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Councillor Nate Higgins

It took a lot of encouragement for me to understand that being elected could be a platform to increase the impact of the work I was already doing.

Councillor Jacob Morton

As a young councillor, it’s easy to feel a sense of imposter syndrome, but remember: you’ve been elected and entrusted by your community to represent and speak for them.

Councillor Chris Northwood

Democracy is strongest when elected representatives actually represent the whole gamut of lived experience in our society.

Neighbourhoods: from policy intent to lived reality

In his blog, Mike Barker argues that neighbourhood health must be treated not as a service redesign but as a way of governing, rooted in local leadership, relationships and genuine devolution if national policy intent is to become lived reality.

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