Indigenous Visions of Making Home in Niagara
This policy brief aims to assist the Indigenous community in informing Niagara and its decision-makers of their visions for housing [...]
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05, 2026
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05, 2026
Working with people with lived and living experience: A guide for meaningful engagement
This guide highlights practical approaches and recommendations for organizations to engage with people with lived and living experiences (PWLLE) of [...]
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05, 2026
Canada’s Official Poverty Dashboard of Indicators: Trends, April 2026
This dashboard summarizes progress on poverty reduction for Canadians and their households, from 2020 to 2024. In 2024, the poverty [...]
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04, 2026
2025 Progress Report on Canada’s 2022 to 2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy
This 2025 Progress Report reflects the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development, tracking the Government of Canada’s progress [...]
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04, 2026
Children’s Experiences of Homelessness in Shelter Living
In 2022, the YWCA Niagara Region partnered with Drs Rebecca Raby and Christine Tardif-Williams of Brock University to embark on [...]
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03, 2026
United Way Niagara Merging into the new United Way Golden Horseshoe
United Way Niagara is joining forces with Brant United Way, United Way Haldimand Norfolk and United Way Halton and Hamilton [...]
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03, 2026
Planning for the Future: A Data-Driven Health System in Niagara
This report by the Niagara Ontario Health Team - Équipe Santé Ontario Niagara (NOHT-ÉSON) establishes a baseline understanding of the [...]
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03, 2026
Designed to Fail: How Ontario’s Income Security Policies Create and Perpetuate Homelessness
As of July, 2025, more than 30,000 people receiving Ontario Works (OW) or Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits were [...]
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03, 2026
Canadian Caregiving Summit 2025 Act on Care Report
Making caregiving a national priority is the shared purpose of more than 500 caregivers, care providers, systems leaders, policymakers, and [...]
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02, 2026
Turning Community Knowledge into Action: Community Potential’s 2025 Impact
Community Potential (formerly Niagara Connects) is a Niagara-based nonprofit that works across sectors (including community services, health, education, business, arts [...]
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02, 2026
Community Potential Impact Report 2025 — Strengthening Systems, Supporting Niagara
The Community Potential Impact Report 2025 highlights a year of research, collaboration, and cross-sector leadership aimed at strengthening how Niagara [...]
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02, 2026
Hunger Report 2025 – Feed Ontario
This report warns that escalating food bank use in Ontario is an indicator that homelessness, strain on the health care [...]
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02, 2026
Achieving A Sustainable Future 2025 Progress Report
This report on the 2022-2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) tracks the Government of Canada’s contributions toward sustainable development. It [...]
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02, 2026
2025-26 Annual Local Labour Market Report
This report highlights trends shaping Niagara’s workforce and what they mean for our community. Trends include: Niagara’s labour market is [...]
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01, 2026
Generate Canada
Generate Canada connects problem-solvers to tackle the complex challenges at the intersection of environment, economy and society. The vision is [...]
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01, 2026
Niagara Labour Market Insights December 2025
This Workforce Collective summary shows that in 2025: Niagara’s labour market showed some signs of stability, alongside demographic shifts shaping [...]
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01, 2026
Coalition to End Violence Against Women – Community Resource Tools
The following resources were developed through the Navigating the System: A Gender-Based Violence Perspective project as part of a toolkit [...]
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01, 2026
Municipalities Under Pressure One Year Later: An Update on the Cost of Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis
This 2026 report updates the 2025 document, Municipalities Under Pressure: The Human and Financial Cost of Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis. The 2026 report [...]
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01, 2026
Niagara Region Economic Update November 5, 2025
This report shows that Niagara’s economy continues to navigate global headwinds while showing signs of local resilience. Looking to 2026, [...]
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11, 2025
2025 Living Wage Calculation for Niagara
The Ontario Living Wage Network calculation shows that the Living Wage for the economic region including Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk and [...]
