…McKeown The Health Impacts of Gambling Expansion in Toronto from Wellesley Institute Presentation by Trent University gambling expert Dr Jim Cosgrave Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada from Wellesley Institute Backgrounder from Wellesley Institute on casinos and your health Toronto casino consultation website Toronto Public Health’s technical report on health…
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Mayor Ford postpones TCHC housing sell-off again, special task force considered
For the second time in less than two weeks, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has postponed debate at Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee on a controversial plan to sell-off 740 affordable homes in 675 Toronto Community Housing Company buildings. He now plans to call a special meeting of the Executive Committee…
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Building a healthier and more equitable Toronto: Two practical guides
Two powerful new reports from Toronto’s Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal set out practical strategies for building a healthier and more equitable Toronto. Toward Healthy Apartment Neighbourhoods: A Healthy Toronto by Design Report focuses on Toronto’s tower neighbourhoods – high-rise and high-density communities scattered throughout the city (and the…
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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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Great news today! Ontario starts to spend federal Aboriginal housing dollars
Great news on the Toronto housing front today! Nancy Martin, President of Miziwe Biik Development Corporation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Jim Watson, Ontario’s housing minister, to administer a $20 million affordable housing program for Aboriginal people living in the Greater Toronto Area. “We hope this will be the…
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Steve Lurie
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…Wellesley Institute, CMHA Toronto, Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness and the Toronto Supportive Housing Network. In 2005 he provided technical assistance to the Senate Committee Report, Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health and Addiction Services in Canada, and in August 2007 was appointed to chair the Service…
Time for independent review of Toronto homeless services
…the adequacy and capacity of the city’s homeless services to meet the current and future needs of people who are homeless. Full Wellesley Institute submission Street Health report on health status of homeless people City of Toronto staff report on Toronto homeless services Social Planning Toronto survey of community shelters…
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Increasing social connectedness, improving health in Toronto
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…in Toronto. At Wellesley Institute, we have started to ask ourselves, what would a connected community’s project look like in Toronto? We believe that increasing social connectedness has the potential to improve health and health equity in our city. Missed David Morris’s talk? You can see the slides from that…
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Toronto – City of Disparities
Toronto is no longer a “city of neighbourhoods” but has become a “city of disparities”. That is a key finding of powerful new research from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Urban and Community Studies. The “City of Disparities” research bulletin, The Three Cities Within Toronto: Income Polarization among Toronto’s…
The Thousandth Tower: Stories from Inside a Toronto Surburban Highrise – May 12 at City Hall
…Inside a Toronto Suburban Highrise on May 12 at Toronto City Hall (details and RSVP below). Equipped with digital cameras and powerful personal points-of-view, six Toronto residents are documenting their own vertical lives against the backdrop of the city’s ambitious Tower Renewal effort. Their photo stories are the first instalment…