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The Planning Committee is advancing efforts to strengthen coordination, transparency, and shared decision-making across the SDP Stakeholders Table, as members reviewed a series of updates aimed at aligning priorities and improving how the initiative operates across its working groups and community partners.

Residents, youth, and community leaders gathered at the Regent Park Centre for Excellence on February 7 for the Black Excellence Panel, hosted by Chris Moise as part of Black History Month programming in Ward 13, Toronto Centre. The event brought together senior leaders from across Toronto’s public and non-profit sectors to reflect on leadership, representation, and opportunity — themes that remain central to Black History Month and to communities navigating systemic inequities. Moderated by Deputy City Manager Denise Campbell, the panel featured Nadia Gouveia, Chief Operating Officer at Toronto Community Housing Corporation; Dr. Na-Koshi Lamptey, Medical Officer of Health at Toronto Public Health; and Nigel Barriffe, President of Urban Alliance on Race Relations and Vice President of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto. Panelists shared personal journeys of advancement into senior leadership roles, speaking candidly about challenges, mentorship, and the responsibility of creating pathw...

On February 24, 2026, residents gathered to celebrate Black History Month through one of humanity’s oldest and most powerful cultural traditions: storytelling. Hosted by Radio Regent's own Murphy Brown, the evening featured Anansi folktales. Brown, a journalist, radio host, storyteller, and activist, framed the stories not as simple entertainment but as living history. Drawing on her African-centred upbringing in South America, she describes storytelling as a lineage shaped by elders and ancestral knowledge. Her work carries forward the role of elders as knowledge-keepers and culture-bearers, ensuring that cultural memory remains active within community life.