency department leadership, paramedic services, informatics teams, patient partners, and frontline staff.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Mary Spencer, member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and former WBA super welterweight world champion.

In partnership with Canadian Jesuits International, St. Jerome’s University is thrilled to welcome Sister Laura Vicuna Pereira Manso to speak about her incredible experience working with Indigenous communities of Brazil championing human rights and environmental protection of the Brazilian Amazon. Sister Laura will join us on November 20, 2025 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the SJU Notre Dame Chapel. 

Join UW staff Katie Damphouse and Laura McDonald to learn the ins and outs of consensus-building: a collaborative process that welcomes healthy disagreement. You’ll walk away with a new cv/resume line, and techniques for facilitating complex decisions among colleagues, friends, or collaborators. Lunch will be catered from Arabesque.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape our workplaces, innovation sometimes happens in unexpected places. Join us as we put the spotlight on co-op students using AI to find smarter, more creative ways of working.

Please join for an in-gallery Artist Talk and Q&A with artist Andrew McPhail on Thursday November 6, starting at 7:00 pm. His current exhibition TEXTiles, This is not an AIDS Quilt is a survey of works made between 2019-2025, featuring 59 of the artist's hand-sequinned bedsheets, pillowcases, and quilts.

As part of the national Take Our Kids to Work Day, Waterloo is hosting activities on Wednesday, November 5th to allow Grade 9 students of Waterloo employees to explore careers and to shadow their UWaterloo employee host. 

Monique Chambers, Senior Training Specialist from the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (EDIRO) and Stacey Jacobs, Education Coordinator, Sexual & Gender-based Violence Prevention from the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) are collaborating to bring Active Bystander Intervention Training to staff and faculty. Participants will be provided with the skills and resources to intervene when they see harmful, or potentially harmful, behaviour which includes racism, sexual violence, and other forms of harm. Join us in building a culture of consent, care, belonging and respect on our campus. Everyone welcome.

The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) is once again bringing the What Were You Wearing? Survivor Art Exhibit to UWaterloo. The exhibit is based on student-survivor descriptions of the clothing they were wearing when they experienced sexual violence.

Obesity is more than a number on a scale — it's a complex health issue. Join us for a panel discussion that will aim to inform, inspire and shift the narrative around obesity.