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Continue ReadingHealth Equity Now: A Working Paper on the Best First Steps for Ontario
Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
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In my blog post from last week, I mentioned this Globe and Mail article by André Picard who asked the question: “why is tackling poverty not a health priority?” There is now evidence that poverty reduction strategies actually do improve the health of low-income populations and reduce health disparities. In this original research on Disparities […]
Continue ReadingAn Anti-poverty Strategy that Improves Health Outcomes
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The official communiqué from the federal provincial and territorial housing ministers is little more than a collective pat on the back. The Ministers met Friday, December 4, in Gatineau for their first national housing summit since 2005. With a record 1.5 million Canadian households in core housing need, and another two million living in substandard […]
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The Ontario government is set to appoint a high-powered panel later today to provide a detailed roadmap for welfare reform in Ontario, according to a report in The Toronto Star. The panel includes Colette Murphy of the Metcalf Foundation, a member of the Wellesley Institute board of directors; plus Gail Nyberg and Michael Oliphant of […]
Continue ReadingOntario set to announce high-powered panel to produce welfare roadmap
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There are wide variations in life expectancy in Canada across regions and socio-economic status. But life expectancy doesn’t tell the whole story. Higher income Canadians live longer and healthier lives than those in lower income brackets. In Thursday’s Globe and Mail, columnist André Picard explains these findings in his analysis of a recently released Statistics […]
Continue ReadingLife expectancy doesn’t tell the whole story
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Many millions of people around the world live in housing that threatens their lives and their health – including an estimated 1.5 million households in “core housing need” across Canada. Adequate housing has been a key part of
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On Tuesday, November 17, the Wellesley Institute’s signature research project, the St James Town Initiative, presented our latest in unique community based research methodology to a crowd of over 100 people at Ryerson University.
Continue ReadingCommunity Voices: Research Release and Photo Exposition
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Poverty is cutting almost eight years off the average life expectancy of Canadian men, and almost five years from women. Only half of the poorest men in Canada can expect to life until 75, while three-quarters of the richest men will reach that age. These are among the grim findings in new research from Statistics […]
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Reality check: Ontario is indeed matching the 2009 federal affordable housing investments, as housing minister Jim Watson notes in a story in today’s Toronto Star (“Nearly homeless struggle to hang on“), but the province has also been steadily cutting spending at the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing since 2005. Finance minister Dwight Duncan, […]
Continue ReadingReality check: Ontario gives housing dollars with one hand, takes away with other
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A dynamic afternoon of testimony today from a series of expert witnesses (including the Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott, has helped moved Bill C-304 – the draft legislation that sets out a process to create a new national affordable housing strategy – a step closer to reality.
Continue ReadingPowerful day on Parliament Hill: National housing plan inches closer to reality
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