…When you think about it, budgets are really a blueprint for our health. A good budget is one that provides opportunities for good health for all Ontarians, and this budget moves us in the right direction on postsecondary education and climate change. The budget’s headline commitment to improve access to…
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WI backgrounder: 15 times more money for roads than for homes?
Ontario’s 2008 Budget is long on language, but short where it counts the most: The dollars fall short of the words. Budgets are about choices and, fundamentally, budgets are about dollars. The real choices are revealed in the spending and revenue columns. When it comes to housing, Finance Minister Dwight…
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City budget cuts will widen health gaps in Toronto
By Scott Leon and Laura Anderson It is budget time again in the City of Toronto and Council is deciding what to cut as it closes the $91 million opening budget gap out of the $10 billion city operating budget. It appears that the budget will be reconciled through a…
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Toronto’s 2013 budget: The Impact of Zero on City Services
City staff is recommending that Toronto City Councillors approve an operating budget that increases spending by less than 0.5 percent for the second year in a row. The Police Chief and Council have been debating the feasibility and impact of flatlining the police services budget. Whatever your view on police…
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People care about the kind of city they live in: Toronto City Budget
Thanks to the powerful interventions of many groups and individuals across the city, Toronto has a municipal budget that preserves many critical programs and services that had been targeted for deep cuts by the Ford administration. However, these programs and services should never have been on the chopping block in…
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Jobs and Poverty Reduction: HEIA in the 2014 Mayoral Election
…2014. http://www.incomesecurity.org/FactsheetsonOWandODSPchangesfromBudget2013.htm. ↩ City of Toronto, 2011 National Household Survey: Income and Shelter Costs, September 2013. Accessed Aug 15, 2014. http://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Social%20Development,%20Finance%20&%20Administration/Shared%20Content/Demographics/PDFs/Reports/nhs-backgrounder-income-shelter.pdf. ↩ Toronto Public Health, May 2012 – Nutritious Food Basket Scenarios, 2012. Accessed August 29, 2014. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2012/hl/bgrd/backgroundfile-49920.pdf. ↩ City of Toronto, Developing a City of Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy,…
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Federal budget 2008: Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap looming
Wellesley Institute federal budget scan: Healthy corporate profits – healthy communities??? Minister Flaherty federal budget fails to offer funding; Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap is looming Just five days before federal Finance Minister James Flaherty rose in the House of Commons earlier today (February 26) to deliver the 2008 national…
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Fed budget 2009: Billions in new housing spending, but not for those who need it the most
This backgrounder provides a first glimpse at housing in federal budget 2009. Additional housing analysis, and analysis of other key issues and concerns, will be released in the coming days by the Wellesley Institute. BILLIONS IN NEW HOUSING DOLLARS, BUT WHO REALLY BENEFITS: Federal budget 2009 promises to deliver billions…
First peek at federal budget 2007: Disappointment!
Wellesley Institute backgrounder: A first look at the 2007 federal budget The 2007 federal budget entirely ignores Canada’s nation-wide affordable housing crisis and homelessness disaster, and is light when it comes to other social determinants of health. More detailed analysis will follow in the coming days as experts and analysts…
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
…Fellow at the Wellesley Institute. Two days ago, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty complained that Monday’s federal budget fell short of the dollars that Ontario was seeking. Justice delayed is justice denied, said the Premier of the Harper budget. The same can be said of Premier McGuinty’s own budget, which falls…
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