Experience
Examples of our work
Registered professional planners with experience in comprehensive community and regional planning, offering a host of wholistic services.
Holistic, strengths-based facilitation
Engagement methods vary and include targeted interviews, focus group meetings, surveys, design charettes, community-wide meetings, and open houses.
Waterhen Lake First Nation Strategic Planning
Through inclusive engagement on and off reserve, Prairie Wild and Braid Consulting is supporting Waterhen Lake First Nation in developing a strategic plan rooted in community values and a vision for future generations.City of Regina Heritage Reviews & Assessments
Prairie Wild is working with the City of Regina to evaluate and document the city’s heritage properties.Regina Early Learning Center (RELC) Strategic Planning and Program & Organizational Review
Prairie Wild is supporting Regina Early Learning Centre in advancing its strategic vision through inclusive planning and organizational review grounded in community needs.
Our work across Saskatchewan
Below is a sample listing of Saskatchewan communities and organizations with which we have worked on organizational, community, and regional-based planning initiatives.
Urban Municipalities
- Abbey
- Asquith
- Assiniboia
- Bienfait
- Bulyea
- Buena Vista
- Cabri
- Carievale
- Fort Qu’Appelle
- Gainsborough
- Gravelbourg
- Indian Head
- Kelvington
- Kindersley
- Lashburn
- Leader
- Marshall
- Meota
- Moose Jaw
- Nipawin
- North Battleford
- Northern Village of Île-à-la-Crosse
- Prince Albert
- Redvers
- Regina Beach
- Resort Village of Wakaw Lake
- Saskatoon
- Springside
- St. Walburg
- Stoughton
- Unity
- Wadena
- Waseca
- Watrous
- Wilkie
- Wolseley
- Many other Urban Municipalities as part of District and Intermunicipal processes
Rural Municipalities (RMs)
- Birch Hills
- Blaine Lake
- Invergordon
- Lake Lenore
- Sasman
- St. Louis
- The Gap
- Val Marie
- Many other RMs as part of District and Intermunicipal processes
Indigenous Communities, Tribal Councils and Coalitions
- Black Lake First Nation
- Waterhen Lake First Nation
- Meadow Lake Tribal Council
- Touchwood Agency Tribal Council
- Battlefords Truth and Reconciliation
- Prince Albert Urban Indigenous Coalition
- Yorkton Reconciliation
District and Intermunicipal
- Bear Hills Planning District (3 RMs, 1 Town, 1 Village)
- District of Katepwa
- North West Resource Corridor Planning District (4 RMs, 3 Towns, 2 Villages)
- Northern Administrative District
- Paynton and Cut Knife Planning District (2 RMs, 1 Town, 1 Village)
- Prairie West Planning District (5 RMs, 2 Towns, 3 Villages)
- Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve Planning District (3 RMs, 2 Towns, 4 Villages)
- RM and Town of Kindersley Planning District
- RM of Bon Accord-Town of Ituna-Village of Hubbard Planning District
- RM of Enniskillen and Town of Oxbow Planning District
- RM of Mount Pleasant and Town of Carnduff Planning District
- RM of Round Hill and Village of Rabbit Lake Planning District
- RM of Spiritwood and Village of Leoville Planning District
- Rosetown Hub and Spoke Planning District (5 RMs, 1 Town, 1 Village)
- Twin Rivers Planning District (3 RMs, 5 Towns, 1 Village)
- Village of Marcelin and Town of Blaine Lake Intermunicipal Plan
Organizations, Institutions and Agencies
- Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan
- Battlefords Indian and Métis Friendship Centre
- City of Prince Albert Police Services
- Community Initiatives Fund
- Federation of Indigenous Sovereign Nations
- Gabriel Dumont Institute
- Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools – Oskayak High School
- Heritage Saskatchewan
- Leadership Saskatoon
- Museums Association of Saskatchewan
- New North
- North Central Community Association, City of Regina
- Office of the Treaty Commissioner
- Oxford House Society of Regina
- Prince Albert Indian and Métis Friendship Centre
- Provincial Métis Housing Corporation
- SaskAbilities
- Saskatchewan Economic Development Authority
- Saskatchewan Food Coalition
- Saskatchewan Housing Corporation
- Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies
- Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Parks and Sport
- Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic/SIAST
- Saskatchewan Senior’s Fitness Association
- Saskatoon Health Region
- Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
- SaskCulture
- SaskPower
- Sikh Society of Saskatoon and Area
- United Way of Saskatoon
- University of Saskatchewan
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park
- YWCA Saskatoon
National projects
The following is a selection of projects, communities and organizations that we have worked with across Canada:
- Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC)
- Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA)
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
- Canadian Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (CC UNESCO)
- Canadian Index of Wellbeing
- Conference Board of Canada
- Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario
- Heritage Trust Canada
- Oxfam Canada
- Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve, Manitoba
- Strathcona County, Alberta
- Strathcona County Museum and Archives, Alberta
- Town of Didsbury, Alberta
International Projects
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Through the Canadian Commission for UNESCO our company has been involved in a number of studies and peer-related audits related to Biosphere Reserves in Canada and abroad. Biosphere Reserves are living laboratories devoted to education, promotion and research. Biosphere reserves are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science. As places that seek to reconcile conservation of biological and cultural diversity and economic and social development through partnerships between people and nature, they are ideal to test and demonstrate innovative approaches to sustainable development from local to international scales. Click here for more information.
Trinidad International Outreach, Community Capacity and Community Planning
Port of Spain, Trindidad, Canadian Institute of Planners
In November 2003, Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) launched a three-year Canada International Development Agency (CIDA) funded program aimed at reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in pilot communities in East Port of Spain, Trinidad. The program focused on strengthening local planning processes and the institutions that deliver them. Prairie Wild Consulting Co. volunteered time and resources to provide in-the-community technical expertise from 2004-2006. This work led the development of the City’s first community plan and later to legislative changes to allow municipalities more autonomy over planning. This work was presented at the 2006 United Nations World Urban Forum and CIP conference in 2005. Click here or here for more information.
Local Municipal Governance, East Africa
Working as part of a Federation of Canadian Municipality (FCM) technical team travelled to East Africa to work with an association of local governments in various countries to share a set of best practices in local governance from Canada. Numerous shared learnings occurred through this process.
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