Please join the Oak Ridges District Leadership Team at their 8th Annual Summer Solstice event on June 21, 2018! The focus this year is the new Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT). We have four great speakers who will each bring their own unique perspective on how they anticipate LPAT may (or may not) change the way planners do their job. The speakers include:

• Bruce Krushelnicki, RPP – Executive Chair (Retired), Environment and Land Tribunals Ontario (ELTO)
• Annik Forristal – Partner, McMillan LLP
• Lesley Pavan, RPP – Director of Development and Design, City of Mississauga
• Anna Pace, RPP – Chair, Local Planning Appeal Support Centre

Rather than providing specific details of the LPAT, this event is intended to build upon your existing understanding of LPAT and the planners changing role that was discussed at the recent webinar hosted by OPPI.

About the Venue:
The event will also include networking and opportunity to tour the unique historic event setting. PAMA’s complex consists of four heritage buildings, the former Peel County Courthouse (c. 1867), Brampton Jail, also known as the Peel County Gaol (c. 1867), a land registry office and a county administration building. PAMA is a great place to explore and learn about Peel Region’s culture and heritage. https://pama.peelregion.ca/en/index.asp

Please note there is limited parking at PAMA. There are several municipal parking lots within walking distance to the venue, including:
Brampton City Hall Garage - 2 Wellington Street West, Market Square Garage - Theatre Lane and Union Street, Nelson Square Garage – 5 Diplock Lane, John Street Garage – 16 John Street

Event Schedule:
Registration 1:30 – 2:00pm
Discussion and Panel Questions and Answers 2:00 – 4:30pm
Networking, Snacks & Drinks, Museum and Jailhouse Tours 4:30 – 6:00pm

OPPI members undertaking Continuous Professional Learning may claim learning units according to the CPL Program Guide.

Cost:
Early Bird Discount – Register on or prior to June 7th –
• OPPI Student and retired members - $35.00 +HST
• OPPI Members - $45.00 +HST
• Non-Members - $55.00 +HST

After June 7th
• OPPI Student and retired members - $45.00 +HST
• OPPI Members - $55.00 +HST
• Non-Members - $65.00+HST

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Join us Sunday June 24th, 2018 for the fourth annual Jane’s Walks Owen Sound. The ‘Where You Want To Live’ walk, led by Anne Finlay-Stewart, departs from the Centre Suites Building (the Professional Centre) at 945 3rd Avenue East at 1:00 p.m. This walk will explore downtown housing in Owen Sound.

The walk is free to attend and open to all. Ideas, stories, and thoughts can be shared by all participants during this walking conversation. Walks are at a leisurely pace suitable to most fitness levels. Jane’s Walks typically last about 1.5 – 2 hours in duration, and will occur rain or shine.

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On Thursday, June 28th, the book club will meet from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the Fox & Feather Pub and Grill on Elgin Street.

In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21), this month’s meeting will feature Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence.

About Dancing on Our Turtle's Back
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence, writer, editor, and educator Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance.

Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.

Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.

Unable to read the book before our meeting? No problem!
Within each monthly book, a number of planning themes will emerge. From these themes, our conversation will grow; reading the book is not necessary.

Themes in Dancing on Our Turtle's Back include Nishnaabeg...
• re-creation, resurgence and emergence;
• philosophies and intellectual traditions;
• traditional stories and teachings;
• language and songs;
• political relationships; and,
• a society of presence.

Interested in writing a book review?
The next deadline for submission to the Ontario Planning Journal is July 15. If you are interested in writing a book review of this month’s book, or any of our previous books, please email ed.planningbookclub@gmail.com.

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