Niagara Region Community Safety and Well Being Plan
As of Jan. 1, 2019, the Ontario Police Services Act requires municipalities in the province to develop and adopt community safety and well-being plans working in partnership with a multi-sectoral advisory committee. Niagara’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan was adopted [...]
Niagara Region Homelessness Services Community Newsletter, July, 2021
This Community Newsletter is provided by Niagara Region Homelessness Services. It includes updates on what has been happening in Niagara’s homelessness serving system. The newsletter has been expanded to include more information on initiatives to combat homelessness in Niagara. The [...]
Canada in a Changing Climate: Advancing Our Knowledge for Action
This report is the national assessment of how and why Canada’s climate is changing; the impacts of these changes on our communities, environment and economy; and how we are adapting. The report, available at changingclimate.ca demonstrates that: Climate change affects [...]
Towards a Greater Golden Horseshoe Transportation Plan – Discussion Paper to Improve the Transportation Vision for Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe region
The Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) is a large urban region centred around Toronto, encompassing Waterloo, Brant and Haldimand in the west, Niagara to the south, Simcoe in the north, and Peterborough and Northumberland in the east. It is home to [...]
Parks and Recreation as an Essential Service: Using a health equity lens to strengthen provision in Niagara
COVID-19 and its restrictions on parks and recreation delivery have highlighted the importance of the sector to our citizens. The challenges of pandemic crisis management in the sector has also provided an opportunity to position parks and recreation delivery within [...]
Return to the Workplace: A Psychological Toolkit for Heading Back to Work
This CMHA Ontario toolkit provides guidance on how to support the mental health of individuals as they plan safe transitions back into their workplaces, as our community emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also provides help for employers as they [...]
Urban Agriculture Strategy being created by City of Mississauga Parks, Forestry and Environment Division
The City of Mississauga is building an urban agriculture strategy to help identify the City’s role in supporting Corporate and community efforts to increase urban-scale food production across Mississauga. The strategy is part of the city’s Climate Change Action Plan. [...]
Road Safety Attitudes and Behaviours in Ontario
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation released Road Safety Attitude and Behaviour research in April 2021. Survey responses were gathered from a representative sample of 1,400 Ontarians age 16+, including 1,199 surveyed online and 201 surveyed by telephone. Similar surveys were [...]
Access to the Internet in Canada, 2020
Early findings from the 2020 Internet Use Survey, released by Statistics Canada, show that while the majority of Canadians have adequate internet access, approximately 6% did not have access to the Internet at home. When asked why they did not [...]
Living in Niagara-2020 report
The Living in Niagara report provides a snapshot of the quality of life in the Niagara-wide community. The report combines data, information, and front-line community expert opinion, to draw an evidence-informed picture of life in Niagara now; to point to [...]
Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Proportion of Canadian Youth Neither in Employment Nor Education at Start of 2020/21 School Year
A new study released May 25, 2021 shows that, at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, when faced with unprecedented youth unemployment and postsecondary education moving online, young women aged 17 to 24 responded by enrolling in postsecondary institutions at a higher rate than a [...]
Canadian Postsecondary Education Alcohol and Drug Use Survey, 2019/2020
In Canada, substance use generally peaks during young adulthood. Young adults attending a postsecondary institution have a range of new experiences during this life stage. Through the 2019–2020 Canadian Postsecondary education Alcohol and Drug use Survey (CPADS), Health Canada collected [...]
The Consumer Price Index and COVID-19: A One-Year Retrospective
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in economic disruptions that continue to affect financial and labour markets across the globe. At the onset of the pandemic, prices shifted significantly as Canadians entered a sustained period of physical distancing and business closures. As [...]
What’s Art Got To Do With It? The Role of Arts and Culture in a Community’s Survival During a Global Pandemic
This is Policy Brief #50 in the Brock University Niagara Community Observatory series. Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters, associate professor at Brock's Faculty of Education, writes about the importance of arts and arts education as we emerge from the pandemic. She writes: [...]
OPENN Substance Use Prevention Strategy
The Overdose Prevention and Education Network of Niagara (OPENN) formed in 2016 to respond to overdoses in Niagara, including the opioid overdose crisis. In 2020, OPENN released its Substance Use Prevention Strategy. The strategy is based on consultations with key [...]
Unflood Ontario
Unflood Ontario seeks to bring public attention to the growing flooding concerns. Water has to go somewhere. Urbanization while necessary, when done without consideration for the environment, leads to spaces that cause more harm than good. Unflood Ontario focuses on [...]
Stop The Spread and Stay Safe: COVID-19 Screening Program for Non-Profit Organizations
Frontline organizations in Ontario will soon have access to free, rapid, self-administered COVID-19 screening tests through a new program called Stop the Spread and Stay Safe. The program, run by the Canadian Red Cross in partnership with the Government of Canada, [...]
Trauma-Informed Interventions through an Indigenous Worldview presented by Brianna Olson
This resource is a recording of a webinar that included almost 1500 participants. It was presented by Brianna Olson and hosted by the Western University Centre for Research and Education in Violence Against Women and Children. The webinar content is [...]
Human Resources Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Charities and Nonprofits
This report is based on a survey completed by 1,361 Canadian charities and non-profit organizations in February, 2021. It covers staffing, volunteering and the use of government studies and relief programs. Survey results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has had [...]
Advancing Supply Chain Logistics in Hamilton-Niagara
This brief summary report provides an overview of a mid-2020 investigation of the theme of Advancing Hamilton-Niagara Supply Chains, as well as access to detailed materials gathered through the process. The topic was examined through a series of 5 virtual [...]
