…a “dose-response” relationship with the heat: The higher the heat, the longer the heat wave and the more episodes of extreme heat – all this combines to lethal effect. After a deadly heat wave in 1988, the Ontario Ministry of Health established maximum heat standards: – humid air of 26…
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Housing
Round one goes to community!
…were secure. After word emerged that local Service Canada officials in London were making a cut of about $375,000 in 2006 homeless funding, the Wellesley Institute spun into high gear. We were able to confirm in-year funding cuts reported in six Ontario communities (including almost $6 million in Toronto), plus…
Day one – national Aboriginal housing summit
…the Aboriginal Housing Management Association. Aboriginal housing providers are full partners, not treated as children who need constant supervision. Ontario was conspicuous by its absence. There has been virtually no positive policy change in that province, even though it is the biggest and richest province in Canada. Day two will…
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Toronto – not so liveable, says Pembina Institute
Toronto is a great city – but is it liveable? Not according to the Pembina Institute, a sustainable energy think tank that released on Monday a detailed review of 27 Ontario communities. It looks at environmental, social, economic and community sustainability. The report is full of detailed analysis based on…
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Medical debt and the U.S. housing collapse
As the U.S. subprime housing market continues its collapse, dragging down not only the broader U.S. economy but also many other economies around the world (including thousands of Ontario autoworkers who have lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs), pause for a moment to consider the many layers…
New research puts the "social" back in housing
…of understanding, and support, for practical and effective housing solutions, including social housing. As government-funded social housing programs were being cut in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a parallel campaign to discredit Canada’s innovative and cost-effective social housing providers (including co-operatives and non-profit housing). In Ontario, the Harris government…
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UPDATE: Housing ministers' meeting back to Wednesday
A senior official in the office of federal housing minister Monte Solberg has now confirmed that the federal, provincial and territorial housing ministers are meeting on Wednesday in Ottawa (not Thursday, as previously reported based on information that came from an Ontario official)….
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Private rental market is failing tenant households
…rate is much lower. During the 1980s and 1990s, the federal government and many provinces (especially Ontario and Alberta) cut affordable housing spending, gutted affordable housing programs and downloaded responsibility for administration of existing affordable housing programs. Politicians hoped that the private rental market would pick up the slack and…
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An urban health new year’s resolution
…is trampling a primary principle of democracy under its feet.” “Will any of the democracies of today stand the test?” Well, how about it: Toronto, Ontario and Canada? Will 2008 be the year when elected officials, working with community and business leaders, finally take the pledge to create healthy and…
Breaking news: FPT housing ministers finally set to meet!
…homelessness programs that are due to expire this year (in annual dollars) are: * $700 million for the affordable housing (a two-year allocation of $1.4 billion from Bill C-48 that was authorized by Parliament in 2005 and allocated in 2006; Ontario has managed to “re-profile” the funding, which means that…
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