Waterfront for All Speaker Series 2021 - present

2026-3-31 Jets at the Island Airport, Again? WTF?

• Video Recording: https://youtu.be/IHa1j2nU8Yg?si=OSARQklXvMKViZq6
• Featuring:
  • Phil Pothen, Environmental Defence
  • Norm Di Pasquale, NotJetsTO
  • Ron Jenkins, Waterfront for All
  • Ed Hore, Waterfront for All

2026-2- Waterfront Review and AGM 2026

• Video Recording: https://youtu.be/L4pondveeFc
• Featuring:
  • Kevin Greene, Chief Operating Officer of Waterfront Toronto,on what WT is up to.
  • Bryan Bowen, Director Port Lands, CreateTO,on CreateTO's role.
  • Johanna Kyte, Toronto Region and Conservation Authority,on TRCA's many waterfront projects.

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

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

2025-09-30 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

2025-01-22 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

2024-12-04 Dare We Imagine the Island without an Airport?

• Video Recording https://youtu.be/19zqtPc0Iys
• Featuring:
  • Mark Ryan, Co-Founder, Public Work

2024-09-25 Accessing the Island: To Link or Not to Link, That is the Question.

• Featuring:
  • John Lorinc, Journalist, Spacing, et al
  • April Engleberg, LinkedIn
• Video Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WkbELWL2FE

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

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

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

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

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

2022-1-25 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

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

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

2021-07-20 History of the Toronto Island Airport

• Guest Speaker: Ron Jenkins, Board Secretary, Waterfront for All
• Video recording:https://youtu.be/ow3S3x4LrEc

2021-05-11 Accidental Wilderness / Tommy Thompson Park

• Guest Speaker:
  • Walter Kehm, Senior Advisor, SDG
• Video recording: https://youtu.be/fy6U2lksBjM

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