…the three weeks since its launch, the Blueprint has been gathering momentum. David Miller, who was re-elected as Toronto’s Mayor on Monday, publicly endorsed the Blueprint in the final week of the election campaign. Support for the plan is growing across the city. Check out the Blueprint here. – Michael…
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Standing room only at Wellesley municipal election housing event
…by community groups to assist voters as they consider the important choices that they will make on election day (November 13). For information on the municipal elections in Toronto, and to find out how to get your ballot, check out the City of Toronto’s Toronto Votes 2006. – Michael Shapcott…
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Framework For The Blueprint To End Homelessness In Toronto
…pages of information including: current data on housing and homelessness in Toronto; a review of Toronto’s housing history going back to 1918; and, a ward-by-ward review of housing, homelessness and poverty. To download the full report view The Blueprint To End Homelessness In Toronto. For more information contact Michael Shapcott….
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The Blueprint To End Homelessness In Toronto
…detailed policy framework offer more than 100 pages of information including: current data on housing and homelessness in Toronto; a review of Toronto’s housing history going back to 1918; and, a ward-by-ward review of housing, homelessness and poverty. Download the full Framework document here. For more information contact Michael Shapcott….
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Seeds, Soil, And Stores: A Pilot Study Of Community Gardening In Southeast Toronto
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Principal Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Geography Partner Organization: Ryerson University, School of Nutrition Principal Investigator: Sarah Wakefield Researchers set out to gather systematic data on the benefits and challenges of community gardens in Southeast Toronto. Researchers held 10 focus groups, and interviewed garden coordinators and community members. The…
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That's hot!!!!!!
Toronto, and many other communities, are suffering extreme – and record-breaking – heat. This is not merely unpleasant, it is deadly. Extreme heat affects the most vulnerable (elderly, young, people with compromised health, people taking certain medications) leading to increased illness and early death, but everyone is affected. There is…
2007 CCPH Conference Planning Has Begun
…Guta, Masters in Social Work Student, University of Toronto, Toronto ON Canada Erika Khandor, Street Health, Toronto, ON Canada Rohinee Lal, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC Canada Ann Macaulay, McGill University, Montreal QC Canada Dennis Magill, University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, Toronto ON Canada Ryan Meili, University of Saskatoon…
Bringing it home (Day 4 of WUFIII)
…cut about $1.8 billion from Canada’s national housing budget in the decade following his election in 1984. Then, in 1993, he cancelled entirely spending on new affordable housing. The Liberals under Jean Chretien and Paul Martin promised to restore national housing funding, but they did just the opposite when they…
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…
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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…