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Breaking down the barriers to employment

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 Continue Reading…

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 Continue Reading…

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 Continue Reading…

Ontario Budget 2012 continues erosion of affordable housing investments

Ontario Budget 2012 continues the erosion of affordable housing investments at a time when the housing needs of households who are precariously housed remain Continue Reading…

Ontario Budget 2012: Duncan chooses path that hurts the poorest Ontarians

In the lead up to the Ontario budget, the Wellesley Institute asked whether Minister Duncan would choose a road of fiscal prudence, or whether he would adopt Continue Reading…

Ontario Budget 2012 – What to look for: Affordable housing

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Although a good, affordable home is one of the most important social determinants of health and investing in housing not only takes pressure off of the health Continue Reading…

What to look for in the Ontario 2012 budget: Improving housing affordability

Although a good, affordable home is one of the most important social determinants of health and investing in housing not only takes pressure off of the health Continue Reading…

Review of Social Assistance in Ontario: Health & Health Equity Overview

In 2010, the province of Ontario established the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario, led by Commissioners Francis Lankin and Munir A. Continue Reading…

Building a health-enabling social assistance system: Our latest submission to the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance

Over the last year, the Wellesley Institute has been working with community and health sector partners to provide expert advice on how to build a Continue Reading…

Response to the Social Assistance Review discussion paper

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The Response to the Social Assistance Review Discussion Paper is the second formal submission that the Wellesley Institute, in partnership with a number of Continue Reading…