As Bob Gardner explains in his recent article, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally about Health Reform (in a special edition of Making Waves), it is by Continue Reading…
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Bob Gardner Appointed Special Advisor on Health Equity
The Wellesley Institute's Bob Gardner, Director of Policy and Research, has been appointed Special Advisor on Health Equity to the Toronto Central Local Health Continue Reading…
Government programs penalize Ontario's poor
Social programs in Ontario are supposed to help lower-income people in practical ways - with decent-paying jobs, housing, medical help and other necessities. A Continue Reading…
New research puts the "social" back in housing
The Canadian Policy Research Networks has just released a series of research reports on social housing covering a wide range of issues that aims to put the Continue Reading…
Remembering the victims of the Rupert fire
Every year, as the holiday season approaches, a group of low-income tenants and housing advocates gather to remember the ten people who died in the Rupert Hotel Continue Reading…
Private rental market is failing tenant households
Rents in privately-owned housing are continuing to skyrocket across Canada, according to the latest national rental market survey released today by Canada Continue Reading…
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 Continue Reading…
Homeless for the holidays
With grateful acknowledgement to Clement Clarke Moore, whose poem "Twas the night before Christmas" provided the inspiration for this more contemporary Continue Reading…






