The Policy Network is a London-based European progressive think tank that does innovative research and thinking on pressing issues of social and economic inequality, social change and public policy reform. It has released a new collection of “essays by progressive academics and politicians in Europe on the challenge of immigration and social integration in Western […]
Archives for April 2007
CHSRF Research Tools
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has long published useful guides, reports and other resources on knowledge exchange and how to effectively get research to decision-makers. The have developed a valuable new database of tools to help organizations create, share and use research. They collect strategies, stories, frameworks, evaluation plans and other literature, categorized into […]
Greater Toronto Urban Observatory
The Greater Toronto Urban Observatory monitors and evaluates urban issues. Bookmark this site and visit regularly as it has great info on Toronto and the surrounding area. The GTUO is part of the global network of urban observatories under the umbrella of the United Nation’s Centre for Human Settlements. – Michael Shapcott
Debating housing and homelessness in LA
The Los Angeles Times recently devoted five days to a debate on housing and homelessness between two policy experts. Prof. Peter Dreier is recognized as one of the leading housing experts in the world. His detailed analysis of the LA situation has a lot of practical observations about housing and homelessness issues in other metropolitan […]
Plan to end homelessness in LA
Los Angeles is often called the homeless capital of the United States. With 90,000 or more people on the streets and in shelters, the homelessness crisis there has been growing worse in recent years. A blue-ribbon panel of homeless experts, advocates, academics, service providers and politicians recently produced a comprehensive ten-year strategic plan called Bring […]
Ontario's housing allowance plan violates federal operating principles
Ontario’s $185 million housing allowance plan, announced in the 2007 provincial budget on March 22 and funded entirely with federal affordable housing trust fund dollars, violates the operating principles tabled by federal finance minister Jim Flaherty in the House of Commons in May of 2006. The federal housing dollars were authorized by Parliament in Bill […]
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Knowledge Exchange Planning Guide
The Institute for Work and Health, working with John Lavis, a leading expert on knowledge exchange for health research, have developed a practical and clear planning guide, designed to be used with facilitated workshops. It is organized around five key principles, which can be posed as questions: what is the message? who is the intended […]