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Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein: How Susu Systems Build Belonging (opens the original)
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Susu, boxhand, meeting turn, partner—the informal banking systems built by marginalized communities have names most Canadians have never heard, and don't recognize as a legacy already thriving here. Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair of Feminist Political Economy and founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective. Drawing on more than a decade of research into rotating savings and credit associations, she shows how these community-run economies build the trust and belon
Amanda Munday: The Workaround To Fixing Democracy (opens the original)
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Community isn't the soft stuff around democracy—it's the load-bearing wall holding it up. Amanda Munday is executive director of New Majority, a nonpartisan organization that activates young and first-time voters. Drawing on her own experience building a co-working and childcare space after hitting a wall of policy inaction, she shows how community infrastructure—not political access—is often what turns advocacy into real change. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content fr
Åsa Kachan: Libraries and Belonging (opens the original)
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Public libraries have run on overdue fines and quiet-please rules for generations. Increasingly, more of them are dropping both—and discovering that connection, not silence, is what makes a place worth belonging to. Åsa Kachan is CEO and Chief Librarian of Halifax Public Libraries. She drawing on her own experience growing up in libraries, she shows how removing fines, welcoming food and conversation, and designing for accidental encounters can turn libraries into places where belonging happens
Jorge Garza: The Value of Relational Infrastructure (opens the original)
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Physical infrastructure can be seen. Relational infrastructure can only be felt—and it might be the difference between a park and a place worth belonging to. Jorge Garza is director of Networks for Change at the Tamarack Institute. Drawing on communities like BC's Tri-Cities, he shows how relational infrastructure—the connections and collective intelligence beneath a place—is turns static spaces into ones that generate real belonging. This special episode of The Conversation Piece f eatures cont
Anna Gallagher-Ross: The Power of Public Space (opens the original)
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Beneath the noise of traffic, one Toronto space is quietly proving that conversation—not commerce—is what makes a neighborhood. Anna Gallagher-Ross is senior manager of programming at The Bentway, a public space beneath Toronto's Gardiner Expressway that hosts year-round arts programming and social gatherings. Drawing on The Bentway's research, she shows how seating, art, and play turn passersby into neighbours—and why public space is public health infrastructure. This special episode of The Con
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