Toronto's fiscal crisis has helped to sharpen attention on both the revenue and spending sides of the city's multi-billion dollar budget. Some say that the Continue Reading…
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Toronto's fiscal crisis has helped to sharpen attention on both the revenue and spending sides of the city's multi-billion dollar budget. Some say that the Continue Reading…
Homelessness - it's a problem just in the inner city, right?Wrong!And to prove it, the York Region Alliance to End Homelessness has just re-launched its web Continue Reading…
While the fundamental social determinants of health will only be fully addressed with major shifts in government policy and action, there are many innovative Continue Reading…
The new UK government of Gordon Brown announced on Monday that it will invest £8 billion (that's more than $17 billion in Canadian dollars) over the next three Continue Reading…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2004 plan to cut homelessness in the Big Apple by two-thirds produced an almost immediate decline in the number of Continue Reading…
Federal housing and homelessness minister Monte Solberg is keen to portray his government as generous and compassionate when it comes to those who are poorly Continue Reading…
I am making a speech on a Blueprint for Health Equity at the Canadian Federation of Nurses Union conference in Moncton in August. I will highlight pervasive Continue Reading…
Toronto and the surrouding Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are "a powerful economic locomotive which produces nearly one-fifth of the entire nation's GDP", along Continue Reading…
One of the most important challenges facing the progressive health community is how to try to frame the debate in ways that will win public support and shift Continue Reading…
Campaign 2000, the group working to end child poverty, released a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for Ontario at Queen's Park today. The plan has four key Continue Reading…
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