This year again, local leaders gathered their neighbours, built connections, and restored nature in projects big and small. The movement continues to expand, and we're pleased to share just some of these impacts in our 2025 Impact Report.
As urban parks face growing demands amid climate change, inequality and shrinking resources, the people shaping their future need space to reconnect, share ideas and imagine new ways of working together.
This guide walks you through how to start and grow a park group in Toronto, from planning your first meeting to organizing activities, reaching new people, and navigating City permits, funding, and support.
Explore low-cost, high-impact supports that park-based organizations can provide to equity-deserving communities to help make nature spaces and programs more accessible and enjoyable.
Parc Jarry in Montreal, Toronto’s waterfront, CRAB Park in Vancouver… People are coming together to protect the places they love.
What could Toronto’s parks look like in the years ahead? Our 2026 Parks Platform brings together ideas from Torontonians and four priorities for a more resilient, joyful and connected city.
Hosted by Park People and World Urban Parks, this global gathering will bring together 450+ park leaders from Canada and around the world to share and explore practical and creative park and public space ideas, and seed new relationships, collaborations, and ways of working.
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Member, Les Amis du Champ des Possibles
Joshua Wolfe holds a master’s in urban planning. He has worked for various municipalities (in Quebec and California) and public organizations, including Héritage Montréal, and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). He has also taught university-level courses in urban planning, sustainable development, and public engagement. Joshua has worked with a number of environmental non-governmental organizations, municipal authorities and community groups, including the Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal, the Office de consultation publique de Montréal, the Comité des citoyens du Mile End, and Mile End Memories, a committed local history society.
Since 2021, he has served on the Board of Les Amis du Champ des Possibles, contributing to governance and internal management, planning for the organization’s future following land decontamination, and serving as a liaison with the borough. For him, the organization offers, above all, a sanctuary for the other species we share this planet with – a space where coexistence is possible without domination.