Homeless people in York Region, north of Toronto, are suffering both physically and mentally. Those are the findings of a new needs assessment of homeless Continue Reading…
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Homeless people in York Region, north of Toronto, are suffering both physically and mentally. Those are the findings of a new needs assessment of homeless Continue Reading…
It's day two at World Urban Forum III in Vancouver. As the Wellesley Institute's representative, I'm meeting colleagues working on housing, health and other Continue Reading…
The contradictions are becoming much more dramatic on day three of the World Urban Forum III in Vancouver. The forum, sponsored by UN Habitat - the United Continue Reading…
Toronto City Hall’s Council Chambers was the site for a public forum on June 26th sponsored by economicinequality.ca that brought together a variety of Continue Reading…
Ontario has a new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing - the third one in less than a year. Rick Bartolucci moves into the housing / municipal cabinet post Continue Reading…
The Harper government will deliver its second federal budget on Monday, March 19, 2007. Canada is one of the richest countries in the world, and the federal Continue Reading…
Mark your calendars and plan to attend the third annual Wellesley Institute – Housing Action Now municipal budget forum. Toronto’s $8 billion-plus municipal Continue Reading…
Good neighbourhoods are healthy neighbourhoods. But it’s not always the formal health system (doctors, drugs and hospitals) that make a neighbourhood truly Continue Reading…
Toronto has the second highest number of high-rise communities in all of North America - but many of the structures are decaying and the neighbourhoods are Continue Reading…
Ontario’s 2008 Budget is long on language, but short where it counts the most: The dollars fall short of the words. Budgets are about choices and, Continue Reading…
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