OSUM 2026 Presentations

Wednesday, April 29th

• Planning Canada’s Next Deep Geological Repository: Your Voice Matters, sponsored by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization
  • Planning Canada’s Second Deep Geological Repository: Your Voice Matters

Thursday, April 30th

• Remarks from Althia Raj: The Canadian Political Landscape
  • The Canadian Political Landscape
• AMO Advocacy Update: Karen Nesbitt, Director of Policy, AMO
  • AMO Advocacy Update
•  Municipal Governance and Leadership in Ontario: Insights into AMO's Leading with Respect Strategy and New Council Education: Why it matters
  • Brenda Orchard, President, CAMA and CAO, Lennox and Addington
    • A National Engagement Initiative of CAMA
  • Petra Wolfbeiss, Director of Membership, AMO
    • AMO's Leading With Respect Handguides-support in a changing political landscape.
• AMO Indigenous Reconciliation Action Plan
  • AMO IRAP
• Strengthening Municipal Communications in a Changing Information Environment
  • John Hammill, Regional Publisher & General Manager, Village Media
    • Community Conversation: How do we put public input into real conversation
  • Kate Ingram, Manager of Communications, Municipality of Port Hope
    • How Communications Helped Reduce Online Incivility During a Major Downtown Infrastructure Project

Friday, May 1st

• New Insights - Municipalities Under Pressure One Year Later: An Update on the Growing Human and Financial Cost of Ontario's Homelessness Crisis: Michael Jacek, Senior Advisor, AMO
  • Homelessness Update
• Ontario's Public Libraries - Community Innovators, Builders, and Municipal Partners
  • Meagan Wilkinson, CEO, Orillia Public Library
  • Erin Scuccimarri, CEO, Innisfil ideaLAB & Library
    • Community Innovators, Builders, & Municipal Partners
• Christina Pavone, Director of Business Services, AMO
  • LAS Forward Strategic Reorientation Framework