With a vote of 141 (yea) and 132 (nay), draft legislation to create a national housing plan for Canada moved another step forward in the Commons last night. The national housing plan bill won the support of NDP, Liberal and Bloc MPs at yesterday’s vote, but was opposed by the federal housing minister, Diane Finley, and […]
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More than three million Canadians forced to live in poverty: 2010 child and family poverty report card
About one-in-ten Canadians – more than three million people – are living in poverty, and that is having a devastating impact on their health. Those are some of the findings of the 2010 report card on child and family poverty in Canada, released earlier today. Deep and persistent poverty is one factor that is driving […]
Ontario Child and Family Poverty 2010 report card: Poverty reduction key to economic recovery
About 412,000 children and youth in Ontario were living in poverty in 2008 – even before the recession hit. The child poverty rate in 2008 (the latest year for which official statistics are available) was up from 2007. In 2010, more than 149,000 Ontario children were forced to rely on foodbanks – up from 141,000 […]
Research With Policy Impact: CIHR Panel
Wellesley has done many workshops over the years on how to maximize the policy impact of research. This was always an important theme of our community-based research capacity building workshops and we have customized many workshops for particular audiences. I was on a panel for the CIHR Centre for REACH on HIV/AIDS and highlighted seven key messages […]
All eyes on Parliament as MPs vote on C-304 (national housing plan) Wednesday
All eyes are on Parliament on Wednesday as Members of Parliament vote on C-304, a private member’s bill from MP Libby Davies that would require the federal government to consult widely and create a national affordable housing plan within six months. This is the closest Canada has come to a truly comprehensive national affordable housing […]
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Federal government needs to take action on poverty, housing: New all-party Commons report
“The federal government has an important role to play in reducing poverty in Canada,” according to the Commons HUMA committee in an important new report Federal Poverty Reduction Plan: Working in Partnership Towards Reducing Poverty in Canada. The HUMA (Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities) […]
Hidden emergency: Poor housing leading to poor health for many Canadians
Precarious housing is a ‘hidden emergency’ that is affecting the health of a large number of Canadians, and the population health of the entire nation, according to a powerful new research report from the Health and Housing in Transition Study (HHiT). “The number of people experiencing the devastating health outcomes associated with inadequate housing could be staggering […]
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Commons wraps third reading debate on national housing bill as NDP, Lib, Bloc all back C-304
Good news: Another step forward in the campaign to create a comprehensive affordable housing plan for Canada. The House of Commons has wrapped up debate on the third, and final, reading of Bill C-304 – a private member’s bill from MP Libby Davies that would require the federal government to create a comprehensive national housing […]
Building Equity Into Health Reform: Innovative Primary Care
Two success conditions for equitable reform of the healthcare system are to increase access to high-quality primary care, especially for the most health disadvantaged populations, and to build on the potential of the many effective front-line and community-based innovations addressing the impact of health disparities across the country. A very interesting recent report from the […]
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Canada inching closer to national housing plan as Commons' vote looms
Canada is inching closer to a long overdue and much-needed national affordable housing plan. Bill C-304, draft legislation to create a national plan that was proposed by Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, is back for the second round of debate on third reading on Nov. 18. Then the Commons is scheduled to vote on […]
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