Niagara Poverty Reduction Strategy – Interim Report on Community Engagement
From September to December, 2022, Niagara Region staff engaged with community groups and individuals, to gather diverse perspectives and experiences to inform Niagara’s first poverty reduction strategy. Participants were asked to envision an ideal future state, speak to challenges, identify [...]
Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into your work in Niagara: Event Recording
This is an event recording of the May 02, 2023 webinar presented by Niagara Connects, to examine ways in which people at Niagara College and Brock University are embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their work in Niagara. [...]
Childcare Workforce in Crisis: Our Economy Won’t Work Without ELCC workers
A 2-page Topic Brief highlighting current issues within our ELCC workforce as well as the links between early learning and childcare (ELCC) and our economy. Published By: Workforce Collective Published Date: March 2023 Click here to view: Childcare Workforce in [...]
Equitable Employment for Immigrants: A Win-Win for All
This 2-page Topic Brief is a snapshot in time; helping readers get an idea of how many newcomers are in Niagara right now, the challenges and inequities in employment they face, and intending to serve to spark further conversation and [...]
2023 Giving Report
The rising cost of living and prolonged impacts from the pandemic have more Canadians in need of charitable services. At the same time, fewer Canadians are making charitable donations. The sixth annual edition of Canada Helps’ Giving Report focuses on [...]
Fostering Healthy, Equitable & Climate-friendly Communities – Webinar Recording
This webinar recording presents case studies of strategies used by 3 Canadian public health organizations, to advance policies that address population health, health equity, and climate emissions in their communities. Two BC case studies (Vancouver and Vancouver Island), and one [...]
Strengthening Niagara: Insights from a Survey of Niagara’s Older Adults
This is an event recording of the March 29, 2023 Age-Friendly Niagara Council (AFNC) webinar, hosted by Niagara Connects, to share results of the 2022 'Empowering Older Adults in Niagara' survey, conducted by the AFNC. More than 1,200 adults 50+ [...]
Canada’s National Active Transportation Strategy 2021-2026
The aim of this strategy is to: make data-driven and evidence-based investments to build new and expanded active transportation (AT) networks; and to create safe environments for more equitable, healthy, active and sustainable travel options to thrive. The strategy vision [...]
Town of Lincoln Age-Friendly Survey Report
This report summarizes results of the Town of Lincoln Age-Friendly Citizen Survey, conducted from November, 2019 to January, 2020. A total of 461 individuals participated in the survey, with a 79% completion rate. The report presents initiatives that are currently [...]
CLEO Connect Learning Preferences Survey Deadline March 24, 2023
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) Connect would like to invite you to complete our Learning Preferences survey. Your responses will help CLEO Connect develop practical training and support for those of you who work with the public and assist people [...]
Ontario’s VQA Wine and Grape Industry 2030 Vision
Ontario’s VQA (Vintners Quality Alliance) wine and grape industry has a common vision that, “by 2030 Ontario’s wine consumers will confidently choose our VQA wines over imported alternatives”. Two foundational factors are envisioned to drive the industry’s evolution toward 2030: [...]
Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker
The Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker was an experimental product designed by Statistics Canada in 2021, to assess COVID-19 recovery of tourism activity in Canada. The Tracker combined data from multiple sources, including counts of international travellers, domestic and international commercial [...]
Rural Ontario Facts – Indigenous Peoples Factsheet
The statistics presented in this Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) factsheet can help to provide important context for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action. Communities, policymakers, and researchers can use this information to acknowledge the past, and the legacy [...]
Climate Projections for Niagara Region
This report was created to support policy development in the new Niagara Official Plan, adopted by Niagara Region Council on June 23, 2022. It provides climate trend summaries for observed and projected climate data. The climate analysis demonstrates that the [...]
Climate Change, Health and Well-Being – Review of International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Evidence 2022
This World Health Organization (WHO) policy brief is designed to help governments, academia, civil society and the health and well-being community to access and utilize International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) evidence, to strengthen governance and implementation on climate change [...]
Younger Canadians Experience Lower Perceived Well-being: Insights from the Canadian Social Survey
A combined analysis of nine quality-of-life indicators, based on data from 5 waves of the Canadian Social Survey (2021-2022) shows that older adults in Canada (65 to 84 years) reported the highest perceived well-being (41% with a high combined score). [...]
Niagara College Strategic Plan 2022-2027
The process to develop the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan for Niagara College began late in 2020 and continued, amid the pandemic, throughout 2021. The collaborative process to develop the plan included consultation across the College organization with staff, faculty, students, alumni, [...]
Community Study Report: Civic Engagement to Build Sustainable Local Capacity: Perspectives of Age-Friendly Community Volunteers in the Niagara Region
This report presents results of a 2021 study of older adult volunteerism in the Age-Friendly Niagara movement. Brock University researchers worked in partnership with the Age-Friendly Niagara Council, local municipal older adult advisory committees and municipal staff. Eight key informant [...]
Niagara Biennial Jury Report 2022
The Niagara Biennial Design Award winners represent the quality and diversity of design of the built environment in Niagara in five design categories. Established in 2020, the bi-annual awards are open to owners, developers, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, [...]
Living in Niagara and the Sustainable Development Goals: Event Recording
This is an event recording of the January 24, 2023 webinar presented by Niagara Connects, to engage participants in learning how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) apply in the Canadian context and how they align with the Living [...]
