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The Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, delivered a presentation on gaining policy impact on complex urban issues, using Aboriginal housing in Toronto as a case study, for a public policy class at Seneca College on July 4. Policy Impact on Aboriginal Housing in Toronto View more presentations from Wellesley Institute.
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The inequitable health outcomes and the stigma, discrimination and other barriers to access to health faced by LGBTQ communities have been well documented. In celebrating Pride, we can also celebrate the enormous work done to address these inequities: from the pioneering HIV/AIDS movement that transformed not just the face of a crucial disease, but how […]
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International Women’s Day (IWD) has three different themes this year: the international theme is “Connecting Girls and Inspiring Futures”; the UN’s is “Empower Rural Women — End Hunger and Poverty” and the European Parliament‘s is: “Equal pay for work of equal value.” Here at Wellesley Institute we think a lot about the issues raised by […]
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On Saturday, March 3, 2012 the Wellesley Institute’s Director of Housing and Innovation, Michael Shapcott, gave a keynote presentation to urban planning students at a conference at Ryerson University on housing, human rights, health and equality.
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Dr. Camara Jones from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention gave a lively talk to an engaged audience about the trend of racism in health care in the United States. A national conversation on racism in health care is still lacking in the United States, she argues, and certainly in Canada this is also […]
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Sheryl Nestel, Guest Blogger The launch last week of Colour Coded Health Care: The Impact of Race and Racism in Canadians’ Health, was, by all measures a tremendous success. Clearly, that the issues raised by the report are of immense interest to health researchers, health care workers, social scientists and community activists. One of the […]
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Canada’s universal health care system is often understood as a central pillar of a national commitment to social equity and social justice. Such an understanding makes it difficult to raise the issue of racial inequalities within the context of the Canadian health care system. Indeed, far too little research has been conducted in Canada on […]
Continue ReadingColour Coded Health Care: The Impact of Race and Racism on Canadians’ Health
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Canada’s universal health care system is often understood as a central pillar of a national commitment to social equity and social justice. Such an understanding makes it difficult to raise the issue of racial inequalities within the context of the Canadian health care system. Indeed, far too little research has been conducted in Canada on […]
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Sheryl Nestel |
Canada’s universal health care system is often understood as a central pillar of a national commitment to social equity and social justice. Such an understanding makes it difficult to raise the issue of racial inequalities within the context of the Canadian health care system. Indeed, far too little research has been conducted in Canada on […]
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You are invited to attend: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Join us for a conversation on the relationship between race, racism and health with Dr. Camara Jones and Dr. Sheryl Nestel. Dr. Jones, from the National Centres for Disease Control, will bring her knowledge and expertise on the impacts of racism on health and […]
We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.