Save the Date: 52nd Annual MALA AGM

MALA is pleased to announce that our 52nd Annual General Meeting will be held at Fort Whyte Alive this year. Members, colleagues, and the public are invited to join us for a morning of association business, connection, and community. Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026 Location: Fort Whyte Alive Main Entrance: 1961 McCreary Road Secondary Entrance: 2505 McGillivray Boulevard Program Details: Doors Open & Registration: 09:30 am AGM Program Begins Promptly: 10:00 am Lunch will be provided More details, including registration information will be shared soon, and circulated via email. For further information please contact us at mala@mala.net Following the MALA AGM, families are warmly invited to join members in exploring Fort Whyte Alive’s games, and outdoor activities! This is both a great opportunity to explore offerings from Fort Whyte Alive, but to also connect professionally and socially.  We look forward to gathering with our community in this unique and inspiring setting. 

A New Digital Home for MALA – Coming Soon!

We are thrilled to share that MALA will soon be launching a brand new website, designed to better serve our members, partners, and the broader community. This refreshed digital platform reflects MALA’s commitment to operating in alignment with our association counterparts across the country, while ensuring our members and the public are more informed, connected, and supported than ever before. The new website will offer a clean, modern, and intuitive experience, creating a central hub for everything MALA.  Members can look forward to an improved backend user experience, streamlined access to member only content, and clearer pathways to resources, programs, and professional information. The site will also feature a strengthen resource hub, making it easier to find tools, updates, events, and opportunities that support professional growth and engagement.  For the public, the new website will provide greater visibility into the work of landscape architects in Manitoba, highlight our community impact, and offer accessible, up to date information about the profession and the association.  We are incredibly excited about this next chapter and look forward to sharing more details soon. This new digital home is designed with you in mind, and we can’t wait to welcome you in! 

Positive Winnipeg Free Press Story: Manitoba landscape architects push labour mobility at national conference

MARTIN CASHTHE Manitoba Association of Landscape Architectshas enough standing in the professional community tohost the Canadian Society of Landscape Architectsconference this week in Winnipeg, with about 300attendees from across the country.But while the local association (with its 200-plusmembers) adheres to the most rigorous standards foraccreditation across the country, unlike its Ontario,Alberta and British Columbia peers, MALA is not arecognized professional body in the province.Bob Somers, a principal at Scatliff+ Miller+Murray inWinnipeg and outgoing president of the CSLA, said itis nagging issue MALA has been working on for theentirety of its existence.“One of our biggest challenges is labour mobility,” hesaid Friday. “Those other three big provinces have itand so they have reciprocal agreements. We are fallingbehind.”While Somers said MALA membership requirementsare just as thorough as those provinces that havelicensure, the reality is professionals from otherprovinces have no problem working in Manitoba, butthe reverse is not true.For example, Glenn Manning, a principal at HTFCPlanning & Design in Winnipeg, said while his firm isdoing work in Yellowknife and Halifax, it cannot workin B.C., nor can it bid on jobs in the U.S., becauseMALA does not have a name act that allows it to beregistered as a professional association.“We have exactly the same rigorous …