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Thriving Together: A Scoping Review of Interventions to Improve Refugee Social Capital & Health

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People in a circle with their arMS around each other

The purpose of this scoping review is to identify interventions that have improved aspects of refugee social capital resulting in improved health in other cities. Implementing these kinds of interventions locally has promise for improved health and health equity for refugee populations here at home in the GTA.

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How Expo 2025 can improve health in Toronto

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The Rogers Centre and CN tower in Toronto

The discussion I have heard about Expo 2025 encapsulates one of the things that still bemuses me about Toronto. Other cities I have lived in would have been all over this sort of opportunity, doing everything they could to make sure we got the chance to move on this. From an economic perspective the facts […]

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Building social capital in the GTA through “Connected Communities”

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MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release February 23, 2016 Building social capital in the GTA through “Connected Communities” TORONTO – On February 29th, Professor David Morris will be giving a lecture at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute on the Connected Communities program which demonstrates that community-led action and targeted interventions can strengthen local communities. And […]

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We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

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