03/23/2026
The Walter Gordon Symposium 2026 is returning this year with a timely and urgent focus: Rethinking Canada’s Affordability Crisis: Cross Sectoral Perspectives, Challenges, and Solutions.
As the rising cost of living continues to impact communities across Canada and beyond, ensuring access to housing, food security, and healthcare remains at the forefront of public policy discussions. At the same time, these challenges are shaped by broader global forces from supply chain disruptions to geopolitical tensions and the climate crisis, deepening existing socio economic inequalities.
Hosted by the Public Policy Program at Massey College in collaboration with the University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, this year’s symposium will convene policymakers, community leaders, academics, and individuals with lived and living experience.
Together, participants will move beyond discussion to co develop meaningful, evidence based solutions to one of the most pressing issues of our time.
The symposium will feature three panels focused on housing, food security, and healthcare, moderated by Junior Fellows James Lautens, Benjamin Rabishaw, and Renée Sirbu Sirbu.
Location: Massey College, University of Toronto. Hybrid event with livestream available.
🔗 Register here: https://www.masseycollege.ca/events/walter-gordon-symposium-2026/
We look forward to welcoming you to this important conversation.
Addressing the rising cost of living and advancing efforts to secure adequate accessto housing, food security, and healthcare have dominated the public policy agendafor virtually all levels of government, both at home and across the globe. In Canadaalone, a growing number of households report diffic...
