Like many people I came to Canada because of its international reputation for fairness. I came to Toronto from London, UK, because Toronto is more multicultural and has a reputation as a place where people from ethnically diverse groups can live side by side and flourish. Toronto is a social project that the world needs […]
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Event Recap: Reducing the Impacts of Racism on Health
Building on the momentum of the We Are Cities campaign and Wellesley Institute CEO Kwame McKenzie’s work on the intersection of race and health, we saw an opportunity to connect some dots by hosting a roundtable on the theme of reducing the impacts of racism on health in cities. Racism is toxic. #Racism shortens your life […]
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Nine Research Grants Awarded to Protect and Enhance Health in Toronto and Beyond
The first healthier cities and communities grants were awarded to nine research teams comprised of community, public sector and university collaborators to address a range of social determinants of health to improve the health of Torontonians and beyond. “More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and as more people migrate to […]
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