👉️️ Tue June 23 → 7pm • in-person & online
One year in, the TWC Canada Organizing Committee facilitates a discussion addressing the worries tech workers face: layoffs, top-down AI mandates, and AI usage tracking.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉️️ Tue June 16 → 7pm • in-person & online
How child-friendly is your neighbourhood? Dr. Emily Gemmell (@egemmell.bsky.social) shares an urban playability index scoring how well Canada's 35 largest cities support kids' outdoor play and health!
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉️️ Tue June 9 → 7pm • in-person & online
Lightning updates from four Civic Tech projects: Landlord & Tenant Board data explorer, @bikespaceto.bsky.social, @techfordemocracy.bsky.social, and @civicdashboard.bsky.social. See what's new!
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉️️ Tue June 2 → 7pm • in-person & online
Using AI in your civic tech work but unsure how to build responsibly? Learn how Smol Gardens, a civic tech accountability framework, can help through a hands-on vibecoding workshop!
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉️️ Tue May 26 → 7pm • in-person & online
Maple Scan has helped thousands of Canadians support Canadian products. Sasha Ivanov will tell the story of how his app brought volunteers together to make product information more transparent.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉 Tue May 12 → 7pm • in-person & online
A frustrating search for places to play badminton led Ann Chen to build a drop-in programs finder with open data. She’ll share what she learned creating a tool to save people time when life gets busy.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉 Tue May 19 → 7pm • in-person & online
The housing system isn't broken from lack of listings — it's missing an intelligence layer. Bisola Mariam on what that means and how to fix it.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉 Tue Apr 28 → 7pm • in-person & online
Terra Gillespie (@terraloire.bsky.social) on how data gets dressed up to deceive — and how to spot the difference between honest numbers and misleading ones.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉 Tue May 5 → 7pm • in-person & online
Combining AI with municipal data opens new ways to understand how a city really works. Raviteja Katipally on what Toronto's 311 service requests tell us about neighbourhood patterns & city services.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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👉 Tue Apr 21 → 7pm • in-person & online
Poe Han Thar Kyaw on how governments actually govern AI — comparing values, mechanisms & tradeoffs across the world to find what works, and where Canada fits in.
✚ discussions & breakouts!
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