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 substance use in meaningful, non-stigmatizing and equitable ways. The guide was developed by PWLLE as a guide for community organizations, [...]
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. Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (2018) introduced the Official Poverty Line for Canada and 12 indicators to track progress. There are 4 indicators each, in [...]
Niagara Votes – Municipal Election, Monday October 26, 2026
The next municipal election in Ontario is on Monday, October 26, 2026. The Niagara Votes 2026 website is provided by a partnership between Niagara's 12 local municipalities and the Niagara Region. The partnership aims to streamline communications activities to ensure [...]
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 since the publication of the 2022 to 2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS). It brings together key contributions of the [...]
Niagara Tourism Profile 2026
This profile provides a comprehensive overview of the Niagara region’s tourism sector, including economic contributions, visitor activity, business composition, and workforce insights. The report highlights key indicators which offer a current snapshot of tourism’s role in Niagara’s economy: GDP Employment [...]
Volunteering & Charitable Giving in Canada, 2018 to 2023
In recent years, unprecedented challenges have contributed to pressures on Canada's volunteer and charitable giving sector. Impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased demand for services, inflation, and labour shortages have all had an effect. Data from the 2023 Statistics [...]
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 a research project into the lives and experiences of children who are homeless with their families. This is an underexplored [...]
Niagara District Airport 2025-2045 Master Plan
This Master Plan is a community-informed roadmap. It outlines the path forward in transforming the Niagara District Airport from a general aviation hub into a modern regional gateway that supports both Niagara region residents and the 13 million tourists who [...]
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 region’s population health, service utilization and available resources. The intent is to guide collective planning and investment over the next [...]
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 experiencing homelessness – a 72 per cent increase since July, 2019. Homelessness among those who have relied on OW for [...]
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 researchers from across Canada, who gathered for this November, 2025 summit held in Ottawa. Participants call for recognition of care [...]
Overdue: The Case for Canada’s Public Libraries
This report shows why investment in public libraries is essential to Canada’s post-pandemic recovery, competitiveness and resilience. It makes the case that Canada’s public libraries enable governments to meet their obligations and strengthen the common good. Canada’s libraries are an [...]
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 works together. The report shares how Community Potential supports alignment across sectors by translating data into action, convening partners, and [...]
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 system, and instability within communities are set to rise if immediate action is not taken. It urges the Province of [...]
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 is based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report [...]
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 shifting as population growth, demographic change and sector trends reshape the local workforce. The labour market has cooled from the [...]
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 the region’s workforce. Unemployment declined to 6.9%, down from 2024, employment edged up to 56.3%, while labour force participation softened [...]
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 to help make Niagara’s gender-based violence (GBV) system more understandable, consistent, and easier to navigate. Grounded in local system mapping, [...]
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 provides updated estimates of homelessness and chronic homelessness, community housing waitlists, housing and homelessness funding and expenditures, and encampments. Key [...]
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, Niagara's economy faces continued uncertainty from external trade pressures but is buoyed by population growth, steady non-residential investment, and signs [...]
