How BC’s Local Governments are keeping their communities active during COVID-19
With the mass closures of recreation and parks facilities and programs as a result of COVID-19 physical distancing requirements, local governments and their recreation...
Adapting Your Leadership Style: Guiding your team through a COVID-19 induced Work-From-Home reality
Ready, set, innovate!
In the first days of March 2020, BCRPA recognized that the newly implemented provincial and federal preventative measures to combat the spread...
New Roots: Strengthening youth mental health through nature
Youth mental health - a very real concern in Canada
The Canadian Mental Health Association reports that, “over half of Canadians (53%) consider anxiety and...
Utilizing your natural environment to expand community recreation opportunities
Opening Access to Hudson Hope’s Trail Network
Small rural communities often lack the resources to operate a comprehensive portfolio of traditional municipal recreation opportunities. Smaller...
Creative Partnerships: How Golden’s lifeguard shortage mobilized a community
Golden is a small town of almost four thousand people, nestled between six of Canada’s national parks. The Golden Municipal Swimming Pool opened in...
Event Coordination, Are Your Risks Covered?
Within municipal government, we all are familiar with coordinating contractors when completing infrastructure based construction projects or road maintenance. But, when you think about...
Creating Safe and Welcoming Spaces
How the Vancouver Park Board aims to make community centres more welcoming to transgender people.
It is the duty of public facilities to be safe...
What drives happiness in the workplace?
I have always been interested in the topic of happiness, and so as part of the completion of my Masters of Arts in Leadership...
Recreational waterfront risks: Are you covered?
Risk Management Considerations for Public Recreational Waterfronts
Whether it’s ocean-side, a lake-front or a river park, recreational waterfronts enhance the vitality of a community, providing...
Fire: Recreation Services BC Wildfires
Reflecting on the role that recreation services teams played during the wildfire season of 2017 in British Columbia was a difficult task. Every person...