Community Reflections & Insights – 2019

Through On the Table, we’ve created a catalyst and platform that encourages people to connect more meaningfully to one another. It is exciting and inspiring to see such as diversity of ages, sectors and topics of conversation emerge across the province. Check out our latest report to learn more.


Community Reflections & Insights

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You can also see the results from 2018, the first year of On the Table BC.

Read the 2018 Report

Explore the Conversations

  1. Community Engagement & Participation (46)
  2. Inclusion & Belonging (28)
  3. Wellbeing & Vitality (28)
  4. Learning & Storytelling (21)
  5. The Built Environment (15)
  6. Climate Action & Climate Emergency (13)
  7. Arts, Culture, and Creativity (14)
  8. Social & Environmental Shifts (14)
  9. Food Security & Nourishment (10)
  10. The Voice of Youth (8)
  11. Just for Fun (11)

1. Community Engagement & Participation (25%)

  1. Better-connected Neighbourhoods
  2. “Love where you live,” Steveston edition
  3. A flourishing neighbourhood
  4. Age-friendly communities
  5. Being neighbourly
  6. Building community (x7)
  7. Building community in our community
  8. Co-operation
  9. Community building in small towns
  10. Community care
  11. Community chats
  12. Community connections (x3)
  13. Community for all
  14. Community inclusion
  15. Community involvement
  16. Community participation
  17. Community resilience
  18. Community visioning
  19. Community
  20. Community activities
  21. Creating a caring Dunbar
  22. Enjoying neighbourhood connections
  23. How can we build a better community
  24. How to create a safe and welcoming community
  25. Let’s connect
  26. Let’s talk community
  27. Meeting the neighbours (x2)
  28. Neighbourhood association
  29. Neighbourly chats on Forest Hills Drive
  30. Nova Scotianers
  31. Socially engaging minority communities
  32. How VR builds community
  33. Encouraging volunteerism (x2)
  34. CPAWS
  35. Life in Vancouver
  36. Macbeth neighbourhood block watch
  37. Making Vancouver fun
  38. Micro communities
  39. Politics
  40. UN Convention on the Rights of PWD
  41. Shared economy (library of things)
  42. What’s good in the hood?
  43. What service means to me
  44. What’s your favourite place in town and why?
  45. Who lives in our hood?
  46. Will you be my neighbour?

2. Inclusion & Belonging (15%)

  1. A more equitable society
  2. Breaking the isolation
  3. Building inclusive community
  4. Building more inclusive cities
  5. Belonging: what it means to each of us
  6. Belonging to the community
  7. Club 50+: supporting older women finding work
  8. Diversity in our community
  9. Gender equality (x3)
  10. Fat-friendly spaces
  11. Friends of the Similkameen
  12. Friendship
  13. Friendship as we age
  14. From around the world
  15. Helping new Amica residents feel welcome
  16. Home is where the heart is
  17. Immigration
  18. Inclusivity and personal well-being
  19. Interracial collaboration
  20. Interracial relationships
  21. Migration stories
  22. Navigating life in our 30s
  23. Potluck, People, and PRIDE
  24. Reconnecting
  25. Senior’s issues
  26. Social acceptance
  27. Social isolation and resiliency
  28. What is home?

3. Wellbeing & Vitality (12%)

  1. Autism and friendships
  2. Being with change
  3. Brain injury in our community
  4. Connecting
  5. Connection
  6. Conversation
  7. Conversation
  8. Conversations about community
  9. Conversations with neighbours
  10. Coming home:what does it mean to you?
  11. Creating a sisterhood circle
  12. Domestic violence NPD abuse survivors
  13. Dying well
  14. Gut feelings: how our guts affect us
  15. Joy and responsibility
  16. Life in the balance
  17. Living
  18. Menopause
  19. Mental health
  20. Mental health week launch
  21. Self care: finding love and joy
  22. Things that help us thrive
  23. What brings you joy
  24. The labour of love
  25. Autumn hikes
  26. Let’s chat about the next chapter
  27. Expanding horizons
  28. Food, sport, daily life in Vancouver

