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Healthy Policy for a Healthy Toronto: 2014 Mayoral Election

Our civic leaders play important roles in our lives. The decisions they make impact where we live, play and work, how we move around the city, and the programs that support us and bring us together. The connectedness of our communities is part of our civic infrastructure and can have important impacts on our health. Cities and municipal policy matter to our health. As Toronto prepares for the 2014 municipal election, Wellesley Institute is looking carefully at mayoral candidates’ ideas to see if good health for all Torontonians is part of their platforms. Our series looks at the platforms of the three major mayoral contenders: Olivia Chow, Doug Ford, and John Tory. Four major policy areas will be addressed over four weeks: housing and homelessness, green spaces and active transportation, jobs and income, and transit. In the fifth week, we will discuss health-enhancing ideas that the candidates aren’t talking about, and why these ideas are important for a healthy Toronto. It is time to build health and health equity into the vision for our city.

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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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