We would like to invite you to join us for “Incubating Innovation Streets & Neighbourhoods” (details below). We’ve had the opportunity to hear about some of this work in its earlier stages, and we’re excited to hear the most recent updates along with you!

We will have light snacks, but please bring your lunch. If possible, please RSVP to Shelagh Graham (sgraham6@wrha.mb.ca) by September 15 (though walk-ins are always welcome!).

Incubating Innovation Streets & Neighbourhoods

September 16, 2014, 12:00-2:00pm

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

490 Hargrave Street

Meeting Room 209*

* When you’re standing at the corner of McDermot and Hargrave facing the building, we’re the 3rd door. Use the intercom and someone will buzz you in. Then come up to the offices at the top of the stairs.

You can also register to listen online here: http://www.chnet-works.ca/index.php?option=com_rsevents&view=events&layout=show&cid=323%3A407-healthy-canada-by-design-incubating-innovation-streets-a-neighbourhoods&Itemid=6&lang=en

CHNET-Works! is pleased to collaborate with the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP Initiative, funded by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, on this Fireside Chat.

Join us to hear:

·         About an environmental scan of provincial legislation re: healthy communities

·         About a Health Impact Assessment conducted to promote safe and active transportation

·         About a pilot project in the Town of Clearwater to develop an innovative street by-law

·         About case studies of innovative street design

Who should attend?
Professionals in public health, planning and transportation who are interested in creating healthy communities that support and foster physical activity and active transportation.

Advisors on Tap:

George McKibbon is a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario and holds memberships in the Canadian Institute of Planner (CIP) and the American Institute of Certified Planners. He is a planning consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph. He helped produce the CIP's Healthy Communities Legislative Comparison Survey Report.


Oliver Bellefleur has been working at the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) since 2010. He has master's degrees in philosophy and environmental sciences. His work is focused on public policies informing the built environment , particularly upon policies that favour safe, active and public transportation. 


François Gagnon has been working at the NCCHPP since 2006. He has a master's in criminology and a PhD in Communications. He teaches courses in research methodology, media and popular culture at the Université de Montréal. He is currently researching interventions and public policies that can promote safe active travel for use by public health and NGO`s.


Peter Truch is the Transportation Manager with Opus Internation Consultants. He has 15 years of experience doing transportation and mobility planning as both a consultatnt and for a municipal government. Peter is a fellow and serves as the President of the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE).


David Patman is a Transporation Planner currently employed at Winniped Transit. David has worked in both the public and private sectors. As an elected executive with the CITE, he has managed the CITE's HCBD Project on case studies directed at innovative street design.

Shelagh Graham

Healthy Built Environment Specialist

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

2nd floor - 490 Hargrave Street

Winnipeg, MB

R3A 0X7

Cell 204-805-0021

Fax 204-940-2690

sgraham6@wrha.mb.ca

Bike racks are available in front of the building at the corner of Hargrave and McDermot.

Plan your Winnipeg Transit trip: http://winnipegtransit.com/en/navigo