30 Jun 2025 6 min read

Building the First Table

Building the First Table: This Is the Test Case That Will Change Canada

This Is the Test Case That Will Change Canada

From the Table Series: Replacing Senior Housing with Human Infrastructure

Every table needs a chair.

A place where a grandparent sits.
Where a child returns.
Where the story begins again.

This is that chair.
This is the first Table-format site in Canada.

And while its footprint may look local —
its implications are national.

Because when a system this broken meets a model this resolved,
everything shifts.

1. Why Here?

We chose rural Saskatchewan for the first Table for three reasons:

Demographic Opportunity
This is where the aging curve hits first and hardest.
Small towns with rich history, deep roots —
and no current infrastructure to hold their elders in place.

Policy Fit
Saskatchewan has enough population density to test systems
but potentially enough policy flexibility to build models faster.
The provincial population is desperate for revitalisation with real backbone.

Cultural Alignment
Faith traditions, intergenerational values, and family-centred expectations
still hold meaning here.
This is not the place to explain why connection matters.
It’s the place to prove it can be built.

This is not a pilot.
It’s a proof.

2. Building Logic: This Isn’t a Project. It’s a Platform.

We’re not designing a building.
We’re installing a format.

The Table Format (TCF) Site Activation Includes:

100-unit intergenerational care community
Passive House+ thermal envelope
Embedded clinic
Cultural integration space (faith, ceremony, food, music)
Green food production (sprouting + vertical greens + greenhouse)
Emergency-ready systems (power, water, medical, communications)
Multi-path aging continuum: purchase-to-death care

The design logic is not “institutional care.”

It’s:

Grandparent stays in town
Family doesn’t fracture
End-of-life is local
Community becomes circular again

We are not warehousing the vulnerable.
We're rebuilding the village.

3. Timeline and Governance

Phase Zero: Land and Community Alignment

Private land assembly completed
Municipal approvals in motion
Community engagement under way

Phase One: Core Construction (Year 1–2)

Anchor buildings + primary care clinic
First wave of resident-family placement
Staff training pipeline activation (via college and partner orgs)

Phase Two: Full Operational Model (Year 3)

Research integration (Clinical Group + academic licensing)
Data monetisation begins
Table licensing program opens for replication sites

Governance Model:

Plains North Capital (ownership & structure)
Local mission-aligned partnership board
Resident-family advisory council
Clinical oversight by Clinical Group
Regulatory compliance embedded from day one

This isn’t just community design.
It’s governance by design — and it scales.

4. Integration Is the Advantage

Most LTC sites are silos:

Health is separate from housing
Food is trucked in
Faith is off-site
Death is elsewhere
Family is optional

The Table collapses the gap:

Housing and health: one contract
Care and community: one footprint
Death and dignity: one plan
Family and governance: one voice
Climate and survivability: one home

This is care without fragmentation.
Connection without delay.
Resilience without rhetoric.

This Is the First. Not the Only.

This Table we’re building in Saskatchewan isn’t a one-off.

It’s the archetype.

The pattern for:

Faith communities that want to stay together
Towns losing population to facility placement in the cities
First Nations communities demanding sovereign care systems
Urban neighbourhoods seeking cultural-specific eldercare
Climate-threatened zones needing survivability for the vulnerable

What happens here will be studied.
Measured.
Mapped.
And then... repeated.

Because this model isn’t exclusive.
It’s exportable.

And the need isn’t rare.
It’s universal.

The Table isn’t just a philosophy.
It’s now a physical place.

The first Table is being built.
The first chair placed.
In a town that still remembers the power of family.
On land that was never supposed to exile its elders.
With partners who know care isn’t scalable unless it’s sacred.

This is not a project.
It’s the prototype of a new country.

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The first Table-format site is being built.
Not a pilot. A prototype for a new country.

This is where Canada learns to care again.

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