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Sheila Block

A Vote For Health: Toronto Budget Vote Quickly Approaching

The Toronto City Budget vote is approaching fast. January 15th is just around the corner and we can all envision a better and healthier Toronto. But let’s hope our city councillors can too. A health city is one where people can access recreation, where maintaining supports for the homeless and the precariously housed is a priority, where student nutrition and investment in community organizations remain at the top of the list.

Read our work on the 2013 Toronto Budget.

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Sheila Block

Sheila Block

Sheila Block was Director, Economic Analysis at the Wellesley Institute 2010-2015. Sheila is an economist whose research interests include labour markets and public finance. Sheila joined Wellesley Institute in 2010 after more than 15 years of advocacy and research for organizations including the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. She has also worked both as a political advisor and public servant in the Ontario government.

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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.