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Impact Report 2022/2023

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As pandemic restrictions lifted in Toronto, people reconnected in person with family, friends, and colleagues. Torontonians welcomed the idea of new beginnings while remaining masked in public spaces. However, while people embraced the slackening of COVID-19 restrictions, the threat of infection still loomed. Additional challenges that had been exacerbated by the pandemic persisted. Older adults […]

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Impact Report 2021/2022

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2021/2022 Impact Report

Navigating the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic came with many challenges. New challenges including accessing vaccines, coping with increased mental health problems and the lack of much-needed race-based data collection. We also continued to confront existing challenges, including a growing housing crisis, increased unaffordability and historic inequities that put low-income and racialized communities at […]

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Impact Report 2020/21

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Impact Report 2020/21 Wellesley Institute

2020 was the year that changed everything. It changed the way we live, work, and connect. While COVID-19 is a global story of health, housing, and employment, it is foremost a story of inequity. The pandemic shone a spotlight on historic and systemic inequities and challenged us to rethink our priorities. Over the past year, […]

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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.