Patrick Oystryk

Background

About Patrick Oystryk

I am a community planner passionate about addressing our generation's biggest challenges: Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the climate crisis, and housing affordability. My practice centres on responsible and sustainable land use planning informed by deep and meaningful community engagement that elevates the voices of seldom heard groups. These processes have the power to create lasting change and break impasses towards a more harmonious relationship with the lands we inhabit and the people with whom we share them. As a Franco-Manitoban from Winnipeg, born at the powerful confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers on Treaty 1 lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Ojibway, Dakota, and Métis peoples, I understand the strong link between culture and geography, and I aspire to reveal and strengthen those links in all my planning projects.