Wellesley Institute is publishing a series examining how mayoral candidates can show leadership and deliver Toronto the Bold—a city that takes wellness, health, and equity seriously to build a better future for every Torontonian. Our first three in the series examined housing, transit, and mental health. Finally, we’re examining how…
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Wellesley Election Guides 2011: What are you going to ask candidates when they ask you for your vote?
…on policy issues that affect your health and well-being. Here are some guides we’ve prepared to highlight some of the issues we feel need be addressed, and some of the questions we feel are important to ask during this election campaign. Housing and Health: Election 2011 A growing…
Toronto mayoral candidates debate affordable homes, May 11
Mark your calendar and plan to attend the Toronto Mayoral Debate on Affordable Housing, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at 7.30 pm at OISE, 252 Bloor Street West. When the Wellesley Institute published our Blueprint to End Homelessness in Toronto in 2006, we helped spark…
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Healthy Policy For A Healthy Toronto
Our Mayoral Health Equity Impact Assessments came out each week in the final lead up to the Toronto 2014 Mayoral election. With these pieces we hoped to provide insight into the important policy issues that impact the health of Torontonians, and asked the question, What do our Mayoral candidates have…
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Building Health and Equity Into Policy: Policy Orientated Health Equity Impact Assessments
…a casino. These policy-orientated HEIAs have proven useful in several ways: as a solid analytical tool, rapidly assessing issues within this framework can quickly provide evidence-based findings and recommendations to effectively intervene in current policy issues; these Real Cost Of HEIAs have proven to be an important resources for health…
In Memoriam: Bob Gardner, 1948-2014
…Assessment (HEIA) across the province. He worked to ensure that HEIAs were grounded in local experience and responsive to emerging issues at the community level. Bob was a valued member of the Wellesley Institute team and will be greatly missed. An obituary for Bob has been posted. The memorial will…
Access to prescription drugs – HEIA in the Federal Election
…and healthcare cost”. Medical Care 43(6): 521-530. ↩ Angus Reid. (2015) “Prescription drug access and affordability an issue for nearly a quarter of all Canadian households” http://angusreid.org/prescription-drugs-canada/ ↩ “National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975 to 2014,” (Ottawa: Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2014). ↩ Barnes and Anderson 2015. Low Earnings, Unfilled…
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Federal Budget 2014 Fails To Deliver Housing Investments To Meet National Needs
Budgets are about priorities. Canada’s federal budget 2014 has failed to allocate a single new dollar for critical housing investments – despite the overwhelming national need and a growing chorus of experts pointing to the severe impact of the long-term erosion of existing federal housing investments. The latest federal budget…
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Standing room only at Wellesley municipal election housing event
…by community groups to assist voters as they consider the important choices that they will make on election day (November 13). For information on the municipal elections in Toronto, and to find out how to get your ballot, check out the City of Toronto’s Toronto Votes 2006. – Michael Shapcott…
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Voting in Ontario – who is in, who is out?
…on these questions, consider a couple of critical trends in Ontario elections over the past decade (based on numbers from Elections Ontario and Statistics Canada). Over the past 10 general elections in Ontario (from 1971 to 2003), the province’s population has increased 160% from 7.7 million to 12.1 million; and…