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Join us on Saturday, November 22nd from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Conrad Grebel University College for our annual Holiday Make a Difference Market! This festive event brings together local vendors and artisans for a joyful day of community, shopping, and giving back.

For a Keeping Well at Work special virtual event, join us for an interactive morning with guest keynote speaker, Loretta J. Ross to learn about the concept of "calling people in" as a helpful tool when conflict arises.

Participants will explore “how to start making change with those you’d rather cancel,” and ways we, as a society and as a university, can incorporate new practices of reducing harm through conversations focused on shared values and connection, rather than punishment.

As part of the University of Waterloo's Collaborative and Connected Research Panel Series, the November panel event will bring together current department chairs and school directors to discuss how to build collaborative and co-operative relationships. The conversation will focus on building collaboration in research and educational settings, including how collaboration can enable new forms of professional relationships and generate creativity. This panel is hosted by the Office of the Vice-President, Research and International and the Faculty of Health.

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.