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Laura Anderson, Seong-gee Um, Malaika Hill, Jessica Carriere

Expo 2025: Health and Health Equity Impact Assessment

Expo 2025 Canada

Expo 2025 presents Toronto with an opportunity to move forward initiatives that leverage the City’s diverse population and neighbourhoods and drive the City forward socially and economically. In addition to leaving a site ready for further development, Expo 2025 could deliver more affordable housing, a stronger transportation network, and more green space as part of its legacy. There is potential for job creation, some of which would stay in Toronto beyond 2025.  In order to best make use of the substantial investments that will be made in Toronto as an Expo host, the Coordinating Committee will need to carefully consider the potential health and health equity impacts of any developments associated with hosting Expo 2025.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

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.