Join us for Planning for Community Safety a two day, in person, workshop and community exchange in Ottawa, February 14+15 2006 (with an opening celebration on the 13th) + share with your networks!

The goal for these two days is to bring together planning practitioners and abolition, transformative and restorative justice practitioners to learn more about each other's work; share skills and ideas to better support and collaborate with each other; and share what we are learning together with a wider audience.

The ideal participant is committed to community safety that doesn't rely on on policing, is excited by the possibility of fully resourcing our communities, and ready to work to build ecosystems of care to do that work.

We hope to bring together about twenty participants.
Travel, hotel stays and most meals will be provided, and we have limited support for additional child or family costs related to participation.

More information about the event and the application process.

Key dates and events:

• Online Information Session
  November 27, 2025 1-2p eastern
  Register to participate, or send questions

• Deadline for Workshop Application
  December 15, 2025, 11:59p your local time
  Apply here

• Notification of Acceptance
  December 19, 2025

• Confirm your Participation
  January 12, 2026

• Arrive in Ottawa!
  February 13 2026

à bientôt
planningforabolition@carleton.ca

Learning + Action

This month some victories small and large!
Share the victories you are seeing so we can amplify that work.

• Ontario government backs down on consultations to end rent control, indefinite leases [CBC News]

• Cooperative provides safe, equitable, fairly-paid work for cleaners [Redeye Collective]

• Court rules Ottawa’s police board violated critic’s freedom of expression [CBC News]

• This Ontario town is on a mission to end homelessness by 2027. Here’s how it’s going [As it Happens]

• Why cities around the world are uniting to keep cool [Grist]