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Health Equity Lessons From The United States

Matt Kanter |

Canadians generally think of the United States as a place with severe and worsening health disparities–especially since 45.7 million Americans continue to lack health insurance. It may come as a shock to most Canadians that they can learn anything about health equity from their neighbours to the south. But Congress is currently debating health care reforms […]

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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.