Ontario’s fiscal plan, set out on Wednesday, applies yesterday’s solutions to today’s economic and social woes. Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s decision to suspend a modest but crucial $20 million investment in a new social innovation venture fund sends the wrong signal, according to the Wellesley Institute – a research, policy and social innovation institute […]
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Federal election 2008: Digging into numbers shows some surprises
Most people agree that civic engagement is one important measure of a healthy community. And one key indicator is participation in democratic processes, including federal elections. On that score, a quick review of the numbers from Tuesday’s general election paint a dismal picture and point to a discouraged electorate; as well an electoral structure that […]
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The state of the nation’s housing – federal election 2008
Housing insecurity at record levels One-in-four Canadian households pay 30% or more of their income on housing – that’s three million households, or close to eight million women, men and children. Housing is the biggest expense for low, moderate and middle-income households; housing costs over the past decade grew faster than inflation even though incomes […]
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Working together: Is it working out for non-profit groups?
Collaboration – everyone’s talking about it, but does working together really help non-profit agencies operate more effectively and efficiently; and, even more importantly, does it lead to better services for clients? The Wellesley Institute, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary of advancing urban health, is pleased to announce the release of the latest report in […]
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News flash: Feds extend housing / homeless investments but freeze dollars
Just three days before it triggered an election, the federal government quietly approved a five-year extension of Canada’s national housing and homelessness programs that were due to expire. But it has frozen the dollars despite growing need, according to a backgrounder from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on Friday. “On September 4, 2008, the Government […]
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Toronto City Council Names New Park in Honour of Wellesley Central Hospital and Community Leader – Dennis Magill
Dr. Peter Warrian, Chair Wellesley Institute, the Board of Directors, and Rick Blickstead, CEO, are pleased to announce that Toronto’s newest park located on the former site of the Wellesley Central Hospital has been designated by Toronto City Council as the “Wellesley Magill Park”. It honours the hospital’s men and women who so well served […]
Building on What We Know: Research by Community Health Centres and Community Family Health Teams
Principal Organizations: Association of Ontario Health Centres Partner Organizations: AOHC (members) Principal Investigator(s): Danielle Kurchak A database was developed to collect information on research projects in which AOHC member centres had been involved over the past 5 years. As of June 2008, a total of 41 research project were collected in the databse, which is […]
Health inequities are killing us: WHO commission
“The toxic combination of bad policies, economics and politics is, in large measure, responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible.” That’s the strong conclusion of the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health in their powerful new […]
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Reverse the housing cuts: New federal affordable housing investment required
As Canadian rental and ownership housing markets teeter on the brink of major crisis, the federal government has made further drastic cuts in affordable housing investments in 2008 – and even more cuts are set for the end of the current fiscal year.
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Better Off in a Shelter?
A Year of Homelessness & Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, & Canadian-Born Families A new research report from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Urban and Community Studies / Cities Centre by Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, and J. David Hulchanski offers these troubling findings: Women in Toronto without permanent resident status −