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Sarah McVie

Sarah McVie

Canadian actress and playwright

Oct 21, 2026

25:33
But anyway, so what is the realistic timeline for the first new cooperative home?
25:40
Right.
25:40
So the first 60 days, the inventory, and then in the next 60 days, connecting with partnership organizations like the United Way, the YMCA, Habitat for Humanity.
25:52
But at the same time, another part of our platform is creating neighborhood assemblies because we have committed to community-led planning.
25:59
The land planning and development process here in Toronto, In my experience and from the experience that I'm absorbing from others is that it's performative.
26:10
There are these sort of consultations and what they hear from the residents doesn't actually end up in the outcomes.
26:17
So you're seeing displacement, you know, in communities like Little Jamaica, they're having a serious problem with gentrification and displacement, and they don't feel they're being heard.

21 MINS LATER

47:42
It's your
7:49
What meaningful difference do I want someone to feel in their life? Well, there's
7:52
two answers.
7:53
There's the practical things that I would do, and those are all in the platform.
7:56
I can talk about those structural, practical things we could do tomorrow.
8:00
You know, like existing stock, like buildings that sit empty.
8:03
There's about 100 of them, at least.
8:05
We would have to do an inventory, but there's at least 100 that could be released into cooperative ownership models, which work.

7 MINS LATER

15:17
And so I wonder for you, like, how do you see the balance between we want to focus on harm reduction because we, you know, maybe we believe that the public health measure is more effective, but we also value maintaining public spaces being safe.

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