Mary W Rowe
@rowemw
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Urban animator. Connector of urban practitioners fostering self-organization, which underpins resilience and livability in cities. Prez/CEO of Canada's @canurb
Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2008
Pleased to be at the Ottawa Real Estate Forum with colleagues from OBOT to talk about the challenges- and opportunities - to revitalizing downtowns across Canada. People + Place = Potential
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Canadian public libraries played an important role during the pandemic: report https://t.co/UndT9TB8Q7
@CANURB
ctvnews.ca
A new report finds that Canadian public libraries were national assets in providing access to knowledge and health to communities during the pandemic, according to the Canadian Urban Institute and...
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Pleased to be with @FCM_online and colleagues to discuss their proposal for a new municipal growth framework. Remember Oliver Wendell Holmes: 'I'm proud to pay my taxes, it buys me civilization' . @CANURB #stateofcities
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Brilliant, insightful piece @nicolegelinas - so many thoughtful observations including this one "...urban civics depends on people in business, finance, politics, policy and media just showing up, day after day, to make a little unglamorous progress...". Place + People @CANURB
“Cities require successful people to have so much at stake — literally — in a particular place that they can’t walk away,” @nicolegelinas writes.
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Live now - important issues not unique to Toronto - cities across the country https://t.co/YKrTXras02
@CANURB
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Still true :)
Throwback Thursday: How can we increase resilience in our cities? Mary Rowe discusses how connecting local organizations can help residents to weather nearly any storm @UNHABITAT @rowemw 👇 https://t.co/tVYpx4jjc7
#networking #resilience #local #cities
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Mary W. Rowe (@rowemw), CUI CEO, in the Globe and Mail: "For Canada to find its way to economic recovery, to reconciliation, to equity, to climate resilience and to social stability, it needs a very strong, well-led Toronto." https://t.co/LjSeScBFNj
#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli
theglobeandmail.com
For Canada to find its way to economic recovery and social stability, it needs a very strong, well-led Toronto
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Key ingredient to re-localizing economies and strengthening downtowns and main streets. It's really important! @canadaeo @my_main_st @CANURB
theglobeandmail.com
The capital gains tax should be deferred to when the employees that purchased their shares sell them
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Pleased to be in Boston soon with colleagues @profchapple and @andreperryedu et al! Please join @BUSPH and @BUonCities in-person or online Wednesday for The Resilience of Cities: Where We Work, Live, and Play. Register: https://t.co/ymUTrwBzbY
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Looking forward to speaking in Victoria in a few weeks about community economies and strengthening the local! @Shorefast @my_main_st @CANURB
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History shows crises in cities lead to remarkable innovations: water treatment after cholera, public health immunization after small pox. What have we learned through COVID about city building, city making and city keeping? Chat with me and answer 5 Questions for Better Cities.
What should come next for Canada’s cities? What can’t be left behind? As we approach the 1000th day of living with COVID, we want to hear from you! https://t.co/mG4jfnvqj9
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Looking forward to virtually joining Monday with @CANURB colleagues for this very important gathering! #LCF2022 #thinklocal #Resilience #climatechange #Storytelling #ClimateResilience #BuildingResilientNeighbourhoods @ICLEICanada @iclei
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Just wrapping in Vancouver, pleased to be with the International Downtown Association's annual conference, learning from several BIAs and downtown orgs who are participating in/benefitting from the CHCI program. Momentum @CommFdnsCanada @INFC_eng #buildbackbetter #IDAVAN22
“Canada’s Healthy Communities Initiative is broadening our understanding of what infrastructure truly is and can be: better and more equitable ways for people to connect, problem-solve, and create community-led places for everyone” says Mary W. Rowe, President and CEO of CUI
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hear hear! really enjoyed my time with all of you - learned a lot from so many doing really important on-the-ground work to stimulate local main street economies and support neighborhoods thanks #IDAVAN22
Powerful words that are also inspiring us at @ChiLoopAlliance as we continue to make the Loop Everyone’s Neighborhood. #BackInTheLoop #IDAVAN22
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Very appreciative of our partnership with Economic Developers Council of Ontario - and all the activators and ambassadors working to strengthen their local economies on @my_main_st with support from @FedDevOntario - and the team at @EnvironicsA - #buildingbackbetter @CANURB
Huge thanks to @EnvironicsA for honouring the #MyMainStreet Project with their Client of the Year Award! @CANURB's Gregory Spencer and @edco1edco's Omer Ismael were present to receive the award at the Environics Analytics 16th Annual User Conference yesterday.
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