Canada has been under strong scrutiny in recent days as the United Nations looks at how well the federal government is meeting its international obligations. The verdict: Canada is failing to meet the basic standards in international law, and is especially failing women, Aboriginal people and the poor. The international attention will grow even stronger […]
Housing
Count Us In! Inclusion And Homeless Women In Downtown East Toronto
Principal Organization: Ontario Women’s Health Network (OWHN) Partner Organizations: Toronto Christian Resource Centre and Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse Principal Investigator: Tekla Hendrickson The purpose of this project, called Count Us In!, was to investigate how health and social services in Toronto, and in the province of Ontario, can be made more inclusive, and in turn, promote […]
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Positive Spaces, Healthy Places
Principal Organizations: McMaster University, Department of Family Medicine and Fife House Partner Organizations: York University, Ontario AIDS Network, Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy, Bruce House, AIDS Thunder Bay and AIDS Niagara Principal Investigators: Ruthann Tucker and Dale Guenter, PhD Housing has been identified as one of the most important needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS. The […]
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Bill C-13
The federal finance committee is holding public hearings on Bill C-13, which is the legislation that implements much of the recent federal budget. Politically, the decision is pretty much of a foregone conclusion ” it is unlikely that the opposition parties will defeat the government at the moment. But there is considerable room around the […]
Fed budget delivers housing dollars
Wellesley update: Federal budget 2006 and housing Federal Finance Minister James Flaherty delivered the first budget of the Conservative minority government on May 2, 2006. This note examines the housing elements of the 2006 federal budget. Housing is one of the social determinants of health, and a key priority in the work of Wellesley Central […]
LA ruling bars homeless sweeps as TO gets set to count
Toronto will launch its first-ever homeless count and street needs assessment on April 19, just days after a Ninth Circuit Appeals Court ruling in California has barred Los Angeles from sweeping homeless people off its streets. Here in TO, city officials are obsessed with the idea of trying to do the impossible: they want to […]
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Safer, healthier housing for Toronto
Extreme heat kills and smog kills. Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has reported that, in an average year, 120 Torontonians die prematurely from heat, and another 822 die prematurely from smog (based on survey of annual death statistics from 1954 to 2000). Low-income people, the elderly, children and those with poor health are at particular […]
Building Healthier Urban Communities: National Research Conference On Homelessness
Principal Organization: York University Partner Organizations: University of Guelph, Sherbourne Health Centre and the City of Toronto Principal Investigator: Stephen Gaetz This study used two indigenous methods to explore how culture and recreation programs at the Native Canadian Centre affected the well-being of Aboriginal adults living in Toronto. Using sharing circles, researchers asked participants about […]
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New federal housing policy = good jobs, good investment, good homes
Earlier this week, CIBC World Markets one of Canada’s biggest bankers delivered an important assessment of the Canadian jobs market over the past decade. The CIBC verdict: While employment growth has been reasonably strong over the past decade, the changing nature of the economy means that the new jobs haven’t been very good. The report […]
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Pathways To Homelessness Among Caribbean Youth 15-25 In Toronto
Principal Organization: Ryerson University Principal Investigator: Joseph Springer Researchers conducted 34 interviews with Caribbean homeless youth in Toronto. The majority of their respondents were between the ages of 17-24, were unemployed, and had a grade 11 education on average. A common pathway to homelessness was a breakdown of the family or other key relationships, and […]
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