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One size user fees don’t fit all
April 4, 2012 by
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…
Looking beyond cuts to solve city budget woes
April 9, 2012 by
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 Continue Reading…
Breaking down the barriers to employment
April 9, 2012 by
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…
New TCHC task force gets organized!
April 16, 2012 by
The new task force on the future of Toronto Community Housing Company held its organizational meeting Monday and adopted an ambitious agenda for the next four Continue Reading…
New Certificate in Community Engagement, Leadership, and Development
April 23, 2012 by
Learn to better engage community members in the planning, problem-solving, and decision-making processes that improve the social, political, and cultural Continue Reading…
Migrant workers, two-tiered employment, and health inequities
May 2, 2012 by
The federal government has introduced changes to rules governing temporary foreign workers, speeding up the process, and allowing these workers to be paid Continue Reading…
Wilkinson says that equality is still better for everyone, and it’s time to act
May 4, 2012 by
Many of us today at the Wellesley Institute were fortunate to catch Richard Wilkinson’s lecture, courtesy of MASS LBP and the Dalla Lana School of Public Continue Reading…
Housing + income + food = health: Wellesley Institute submission to UN food expert
May 9, 2012 by
Housing, income, food and health are all strongly linked. It is important to understand the interconnections, the vicious and virtuous cycles that feed each Continue Reading…
Ontario’s community legal clinics: Agents for building stronger, healthier communities
May 11, 2012 by
Ontario’s community legal clinics have a long and successful history of effective work with individual clients and on broader law reform / advocacy issues Continue Reading…