4. Learning & Storytelling (8%)

  1. Doing battle with overabundance
  2. Family Traditions x 2
  3. Following Jesus
  4. FSJ northern learning cohort
  5. High school angst
  6. How do we get ABA in schools?
  7. Learning
  8. Patients in education
  9. Sharing stories of our home waters
  10. Storytelling & oral heritage
  11. Storytelling and burnout
  12. Support university students initiatives
  13. Underlying connections
  14. Talent management
  15. Job Search
  16. Work force shortage – revisited
  17. WBS-“That the World May Know”
  18. Small Business
  19. Social Media Scams
  20. Team Building
  21. Tech supporting Humans

5. The Built Environment (8%)

  1. Daycare, shelter & transportation
  2. Future Homes for our Amazing Kids
  3. Shaping the City and City Wide Plan
  4. The Granville Connector
  5. Vancouver
  6. Vancouver as a new home
  7. Vancouver eco transportation & mobility
  8. Wastewater treatment, and contaminants
  9. History and future of heron point
  10. Co-housing Conversations
  11. Fresh Ideas for Salmo
  12. New cities 
  13. Sustainability in our building
  14. The future of Steveston
  15. Preserve legacy world heritage sites

6. Climate Action & Climate Emergency (7%)

  1. Business for Climate Action
  2. Climate Action x 3
  3. Climate change action
  4. climate emergency
  5. Connecting to nature for climate action
  6. Our world & global warming
  7. Steps to going green
  8. Sustainable food systems
  9. tackling environmental issues
  10. UN sustainable development G=goals
  11. What does zero waste mean to you?
  12. What the world needs now is…
  13. Your actions on Environmental impact

7. Arts, Culture, & Creativity (7%)

  1. A  creative conspiracy
  2. A guide to making better creative work
  3. Community arts & culture in the Koots
  4. Connecting with local creatives
  5. Democracy
  6. Democracy and belonging
  7. Culture
  8. empowering Vancouver musicians
  9. how live theatre has changed our life
  10. Music in us
  11. Should barriers to artistic freedom exist ? What are the most common barriers ? Are they personal or social ?
  12. Sustainability in the arts
  13. The genocide of a culture
  14. The Vancouver art scene

 

8. Social & Environmental Shifts (6%)

  1. Dependency on plastics, preteen-teens
  2. Providing a welcome to refugees
  3. Blacks and Canadian policies
  4. Creative actions for social change
  5. Environmental stewardship
  6. Let’s talk food waste!
  7. Nanaimo’s low carbon future
  8. Rainbow Refugee
  9. REAL reconciliation
  10. Reconciliation
  11. Revitalizing the non-profit identity
  12. Second-hand clothes
  13. The journey of reconciliation
  14. Women in leadership

9. Food Security & Nourishment (5%)

  1. A balanced breakfast
  2. Affordable health nutrition
  3. Breakfast with your neighbours
  4. Breakfast, lunch or appetizers
  5. Development and sale of local food
  6. Envisioning school gardens
  7. Food security in the Jewish Community
  8. Food Sustainability
  9. The Just Food Foundation
  10. Revelling in the fruits of our labour

10. The Voice of Youth (4%)

  1. Millennials in mining
  2. Junior youth spiritual empowerment
  3. Working with the millennial generation
  4. Youth anxiety
  5. Youth engagement
  6. Youth from care
  7. Youth in food systems for the future
  8. Youth in the Parksville area

11. Just for Fun (3%)

  1. Barbers who sneeze on you
  2. Girls just wanna have fun
  3. HELLO game
  4. Ice cream
  5. Karaoke
  6. Pet peeves
  7. Pets
  8. Poking fun at yourself
  9. Super Heroes
  10. What comes after Z?
  11. Your favourite books