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Andrew McMurry’s Resilience and Rhetoric Speech

Enjoy a copy of Dr. McMurry’s Speech Dr. McMurry’s presentation took us ‘outside the box’ and explored sides of resilience of particular importance to planners seeking to adapt the concept, or at least speak to it’s strengths and weaknesses. He

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Planning for Dynamic Futures – Is Resilience a Purposeful Framework?

The Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS) will table the discussion at the University of Waterloo, February 3-5, 2011. It may be argued that the unknown future dynamics for which we desire to plan will only intensify in complexity due

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Walking Tour with Paul Bedford

Saturday October 23rd UW planning students met with planning students from Ryerson to have a good time together socially while learning from Paul Bedford, Chief Planner Emeritus, City of Toronto,  about planning in downtown Toronto. Highlighting “the good, the bad

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Communicators, Prepare Yourself

In the beginning of October, CAPS-ACEAU visited Concordia and UDM in Montreal during the annual CIP conference. Indeed, getting to know one another and connect as professionals about to enter a growing profession is a big part of what we

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Registration and Presentation Application Now Available!

Conference registration now available! http://caps-aceau.org/archives/waterloo-2011-archive/registration/ Conference presentation application now available! http://caps-aceau.org/archives/waterloo-2011-archive/proposals-propositions/ TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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CAPS will be present at the 2010 CIP conference in Montreal October 2-5

Good Afternoon University of Waterloo Planning Students, Mark Groulx and I have been making arrangements to secure some funding for the upcoming CIP Conference in Montreal, October 2 – 5. As it stands now, it looks like some funding might

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Past Conference Attendant’s Impression from Guelph

P is for Progressive Planning By Heidi Postnikoff Queens University, 2nd year SURP CAPS rep. February 4th – 6th 2010, a handful of SURP’ers left our school hallways (once again!) and set off to attend this year’s Canadian Association of

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Keynote Speakers confirmed

We secured close-to-home Thomas Homer-Dixon (left) as a keynote speaker before the summer, and we’re now excited to say that we have also managed to secure Brent Toderian (right) all the way from Vancouver. So whether you prefer a theoretical

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Why attend a student planning conference?

The CAPS conference has been held in a different Canadian city for over 25 years, but never at the University of Waterloo. We are interested in offering conference attendees a good experience, and both undergraduate and graduate students are welcomed.

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Positions filled

The Board of Directors are pleased with the interest in the previously posted open positions. Organizing a national conference is a team effort, and we are happy John Kazilis, the new Board of Directors member for the position of Treasurer,

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