Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
It has been a week of high political drama with attendant political uncertainty and instability. It is the kind of week where it’s easy for other issues to get lost. But one that cannot get lost is the city budget that will be introduced today. Whatever the results of the…
Continue ReadingGetting Past Zero: Maintaining City Services And Balancing Toronto’s Budget
…last year to try to better understand the sustainability of our progress. Economic One method to analyze our trajectory is to assess whether Ontarians are living more economically secure lives. We scrutinized our social protection programs and other supports for low-income individuals.[i] Changes over the past year to…
…COVID-19 teams from hospitals, enhancing infection control training, and most recently calling in military aid are some of these measures. Despite this, there is still a need to increase protections for PSWs, who continue to risk their own lives to care for older adults at risk of infection. PSWs…
Continue ReadingSupporting support workers: PSWs need increased protections during COVID-19
Understanding people’s lived experience plays an important role in developing good policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA. When conducting research, we often ask people to participate in interviews, focus groups, and surveys. We ask them to make time in their lives to share often very personal…
Continue ReadingPaying research participants: what’s the right amount?
…on what each party would do for Canada’s middle class, from tax policy to child care policy to infrastructure policy. Lost among this rhetoric, however, has been discussion of increasing income inequality in Canada and what that means to our society and our health. …
Continue ReadingWhat the candidates aren’t talking about – HEIA in the Federal Election
…wings. Across the world, specialists have raised concerns about the negative health impacts of the TPP. The former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, believes that the TPP will cost lives. In Australia, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales reported…
Continue ReadingThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Prioritizes Trade Over Health
…precisely how they will dramatically reduce homelessness for each one of the coming years until the job is done. Third, we called for an end to poverty. The economic damage from COVID-19 has disproportionately fallen on low-income workers, their families, and their communities, as they lost income, jobs, homes, and…
This fact sheet incorporates the voices of multicultural youth in St. James Town and is based on findings from the Voices of Multicultural Youth (Photovoice) research findings.
Continue ReadingOpen Space In The Lives Of Multicultural Youth: A Case Study From St. James Town, Toronto Download PublicationMulticultural Youth Voices: Urban Parks And Open Spaces
Our experiences with employment and in the workplace have a profound effect on all aspects of our lives, including our health.[i] For example, workers in low-wage employment tend to have shorter life expectancies and poorer health outcomes.[ii] Poor working conditions increase the risk of job injury…
Continue ReadingThe Changing Workplaces Review – Response to the Final Report
…will save lives, decrease the toll of future “long COVID,” and protect our economy and liberty. The more resilient we are, the less likely we are to have to lock down. We must not waste another spring and summer on inaction or miss crucial opportunities through inequitable action. There are…
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.
