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Poverty Is Making Us Sick Media Advisory

Authors: Ernie Lightman Ph.D, Andrew Mitchell, MA and  Beth Wilson, MES

Released: December, 2008

Summary: This is the conclusion of powerful new tipping-point research released today by the Wellesley Institute and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto.

Poverty is making Canadians sick, robbing hundreds of thousands of their health and leading to widespread preventable illness and creating huge costs for the health care system.  For the first time, the study uses Canadian Community Health Survey and income files to paint the most comprehensive picture to date of our nation’s health.

Poverty Is Making Us Sick Media Advisory

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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.