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We are pleased to be contributing to an exciting upcoming workshop called “Resilient Urban Futures” which invites academic, community, and municipal representatives from our five Local Futures communities to come together in March 2026 in Waterloo to strengthen long-term climate planning using future-foresight techniques and tools.

We are pleased to partner with Dr. Robert Patrick, Janelle Hutchinson, Stephanie Ortynsky, and Matt Wolsfeld from the University of Saskatchewan to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. 

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Lucid Axon, a Montreal based start-up that has pioneered an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to analyze and evaluate organizational performance in terms of ESG, the SDGs, and sustainability impact.

We are pleased to partner with Dr. Cameron McCordic, Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Kitchener, Ontario.

The webinar featured a panel of city staff and changemakers from around the world, sharing how they have been working with the SDGs in their cities and the challenges, opportunities and strategies for integrating them into the work of the municipality.

Global Cities provided practical and useful advice for Canadian Municipalities looking to get started or deepen their current SDGs work.

Local Futures convened a series of conversations with leading global cities to learn how they have moved beyond the ambition and vision of the SDGs towards integration and impact in municipal processes and operations.

Join us for a webinar on November 6th to explore how to turn the SDGs into action, in Canada and around the world.

This fall marks the start of a new chapter in our work to support Canadian communities and municipalities in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We look to the coming six to eight months to apply this work and begin taking stock of SDGs progress in our five participating communities.

We are pleased to be working with Dr. Chad Walker, Assistant Professor of Low-Carbon Transitions in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University, to bring the Local Futures project to life in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.