Small Steps and Big People
“When people are in a difficult situation, that is not the time to lay out the twenty-year vision for the community”
Read MoreTag: The Walrus Talks Resilience (Saskatoon 2015)
Growth: Infinite Possibilities through Purpose
“Food banks . . . across the country, are experiencing demands that outstrip their capacity”
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The Arts and Urban Resilience
“Artists have a lot to teach us about failure”
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Resilience in Every Line of Work
“Twenty-five percent of low-income Canadians under the age of sixty-five rely on a ‘working-poor’ individual to be the breadwinner”
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Cities for People, Not Just Cars
“No city has ever successfully solved traffic congestion by building more roads and lanes”
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Demonstrating the Possible
“Fifty-two percent of the world’s wildlife has disappeared since the 1970s . . . and it’s because of human activity”
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Consciousness Contains the City
“We don’t need bigger governments and bureaucracies; we need bigger citizens playing a larger role”
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Diverse Notions of Resilience
“People are generally pretty good at retrospective exercises. We are less gifted when it comes to being anticipatory”
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