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SUMMARY: Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversatio
 ns – March 20
DESCRIPTION: Join us over lunch at the Liu Institute’s Place of Many Trees 
 for the official in-person launch of the UBC Centre for the Study of Democr
 atic Institutions’s’ new report on local climate communications in Canada.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img class="alignnone wp-image-52680 size-
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 l Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations" width="620" h
 eight="347" /></p><p>Join us over lunch at the Liu Institute’s Place of Man
 y Trees for the official in-person launch of the UBC Centre for the Study o
 f Democratic Institutions’s’ new report on local climate communications in 
 Canada.</p><p><strong>Our report explores how local governments can communi
 cate around climate policies in the current chaotic information environment
 .</strong></p><p>We will be joined by <strong>Andrea Reimer</strong>\, Adju
 nct Professor of Practice at the UBC SPPGA and local organizer\, and <stron
 g>Wes Regan</strong>\, PhD candidate at UBC SCARP and Regional Lead for Pra
 ctice\, Research & Evaluation (Healthy Public Policy) in the Office of the 
 Chief Medical Health Officer at Vancouver Coastal Health. The webinar will 
 also feature <strong>report authors </strong>who will discuss the main find
 ings and paths forward.</p><p><strong>Speaker bios:</strong></p><p><strong>
 Heidi Tworek\, </strong>Professor of History and Public Policy\, Director o
 f the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions</p><p><strong>Maddie 
 Sides\,</strong> CSDI researcher\, co-author of Municipal Matters\, and pub
 lic policy student at the UBC SPPGA</p><p><strong>Ghassan Hamzeh\, </strong
 >CSDI researcher\, co-author of Municipal Matters\, and public policy stude
 nt at the UBC SPPGA</p><p><strong>Andrea Reimer </strong>is an Adjunct Prof
 essor of Practice at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. As a
  community organizer and former member of City Council\, Andrea spearheaded
  a number of initiatives\, including the city’s effort to be the Greenest C
 ity on earth and Vancouver’s nationally significant municipal framework for
  reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.</p><p><strong>Wes Regan </strong>h
 as worked in community advocacy and capacity building as a non-profit leade
 r\, as a municipal planner\, and as a public health policymaker during the 
 COVID-19 pandemic\, where he has experienced and observed issues of trust a
 nd distrust\, communication\, and disinformation from different vantage poi
 nts. This inspired his concerns about and fascination with issues of power 
 and trust and effective public engagement and deliberation amidst the growt
 h in digital disinformation and misinformation.</p>
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