Community Potential (formerly Niagara Connects) is a Niagara-based nonprofit that works across sectors (including community services, health, education, business, arts [...]
The Community Potential Impact Report 2025 highlights a year of research, collaboration, and cross-sector leadership aimed at strengthening how Niagara [...]
This report warns that escalating food bank use in Ontario is an indicator that homelessness, strain on the health care [...]
This report on the 2022-2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) tracks the Government of Canada’s contributions toward sustainable development. It [...]
This report highlights trends shaping Niagara’s workforce and what they mean for our community. Trends include: Niagara’s labour market is [...]
Through a suite of free programs, Agriculture Wellness Ontario (AgWO) brings mental health education, counselling services and enhanced community support [...]
Generate Canada connects problem-solvers to tackle the complex challenges at the intersection of environment, economy and society. The vision is [...]
This Workforce Collective summary shows that in 2025: Niagara’s labour market showed some signs of stability, alongside demographic shifts shaping [...]
This 2026 report updates the 2025 document, Municipalities Under Pressure: The Human and Financial Cost of Ontario’s Homelessness Crisis. The 2026 report [...]
This report shows that Niagara’s economy continues to navigate global headwinds while showing signs of local resilience. Looking to 2026, [...]
The region of Niagara is home to nearly half a million residents and welcomes nearly fourteen million visitors each year. [...]
This report predicts that Canadian families will spend $994 more on food in 2026 than in 2025. It also states [...]
The Ontario Living Wage Network calculation shows that the Living Wage for the economic region including Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk and [...]
This research is a follow-up to Dr. Heritz's earlier policy brief on food insecurity in Niagara, focusing, this time, on [...]
The brief’s findings are based on three studies,* including a survey and interviews, that gathered insights and perspectives from diverse [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot recently about the use of generative AI in our daily lives, whether through social media [...]
This report examines the causes and consequences of food inflation in Canada between 2019 and 2025. The report reveals that [...]
The Empathy Engaged project focused on Canadian youth between the ages of 18 and 25. It explored how to create [...]
This report shows that Canada’s arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion in direct GDP to the Canadian economy in [...]
This Food Banks Canada (FBC) report shows that food insecurity in Canada is growing, and becoming increasingly routine. The report [...]
