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While we've been around a few years, the Vancouver Learning City remains a loosely organized initiative operating with few resources. Until we resolve the resource issue, we are resigned to proceeding on a fairly small scale. It has been stimulating and encouraging to learn through this exchange of the successes, plans and challenges of other learning community organizations around the world. We would be most keenly interested in continuing dialogue around the following themes:

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Vancouver Learning City - A Few Reflections

Upon reflection, and at the risk of lending credence to the “misery loves company” notion, I have to admit it was reassuring to learn that many of the most daunting challenges faced by the Vancouver Learning City are ones being grappled with elsewhere. True, there were no “silver bullets” fired in our exchange, but I think we all emerged somewhat better armed for battle. And therein lies the crux: Why does it feel like such a fight to create sustainable learning communities? Why should promoting lifelong learning to advance people’s wellbeing and quality of life be s

Vancouver Stimulus Paper

Vancouver has experience as a learning city since 2006 addressing the challenge of inclusive engagement of the whole community with innovations in strategies to engage the disengaged...