Age-Friendly Niagara Network: 2018 Impact
This placemat summarizes the milestones achieved by the Age-Friendly Niagara Network in 2018. Published By: Age-Friendly Niagara Network Publication Date: February 2019 View Age-Friendly Niagara Network: 2018 Impact
Niagara Roots, Global Reach: Brock University Institutional Strategic Plan 2018-2025
The Institutional Strategic Plan describes Brock University’s history and its current environment, including challenges and opportunities that this entails. The University’s mission, vision and guiding values are outlined, as well as four strategic priorities, each with goals and actions, to [...]
Ohni:kara An Aspiring Global Geopark (Policy Brief #37)
While the concept of geoparks date back to the 1990s, specifically with their establishment in Europe and China, it wasn’t until 2004 that the Global Geoparks Network was formed under UNESCO. Furthermore, the official branding of the UNESCO Global Geopark [...]
Homelessness in 2030: Essays on Possible Futures
This book aims to distill the wisdom needed to end homelessness from all the knowledge that leading researchers have gained from their extensive work. This collection of essays covers hopeful visions, dystopian scenarios, insights by country, and paradigms and policy. [...]
Innovating Employment Podcast: Empowering older workers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset
Helen Hirsh Spence, CEO and Founder at Top Sixty Over Sixty joins the program to discuss empowering older workers (over the age of 55) to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. Key takeaways from the episode: While ageism is typically associated with [...]
Cannabis Market Data
This information is collected under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations, which replaced the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations on August 24, 2016. Based on market data, there is an overall sufficient supply of cannabis for medical purposes to [...]
The City of Welland’s Road to Certification with ISO 37120 Sustainable Cities and Communities: Indicators for City Service and Quality of Life
This article demonstrates the City of Welland staff’s inter-departmental approach to collecting and uniting data from across city departments, to create a user-friendly open data system for stakeholders and city staff. Through team-work and consistency, Welland was able to report [...]
The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste: The Roadmap
Stated in simple terms, food loss and waste (FLW) is 1) the discarding of resources along the value chain utilized in the production and distribution of consumer foods and beverages, and 2) foods purchased by consumers though not eaten. As [...]
The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste: Technical Report
Stated in simple terms, food loss and waste (FLW) is 1) the discarding of resources along the value chain utilized in the production and distribution of consumer foods and beverages, and 2) foods purchased by consumers though not eaten. As [...]
Immigration and Language in Canada, 2011 and 2016
This document focuses on immigration and language in Canada. It presents a general statistical portrait of immigrants by certain language characteristics and by their main countries of birth, using data from the 2011 National Household Survey and the 2016 Census [...]
Human Sex Trafficking Information Sheet
This information sheet provides information about warning signs and what to do if you believe someone is being trafficked. Published By: Victim Services Niagara View Human Sex Trafficking Information Sheet
National Tourism Indicators, Third Quarter 2018
The National Tourism Indicators (NTI) provide timely information which facilitates ongoing monitoring and analysis of tourism and its related activities in Canada. The NTI cover the domestic supply of tourism commodities (such as transportation, accommodation, food & beverages, recreation & [...]
Canadian Open Data Summit 2018: Expert Panel on Digital Rights – Data Governance, Policy and Ethics
This resource package includes presentation files and additional resources for the Expert Panel on Digital Rights at the Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS18) on November 8, 2018 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Sharing of this package is made possible by ODX in partnership with Niagara [...]
Canadian Open Data Summit 2018: Jean-Noé Landry Keynote Presentation State of Open Data – Local to Global
This resource package includes presentation files and additional resources for Hillary Hartley’s Keynote Presentation at the Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS18) on November 8, 2018 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Sharing of this package is made possible by ODX in partnership [...]
Health Statistics for Niagara
This site includes a collection of statistics on health topics and progress status for program and service delivery. Topics include: Behaviours Cancer Child Health Demographics Infectious Diseases Injuries Maternal and Newborn Health Opiods Substance Use Published By: Niagara Region View [...]
Guidelines for Obtaining Meaningful Consent
These guidelines are part of The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's work to improve the current consent model under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The guidelines include An overview Seven guiding principles for online consent Determining the [...]
Road Safety Attitudes and Behaviours: Draft Report
This report presents the findings of the 2017 Ministry of Transportation Road Safety Survey. Similar surveys were conducted in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Data from previous surveys are presented in the report where available and appropriate. Published By: Ministry of [...]
Canadian Open Data Summit 2018: Hillary Hartley Keynote Presentation
This resource package includes presentation files and additional resources for Hillary Hartley’s Keynote Presentation at the Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS18) on November 8, 2018 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Sharing of this package is made possible by ODX in partnership with Niagara Connects. Speaker: [...]
Canadian Open Data Summit 2018: Dr. Jonathan Dewar Keynote Presentation
This resource package includes presentation files and additional resources for Dr. Jonathan Dewar’s Keynote Presentation at the Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS18) on November 8, 2018 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Sharing of this package is made possible by ODX in partnership [...]
The National Report of the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey
The First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey (FNREEES, or REEES) was created to address a long-standing data gap that existed around early childhood education and development, youth employment and education, adult employment and education, and labour-market conditions [...]
