Waterfront for All Speaker Series 2021 - present
2021-03-10 Objets Trouveés
- Guest Speakers:
- Ken Greenberg, Urban Designer & City Building Champion & Author
- Ton Schaap, Urbanist, The Netherlands
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/eorDhE0fDK8
2021-05-11 Accidental Wilderness / Tommy Thompson Park
- Guest Speaker:
- Walter Kehm, Senior Advisor, SDG
- Video recording: https://youtu.be/fy6U2lksBjM
2021-07-20 History of the Toronto Island Airport
- Guest Speaker: Ron Jenkins, Board Secretary, Waterfront for All
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/ow3S3x4LrEc
2021-10-19 Ontario Place - What's Going On?
- Guest Speakers:
- Suzanne Kavanagh, Ontario Place for All
- Ken Greenberg O.C., Urban Designer & City Building Champion & Author
- Eric Klaver, Partner, Senior Landscape Architect, PLANT Architect Inc.
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/9Qzek4jG_I0
2021-11-23 What's Next on the Toronto Waterfront
- Guest Speakers:
- David Stonehouse, Director, Waterfront Secretariat, City of Toronto
- George Zegarac, CEO of Waterfront Toronto
- Video recording: https://youtu.be/_1mq5yU5o3
2022-1-25 Don River and Central Waterfront Waterflow and Treatment Projects
- Guest Speaker: Lou Di Geronimo, General Manager, Toronto Water, City of Toronto
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/U7epb5NBPNI
2022-05-24 - Reflections on the Waterfront & WfA '22 AGM
- Guest Speakers:
- Nancy Gaffney, Waterfront Specialist, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
- Chris Glaisek, Chief Planning & Design Officer, Waterfront Toronto
- Geoffrey Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, PortsToronto
- Video Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtRR5zQcFQ
2022-12-13 How do we talk about the future of the Island Airport?
- Guest Speaker:
- Nicole Swerhun, Third Party Public
- View the presentation: Slide deck
- Meeting Recording - https://youtu.be/bfjytiQjKh
2023-11-07 The Changing Waterfront Updates from Waterfront Toronto
- Guest Speakers:
- Chris Glaisek, Chief Planning & Design Officer, Waterfront Toronto
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/B4PIjPEX1Ck
2023-12-12 WfA AGM & Waterfront Round Table
- Ed Hore, Chair of Waterfront for All - annual report: The Waterfront Year in Review
- Video recording: WfA AGM & Waterfront Round Table
2024-04-09 It's Time to Talk About the Island Airport Lands
- Guest Speaker:
- Sanford Borins, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
- Video recording: https://youtu.be/TQnG2yUXFrM
2024-05-21 Villiers Island - Hang On A Minute!
- Guest Speakers:
- Norm di Pasquale - City Activist (NoJetsTO, past Board of Education Trustee)
- Eric Lombardi - Housing Advocate, More Neighbours Toronto
- Mark Richardson - Technical Lead, HousingNowTO
- Blair Scorgie - Registered Professional Planner, Urban Designer, Lecturer TMU
- Video recording:https://youtu.be/aRc5rWJjFEE
2024-09-25 Accessing the Island: To Link or Not to Link, That is the Question.
- Featuring:
- Video Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WkbELWL2FE
2024-12-04 Dare We Imagine the Island without an Airport?
- Video Recording https://youtu.be/19zqtPc0Iys
- Featuring:
- Mark Ryan, Co-Founder, Public Work
2025-01-22 Ontario Place Proposed CSO Combined Sewer Overflow
- Video Recording: https://youtu.be/mjtGkdwPioQ
- Featuring:
- Chris Glover MPP, Spadina - Fort York
- Ann-Elizabeth Samson, Ontario Place for All
- Norm di Pasquale, Ontario Place for All
2025-09-30 Dockwall Dystopia: Our Crumbling Urban Shoreline
- Video Recording: https://youtu.be/a_c5YxeLuRo
- Featuring:
- Merrillees Willemse, Project Manager, Waterfront Secretariat, City of Toronto
- Jennifer Ogrodnick, Director, Construction, CreateTO, City of Toronto
2025-11-18 A Romance of Ferries: 200 Years of Getting People to the Island
- Video Recording: https://youtu.be/wuoxt2YygaA
- Featuring:
- Ron Jenkins, Board Secretary, Waterfront for All
2025-12-09 Exhibition Place: New Plans for Our Historic Fairground on the Waterfront
- Video Recording: https://youtu.be/kwWQiiFNFEA
- Featuring:
- Don Boyle, CEO, Exhibition Place