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The Health Impacts of Contracting Out

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Outsourcing is widespread, both in Canada and internationally. But public discussion about the impacts of contracting out have focused on the health implications for others, usually the general public, rather than for the workers themselves. Contracting out jobs is a cost-cutting strategy used by many governments. However, important questions have surfaced about the immediate and longer-term […]

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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.