Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
Wellesley Institute’s 2025 Federal Election series laid out our recommendations for what federal parties can do to advance health equity in three key areas: thriving – policies that will help ensure everyone has what they need to live a healthy life, live in healthy housing and afford healthy food. We have already examined where parties stand on […]
Continue Reading2025 Federal Election series: Analysis of party platforms on housing
Wellesley Institute’s 2025 Federal Election series laid out our recommendations for what federal parties can do to advance health equity in three key areas: thriving – policies that will help ensure everyone has what they need to live a healthy life, live in healthy housing and afford healthy food. We have already examined where parties stand on […]
Continue Reading2025 Federal Election series: Analysis of party platforms on food affordability
Wellesley Institute’s 2025 Federal Election series laid out our recommendations for what federal parties can do to advance health equity in three key areas: thriving – policies that will help ensure everyone has what they need to live a healthy life, live in healthy housing and afford healthy food. Below, we examine the parties’ commitments on thriving […]
Continue Reading2025 Federal Election series: Analysis of party platforms on thriving
This has been a season of elections for people in the Greater Toronto Area, with both a provincial election campaign and now a federal campaign, all under the shadow of an unpredictable, threatening American neighbour. The party whose leader is able to gain the confidence of the House of Commons to govern will significantly shape […]
Continue Reading2025 Federal Election series: Affording healthy food
This has been a season of elections for people in the Greater Toronto Area, with both a provincial election campaign and now a federal campaign, all under the shadow of an unpredictable, threatening American neighbour. The party whose leader is able to gain the confidence of the House of Commons to govern will significantly shape […]
Continue Reading2025 Federal Election series: Healthy housing for all
This has been a season of elections for people in the Greater Toronto Area, with both a provincial election campaign and now a federal campaign, all under the shadow of an unpredictable, threatening American neighbour. The party whose leader is able to gain the confidence of the House of Commons to govern will significantly shape […]
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.