This morning’s Toronto Star includes a front page story about how Ontario’s employment training programs shut out half of the province’s unemployed. The problem is that strict eligibility criteria mean that Employment Ontario’s job training supports are only available to people who are receiving employment insurance benefits, and this excludes a large number of unemployed […]
Archives for April 2012
Looking beyond cuts to solve city budget woes
Conversations about balancing city budgets often focus only on cutbacks to services or changes in tax rates, but thriving healthy cities need to have more than two solutions. Another solution is to increase intensification. Reading an interesting piece on the positive fiscal impacts of intensification is a nice change. This article by Emily Badger in […]
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New national movement to end homelessness launched today
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness was officially launched today. The alliance aims to work with partners across the country, and at the national level, to create a national movement to prevent and end homelessness across Canada. At the heart of the work is “A Plan not a Dream” – which sets out a strategy […]
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Wellesley Urban Health Model: CHNET Presentation December 2011
Wellesley Urban Health Model: CHNET Webinar December 2011 View more PowerPoint from Wellesley Institute
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An Introduction to System Dynamics
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One size user fees don’t fit all
Today’s edition of the Globe and Mail reports about community anger about new user fees for the use of Toronto’s municipal playing fields. The health promoting benefits of staying fit and active are well-established, but one-size-fits-all user fees can mean that people with low incomes are unable to access community recreation facilities, which can lead […]
Seven priorities for the new TCHC Special Working Group, from engaging tenants to enlisting experts
It has members and a mandate, and now the new Special Working Group on the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), chaired by Councillor Ana Bailão, has about six months to chart a financially sustainable future for the city’s biggest landlord. The Special Working Group was created after Toronto City Council voted to reject a scheme […]
Advancing Health, Health Equity and Opportunities for Children in Tough Times
Recently, the Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner and Steve Barnes made a presentation about advancing health, health equity, and opportunities for children in tough times to staff from the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth. Bob spoke about the pervasive and damaging health inequities that are rooted in underlying social determinants of health […]
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Wellesley Urban Health Model
The Wellesley Urban Health Model simulates alternative scenarios to help explain the impact of interventions on poor health outcomes such as chronic disease rates, disability rates and mortality rates. The model also gives insight into how much and how quickly interventions can reduce mortality and morbidity. The Wellesley Institute’s goal is to provide a tool […]
PhDs for Fair Taxation? Sign Me Up
A group of leading community medicine and public health doctors have founded Doctors for Fair Taxation. They argue that physicians have become increasingly concerned about growing income inequality after seeing the consequences of poor and inequitable health daily in their practices. The response has been quick: over 200 doctors have already signed their petition calling […]