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A letter for a leader

Dear Friends, Regardless of your political stripe, this is a time for all of us to pray to whichever entity in which we believe for the safe recovery of Jack Continue Reading…

The Sunshine list: When leaders fail in their “moments of truth”

During election campaigns the usual rhetoric gets even more amplified. We are told in no uncertain terms that the deficit fighting machine needs our support and Continue Reading…

In Memoriam, Ronald Robertson

This week, the Wellesley Institute and the many and varied communities it serves here in the GTA and across Canada, said goodbye to a champion. Ronald Continue Reading…

Canada Day marks the start of Skoll World Forum

The Wellesley Institute is pleased to join with innovators from around the world at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, an annual invitation-only Continue Reading…

WI CEO on social finance / social infrastructure study tour to UK

Rick Blickstead, the CEO of the Wellesley Institute, is on a study tour to Britain that includes community, business and government innovators. At the WI, Continue Reading…

Ontario budget 2009: Battered social infrastructure gets little relief

Ontario’s critically important social infrastructure is taking a battering in the current recession, but the 2009 provincial budget offers almost no relief. Continue Reading…

Chief Medical Officer of Health Annual Report to the Legislative Assembly

The first annual report of the Chief Medical Officer of Health to the Legislative Assembly has just been released.  Dr. Sheela Basrur provides a concise Continue Reading…

Politics, Society and Health

Those working to address health inequality and the social determinants of health will be interested in two new collections from the UK Politics of Health Continue Reading…