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CivicAction
The Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance (formerly the Toronto City Summit Alliance), commonly known as CivicAction, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Toronto that attempts to boost civic engagement and address urban challenges in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Organization CivicAction was created by David Pecaut following a 2002 summit of business and community leaders.{{Cite web, url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/12/15/knelman_david_pecaut_54_greatest_mayor_toronto_never_had.html, title=Knelman: David Pecaut, 54: 'Greatest mayor Toronto never had' {{! Toronto Star, website=thestar.com, access-date=2017-06-16 Pecaut led a 40-member committee that generated Enough Talk: An Action Plan for the Toronto Region, which provided the roadmap for the organization's focus on issues where there was consensus for action and where it felt progress could be made quickly. CivicAction adopted its current name in December 2010. Following Enough Talk, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pecaut
David Kent Pecaut, (September 14, 1955 – December 14, 2009) was a US-born Canadian civic leader. He co-founded and sat on the board of the Toronto City Summit Alliance. Personal life Pecaut was born to Richard and Dorothy (Kent) Pecaut and was raised in Sioux City, Iowa. He attended West High School before going to Harvard University (BA Sociology 1977) and University of Sussex (MA Philosophy 1978). He returned to Sioux City to work for Terra Chemicals before moving to Toronto in the 1980s. Pecaut was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in November 2009. He died on December 14, 2009 at his Toronto residence due to colorectal cancer. He was 54 years old and survived by his wife Helen Burstyn and their daughters Lauren Burstyn Lawrence and her husband Matt, of Los Angeles, CA; Amy Burstyn, Sarah Pecaut and Rebecca Pecaut of Toronto; a brother Dan Pecaut and his wife Kay, of Sioux City, Iowa; a sister Stacey Gerhart of Sioux City, Iowa; a sister Mary Pecaut and her h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
