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Connecting Urban Windsorites to Nature Through Active Transportation
December 9, 2024 - Tamara Belley
This post explores the significance of active transportation infrastructure that could make the proposed NUP and other greenspace in Windsor accessible for more people, in line with NUPH's priority of “connecting Canadians to nature,” which “seeks to reduce barriers to ensure that more people can have meaningful experiences in urban green space.” Increasing active transportation is considered in the context of Windsor planning policy.
Newcomer Access to Green Spaces in Windsor
March 18, 2024 - Safa Youness
The National Urban Park (NUP) Program has three core objectives: conservation of nature, connecting people with nature, and advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Grasping what achieving the second objective will mean in relation to the proposed National Urban Park in Windsor requires an understanding of the demographics of the region.
Lessons from Parks Canada's History Inform New Paths through the National Urban Parks Program
March 14, 2024 - Asvini Kulanayagam
Parks Canada is a Canadian federal agency with the mandate to “protect and present” nationally significant areas of land, and to preserve their ecological and cultural integrity for present and future generations to discover and enjoy. The 2002 Parks Canada Charter provides a base for the agency's current expansion and reimagination.
We acknowledge with gratitude the land, air, water, fire and all the beings of creation that sustain us. We honour the longstanding relations of many First Peoples to this place since time immemorial (including the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, Lunaapee, and Huron/Wendat Peoples). We acknowledge colonial harms. We commit to renewed and respectful relations to people, nature and this place.
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