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Federal Government Can Take Action On Health Challenges: Housing, Community Innovation And Equity

Richard Blickstead and Michael Shapcott |

The Wellesley Institute 2011 Federal Pre-budget Submission offers two major recommendations to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as it starts consultations for the 2011 federal budget. First, a down payment on a 10-year national housing plan as set out in detail in the Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing in Canada report (the federal government […]

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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.