Indigenous Caucus Social & Networking | Monday April 8, 7:00-9:00pm
This event is sponsored by Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services 
and presented in partnership with NICHI 
The Indigenous Caucus and NICHI invite you to an evening of socializing and networking. Browse the Indigenous Maker's Market while enjoying refreshments, catching up with colleagues, and making new connections. This event is open to all who purchase a ticket upon registration.
Indigenous Makers Market | Monday April 8, 7:00-9:00pm, Tuesday April 9, 8:30am-2:00pm
New for 2024! Enjoy the Indigenous Maker’s Market, taking place during the Indigenous Innovation Forum and the Pre-Congress courses on April 9. Bring home some unique arts and crafts and support local Indigenous artists and craftspeople!
Are you an Indigenous Maker? Would you like to participate? Sign up to reserve your booth.
Let’s Solve the Housing Crisis: HOUSINGACTION.CA | Tuesday April 9, 5:00-6:30pm | The Playhouse
The housing crisis demands the collective effort of millions of Canadians and diverse organizations, uniting volunteers, tradespeople, non-profits, and governments at all levels.
Embark on a transformative journey at HOUSINGACTION.CA, spanning a century of Canadian housing from 1944 to 2044. Discover the roots of our current crisis and the crucial steps needed for a solution, exploring non-market housing, homelessness, YIMBYISM, and public funding.
This immersive experience invites students, professionals, seniors, and housing experts to join an interactive presentation. Brace yourself for a powerful call to action, urging each audience member to pledge at least one impactful act, from donating items to volunteering, or pursuing a career in the non-market housing sector. Together, let's reshape the future of housing in Canada!
Welcome Party – brought to you by the Housing School | Tuesday April 9, 7:30-10:00pm | Beaverbrook Art Gallery
We’re taking you back to high school for the Congress Welcome Party! Come together with your colleagues for a mix-and-mingle cocktail reception to celebrate beginning of Congress 2024. Take the chance to dress up like you did in high school and recapture the excitement of going back to school, in honour of the Community Housing Transformation Centre’s soon-to-be-launched Housing School! Dress-up is strongly encouraged; we can’t wait to see all the different eras of our Congress attendees’ high school years represented!
Sponsored by the Community Housing Transformation Centre 
Congress Kick-Off | Wednesday, April 10, 9:00-10:30am
French translation will be available.
Join us to start Congress off right with special guests and speakers.
Speakers to be announced.
CMHC’s Houser’s Den Challenge | Wednesday, April 10, 3:45pm-5:15pm
Sponsored by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation 
French translation will be available.
Houser's Den is a dynamic and interactive event designed to support and encourage innovative housing featuring projects that were submitted to Round 5 of the CMHC Housing Supply Challenge.
Hosted by Julie McNamara, CHRA’s Director of Programs, Partnerships and Events, and Mel Willerth, CHRA's Senior Manager of Education, Houser's Den takes inspiration from the popular TV show, Dragons' Den and will feature a live presentation of innovative housing projects. Our event will focus on community-driven initiatives that align with CMHC's objectives related to fostering affordable and sustainable housing solutions. Judges and the crowd will select awards for the projects.
President’s Kitchen Party | Wednesday, April 10, 7:00-10:00pm | Delta Fredericton
Sponsored by The Aboriginal Housing Management Association 
Join us at the CHRA President’s Kitchen Party! We’re taking advantage of our location in Fredericton to enjoy a truly unique local event: a kitchen party with an Indigenous twist. Catch up with your colleagues, make new friends, and celebrate our sector with food and drinks in a casual setting.
Keynote Address | Thursday, April 11, 9:00-10:30am
Jeff Rubin
Economist; Energy, Trade, and Financial Markets Expert; Bestselling Author
Sponsored by Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services
French translation will be available
Jeff Rubin is an award-winning economist and author. He spent two decades as the chief economist at CIBC World Markets where he
received 10 citations as Canada’s top ranked financial market economist. Rubin was one of the first economists in the world to predict triple digit oil prices back in 2005. Considered one of the world’s leading energy experts at the time, his insights have made the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and he has been cited in several high-profile publications including Newsweek and The Economist.
Since resigning from CIBC World Markets in 2008, Rubin has pursued an independent career as an author and public speaker. His first book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, was an international bestseller, translated into eight languages. It was the number one bestselling non-fiction book in Canada and won the National Business Book Award. It was also longlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in the United Kingdom.
Rubin has gone on to write three more bestselling books: The End of Growth, The Carbon Bubble, and The Expendables. In May 2024, he’ll release his fifth book, The New Normal: How Inflation, Sanctions and War will Change Your Lives Forever. In addition, Rubin wrote a widely read column in the Globe and Mail for several years called “Ahead of the Curve”. His recent work has focused on the demise of globalization and the fracturing of the world economy into competing geopolitical blocks.
Congress Send-Off | Thursday, April 11, 3:45pm-5:15pm
Our final Congress session will bring attendees together for a cultivated improv performance from Solo Chicken Productions, a professional performing arts company located on the traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik / Wəlastəkewiyik (Fredericton).
Solo Chicken fosters the creative arts through the creation and development of new works of physical theatre, the facilitation of community collaborations, and by offering accessible arts-based programming. Founded in 2004, the company is built on the philosophy that a healthy arts ecology and society should create space for everyone to create and share their voice. Engaging in the act of cultural production offers communities the opportunity to foster a sense of belonging and to share their voice, all of which lead to, and promote a healthy, connected community.
This will be a fun, joyful way to wrap up Congress 2024 - don't miss it!
Closing Party | Thursday, April 11, 5:30-7:30pm | The Picaroons Roundhouse
Sponsored by Homeward Trust Edmonton 
and The Canadian Real Estate Association 
Join us to wrap up the 2024 Congress and enjoy snacks and networking with your friends and colleagues in a casual atmosphere.
