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10/09/2026

👩🏼‍🦯‍➡️🚶‍♂️🧑🏽‍🦽What would it take to make Toronto a truly walkable city for all?

🙌🏽The 2026 Pedestrian Summit Engagement Summary is here!

💬This spring, more than 100 advocates, residents, community leaders, and organizations came together for Toronto's first community-organized Pedestrian Summit to envision a city that puts people first. Together, participants generated 366 unique ideas for creating safer, healthier, and more connected streets.

📣The message was clear:

✅Safer streets and intersections
✅More pedestrian-only spaces
✅Better accessibility for people of all ages and abilities
✅Stronger connections between walking, transit, housing, and climate action
✅Greater investment in public life and vibrant public spaces

💡The ideas shared at the summit are more than recommendations. They are a blueprint for a Toronto designed around people, not traffic.

🗳️As we head into the municipal election on October 26, we’ll choose a new Council whose decisions will shape how we experience our streets over the next four years. Read the engagement summary, then ask your candidates where they stand before you vote on October 26.

🔗Read the Engagement Summary

🔗 Read the blog: https://www.880cities.org/torontos-first-community-organized-pedestrian-summit-what-we-heard/

10/08/2026

🥁 Drum roll pleaseeee! Join us in welcoming our 30 fantastic 2026 Ontario Community Changemakers, who will help spark new ideas and invigorate change in their local communities.

🙌🏼With the help of the network and the 8 80 team, the 30 winners will engage and pursue projects that activate public space, enhance civic engagement, or foster social inclusion. We’re so happy to see them committed to a better future for their community, and we can’t wait to see what they achieve! Congratulations to all!

✔️ The will join the Studio in Toronto for a two-day immersive learning opportunity, which includes city tours, workshops, presentations, and meetings with local grassroots community leaders.

💻 The program also features ongoing virtual coaching and capacity-building throughout the one-year grant period.

🤝🏼Powered by 8 80 Cities with funding from Balsam Foundation.

🔗 Meet the : www.ontariocommunitychangemakers.org/changemakers/ 🔗 Learn more: www.ontariocommunitychangemakers.org

10/02/2026

🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️Recently, 8 80 Cities Executive Director Amanda O'Rourke and Director of Programs & Development Jiya Benni led a walking tour as part of , exploring how streets can become powerful tools for climate action.

🚲The tour highlighted practical examples from Toronto's east end, where tactical pop-up projects helped pave the way for permanent infrastructure investments that support active mobility, safer public spaces, and more sustainable communities.

✅Participants visited the sites of several collaborative street redesign projects with city partners, including our 2019 8 80 Streets Danforth pop-up street makeover that transformed a block of Danforth Avenue into a more people-centred complete street over a weekend and our 2020 Quiet Streets program that we helped launch during the pandemic to support traffic calming on neighbourhood streets to create more spaces for physical distancing.

🙌🏼A special thank you to participants who joined from across Canada and to our colleagues at the City of Toronto, who shared insights on how pilot projects can strengthen collaboration across municipal departments and with community organizations. These partnerships can accelerate implementation, build public support, and help turn bold ideas into lasting change.

🏙️As cities face growing climate challenges, temporary interventions offer valuable opportunities to test solutions, build partnerships, and advance adaptation goals while creating more walkable, connected, and resilient communities.

09/30/2026

On September 30, we honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. Truth and Reconciliation begins by listening to lived experiences with humility, compassion, and respect.

This day is an opportunity to reflect on the enduring impacts of residential schools, honour the children who never returned home, and recognize the strength, resilience, and leadership of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

Truth and Reconciliation requires more than reflection. It calls for ongoing learning, meaningful relationships, accountability, and action.

At 8 80 Cities, we are committed to advancing reconciliation through our work and organizational practices. As we continue to learn, we strive to:

🔸 Support Indigenous-led programs, initiatives, and public space activations.

🔸 Integrate Indigenous perspectives, cultural awareness training, and ongoing learning into our team's professional development and organizational culture.

🔸 Build reciprocal relationships with Indigenous organizations and partners, ensuring Indigenous knowledge and contributions are respected and fairly compensated.

