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Low Earnings, Unfilled Prescriptions

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  The assumption that working age Canadians receive health benefits through their employers is based on outdated beliefs about the labour market. Our study Low Wages, No Benefits showed that one-third of working Ontarians do not have employer-provided health benefits. Among our findings: • One-third of working Canadians do not receive employer-provided health benefits • There are inequities in access to […]

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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.