The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA) is collecting data in order to better understand the impact COVID-19 has had on arts and culture organizations across the province. Aggregate data will be shared with funders, and arts service organizations for regional, provincial, and national reporting.

Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) will be sharing disability-related resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic on this page, pulled together in one spot for families. New resources will be added as they are developed.

A google doc put together by Limage Media Group that maps emergency food services, supervised consumption sites, handwashing stations, parks and facilities and Downtown East Side facilities

Sprawl Kids is posting specific assignments each week in the form of questions. And kids are the journalists! Here’s Sprawl Kids assignment #2: What is something on your street that makes you feel happy right now? Draw a picture of it. You can see more on Twitter using hashtag #sprawlkidsyyc.

Roundhouse, an Edmonton-based social enterprise and co-working space is offering “virtual coworking” during COVID-19. As a community hub for entrepreneurs and changemakers, they are rolling out a new suite of online programming “Roundhouse From Home”. They will be offering online versions of our Roundhouse Learning Series, Waffle Wednesday and even daily coworking chats. Check out the full schedule for more information.

Creating safe and equitable spaces needs to happen online, just as much as it happens in-person (if not more so). How can we take an equity lens to our online convening? Cicely Belle Blain and Alia Ali, to discuss equity, safety and inclusion in online engagement. This webinar will explore the experience of minority communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and explore innovations and tips from different communities to create meaningful and respectful online engagement spaces. This interactive session will allow our guests and participants to share their good practices for building equity in online engagement. SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

This fulsome list is a living document collected by Vancouver’s SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University

Currently entries are focused on COVID19 responses

Digital exclusion goes hand in hand with social, economic and political exclusion. It is also complex: people need the appropriate device, connection, skills, confidence, and motivation as well as the ability to maintain those through changing circumstances.

Le programme de dépistage COVID-19 en ligne de l’entreprise sera couvert par le Régime d’assurance-santé de l’Ontario (PISO). Le dépistage permettra aux ontariennes titulaires d’une carte de l’Assurance-santé valide de parler à un médecin par le biais d’un chat audio ou vidéo au sujet de leurs symptômes et de recevoir des conseils sur la question de savoir s’ils ont besoin de tests ou de soins d’urgence. Le service vise à alléger la pression sur les salles d’urgence surchargées et à permettre aux patients de recevoir un dépistage en toute sécurité. Maple offre également son logiciel de clinique virtuelle à tous les médecins de l’Ontario et de la Colombie-Britannique (Colombie-Britannique) gratuitement au milieu de l’éclosion.

The company’s online COVID-19 screening program will be covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). The screening will allow people in Ontario with a valid OHIP card to talk to a physician through audio or video chat about their symptoms and receive advice on whether they need testing or emergency care. The service is aimed to relieve the pressure on overloaded emergency rooms and allow patients to receive screening safely. Maple is also currently offering its virtual clinic software to all Ontario and British Columbia (BC) physicians free of charge amid the outbreak.

Compiled by Rosemary Morgan, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Survey results will inform decision makers on how to support the innovation ecosystem.

Multidisciplinary team works toward creating an emergency pandemic ventilator.

Data scientists are tracking the spread of COVID-19 in Alberta and advising on best interventions to flatten the curve.

Startup Calgary has created a resource for the start-up community to navigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Two of Canada’s most densely populated cities are looking at barring auto traffic from parts of their streets so pedestrians can spread out and maintain the proper distance from each other. Toronto and Vancouver are following the lead of other jurisdictions as officials grapple with how to allow for safe movement during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to facilitate outdoor respite for people confined to small urban dwellings.

La réponse DTES vise à activer les réseaux communautaires afin de créer un plan d’arrêt pour les besoins urgents des plus vulnérables. À l’heure actuelle, le groupe mobilise des ressources et coordonne les opérations.

The DTES Response aims to activate community networks to create a stop-gap plan for the urgent needs of the most vulnerable. Right now, the group is mobilizing resources and coordinating operations.

SaveSmallBusiness.ca is a grassroots coalition of small businesses across Canada united in their opposition to a debt-forward solution to the COVID-19 economic crisis. Suggestions include bailout plans, wage subsidies, grants, and other non-debt solutions.

Resources include digital meetups, business continuity checklists, resources to create a crisis plan and help navigating provincial and federal support

Residents living on 41 streets in this Montreal suburb decorated their homes and yards with shamrocks. Armed with a map — virtual or on paper — participants drove around town, looking for shamrocks.

The Facebook site provides information where you can order a meal and join a call to talk about what’s happening in the downtown and how local residents can support small business. The first #EatWithMeYEG was the YEG Chinatown Take-Out Edition to support businesses and restaurants affected by racism and xenophobia resulting from COVID-19.

Stay’n’Play Parenting à Regina a lancé une « chasse au cœur à grande échelle de la ville », avec des cœurs faits maison affichés dans les fenêtres à travers la ville. Il a été conçu comme un moyen pour les familles de se déplacer à l’extérieur tout en restant distanciation sociale. Site Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StaynPlayParenting/

Stay’n’Play Parenting in Regina has started a “A City Wide Heart Hunt,” with homemade hearts displayed in windows across the city. It was designed as a way for families to get moving outside while still social distancing. Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/StaynPlayParenting/

Le Code Life Ventilator Challenge, une coentreprise nouvellement annoncée par la Fondation de l’Hôpital général de Montréal, en collaboration avec l’Institut de recherche du Centre universitaire de santé McGill (RI-CUSM), « demande aux équipes de concevoir un ventilateur simple, peu coûteux, facile à fabriquer et facile à entretenir qui pourrait être déployé partout où il est nécessaire pour sauver des vies ». La date limite est le 31 mars 2020 et le défi est soutenu par un prix de 200 000 $CAN. Les trois meilleurs modèles seront rendus gratuits à télécharger immédiatement.

The Code Life Ventilator Challenge, a newly announced joint venture by the Montreal General Hospital Foundation, in collaboration with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), is “calling for teams to design a simple, low-cost, easy-to-manufacture and easy-to-maintain ventilator which could be deployed anywhere needed to save lives.” The deadline is March 31, 2020 and the challenge is backed by a prize of CAD$200,000. The top three designs will be made free to download immediately.

By purchasing gift cards and certificates, the community can help independent businesses cover their critical expenses and gives them a boost during this difficult time.

A crowd-sourced list of employers who are hiring across Canada, organized by Unbounce, a Vancouver-based software company.

Abundant Community Edmonton is a grassroots initiative fostering neighbour to neighbour relationships. The goal is to cultivate a culture of care and connection, increased sense of belonging and inclusion, and create a more healthy and livable city – one block at a time. Set up pre-COVID, these groups are now mobilizing to provide support to vulnerable residents.