Our human rights and anti-oppression approach has been strengthened through guidance from Indigenous partners who remind us that our responsibility extends beyond one another to the land, water, and air that sustain us. As we work toward creating healthier, more equitable, and inclusive communities, we recognize the interconnectedness of all living things and the importance of Indigenous knowledge in shaping a more just future.

Today, we encourage everyone to take time to listen, learn, reflect, and act in support of Truth and Reconciliation.

09/28/2026

📧The September edition of the 8 80 Cities newsletter is here!
This month, we share:
📚 Inspiring articles, tools, and resources for healthier, more equitable communities
🌍 Updates on what our team has been working on for the 8 80 TowerPOPS project and the collaboration between the 8 80 TowerPOPS and the Ontario Community Changemakers fellows
📹Inspiring videos and podcast episodes, toolkits and resources and more!
🔗https://mailchi.mp/880cities.org/8-80-cities-september-newsletter-qfgq7hvu1y
📝 You can subscribe at this link if you haven't done it already: https://www.880cities.org/subscribe/

09/25/2026

Our 2025–2026 Ontario Community Changemakers have been hard at work bringing their inspiring projects to life. Let’s check in on Esther, Karen, Robert, Loretta, Nelly, and Shalaka to see what they’ve been up to!

✨These have been making waves in their communities in just six months of working on their projects. Scroll through to read more about Wabshkaa Animkii Benesii Cultural Hub & Storytelling Lodge, Kitchen Table Sesh, Helping Our Community Together, Plays in Public: Creative Expression and Connection, M.A.Y.A. — Meeting Area for Youth & Adults (Broken But Not Lost), and Sandhills Lawn Games Club.

Helping Our Community Together: https://www.facebook.com/groups/910885515115309
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09/16/2026

Our 2025–2026 Ontario Community Changemakers have been hard at work bringing their inspiring projects to life. Let’s check in on Kathie, Bolu, Andre, Lucy, Abubaker, and Negar to see what they’ve been up to!

✨These have been making waves in their communities in just six months of working on their projects. Scroll through to read more about AccessABLE Spaces, Project SPF (Sisterhood Protection Factor), Echoes of Home: A Kulintang and Community Choir Project, Cycle Safe Ottawa, Voice Up: Diaspora Market Stories, and Windows of Memory.

Park People / Ami·es des parcs

09/15/2026

Summer was busy for Growing Healthy Places in Mississauga as we prepared for back to school! ☀️🎒

We spent the summer refreshing school spaces, with painted tarmac games and activities, new seating, shade, and more.

As part of this 8 80 Cities and Ophea collaborative project, our 8 80 team is leading the activation of school spaces, working alongside partners and school communities to bring co-created ideas into the physical spaces.

Now it is time to welcome students back. As the school year gets underway and the fall season comes into full swing 🍂, we will be back in these spaces with continued programming that gives students opportunities to play, move, connect, and help shape how their school spaces are used.

Stay tuned to see how we will bring these spaces to life, inspire school communities, and bring students into the process throughout the school year.

➡️ Swipe through for a look at some of the summer transformation

09/10/2026

🎉Back-to-School week is here, and we’re excited to share that 8 80 Cities is bringing School Streets back to Toronto as part of the National Active School Streets Initiative, a program funded by Healthy Canadians and led by Green Communities Canada.

❓Did you know?

🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️School Streets programs create car-free zones in front of schools at the start and/or end of the school day to support children’s physical activity and encourage walking, biking and rolling to school. 🚴🏼‍♂️🛴

‼️Stay tuned...more to come.

08/31/2026

📣The 8 80 Cities August Newsletter is now out! As we continue to celebrate our 20th anniversary, we share a new blog post on our 20-year series, this time sharing a collection of some of our Resources & Toolkits that we have developed throughout these years as part of our programs, projects and partnerships; and, as always, a set of curated articles, videos and podcast episodes, and a list of upcoming events.
😊Enjoy!
🔗Read it here: https://ow.ly/Xm1p50ZHsNk

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