How Can Transit Investments Multi-Solve Canada’s Urban Challenges?
| | | | | How Can Transit Investments Multi-Solve Canada’s Urban Challenges? Thursday, June 18, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. ET | Live Zoom Webinar | | Canadian cities are under pressure to do more with less—delivering housing, mobility, and economic opportunity in more coordinated and resilient ways. As major federal investments take shape, the question is not just what we build, but how our investments can be leveraged to create complete, connected communities. Policymakers, urban leaders, developers and investors: Register now to explore how ground-level data can help Canada make stronger investments with better community outcomes. | | | |
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| | National Director | Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing Dina Graser is a consultant specializing in urban projects that build and engage communities, with a focus on equitable economic development. She is currently Director of CATCH, an initiative of Social Innovation Canada. Previous clients include the Canadian Urban Institute, Evergreen, and the Canadian Women's Foundation. She was Project Director of the National Housing Collaborative (2016–2018) and the first Director of Community and Stakeholder Relations at Metrolinx (2010–2014), where she pioneered the community benefits framework for the $5B Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Before that, she was a communications lawyer, planning activist, and producer of arts festivals and community events. |
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| | Public Health Project Lead | Digital Public Square Effie is a public health and social impact professional with experience working across health systems, community-based research, knowledge translation, and digital health innovation. She has a strong interest in connecting data, lived experience, and implementation to support more responsive and equitable solutions. At Digital Public Square, Effie has contributed to a diverse portfolio of projects focused on countering misinformation and raising awareness of priority social issues, including gender-based violence, opioid and substance use harm reduction, vaccine confidence, and most recently, transit-oriented development. |
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| | Director of Research | Canadian Urban Institute Greg has over 20 years of experience in urban and economic development policy and research, working in consulting and academia across Canada, the UK, and Ireland. He has co-authored reports with Brookings Metro, the Martin Prosperity Institute, and NESTA, and published op-eds in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and The Guardian. Greg holds a PhD in Economic Geography and an MSc in Planning from the University of Toronto, and a BA in Geography from Bishops University. |
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| | Director | School of Cities, University of Toronto Karen Chapple, PhD, is Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto and Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on inequality, housing, and economic development in cities and regions. Recent books include Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (MIT Press, 2019). She co-founded the Urban Displacement Project in 2015 and leads the Downtown Recovery and Mapping Tariffs research projects. She has received the RSA's Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field, among other honours. |
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