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Setting the Context: Challenges and Opportunities

Click the tiles below to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the sector based on the current Canadian context (2023-24), and the role the sector plays in addressing them.

Climate Change

COVID-19 Pandemic

Data, Knowledge, Surveillance and Monitoring

Demographic Changes

Equity Diversity, Inclusion, Access, and Belonging

Economy

Essential Service (System/Sector Complexity, Emergency Management)

Homelessness

Infrastructure and Urban Design

Mental, Physical, and Social Health

Nature, Trails and Parks

Placemaking

Safe Sport

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Social Isolation and Loneliness

Technology

Tourism

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Volunteers

Work Transformation: The Four-Day Work Week and Remote and Hybrid Work

Workforce Shortages

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