September 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics Canada provides data [...]
A Way Home: Youth Homelessness Community Planning Toolkit
The toolkit is designed as a resource for organizations and/or individuals considering or already leading community efforts to develop strategic responses to youth homelessness. Most likely, you are working in or with non-profit, government, lived experience and private sector stakeholders [...]
Niagara Catholic District School Board: Mental Health and Addictions Strategy
The Mental Health and Addictions Strategy of the Niagara Catholic District School Board, through the charisms of faith, social justice, support and leadership, recognizes and honours the responsibility of the entire community to reach out in faith, hope and love [...]
Niagara Cycling Tourism Report
Since the creation of the Greater Niagara Circle Route and the development of Niagara Region’s Transportation Strategy in 2002, cycling has become a “top of mind” means of sustainable, active transportation in Niagara and part of promoting a healthy lifestyle [...]
Backgrounder: Rural Complete Streets
This backgrounder is based on a scan of Complete Street best practices in rural Canadian municipalities. The objective was to look at the unique challenges that rural areas face in adopting and implementing Complete Street policies, and also to share some [...]
A Home for All Task Force
A Home for All is the community's ten year vision for those facing homelessness and other housing issues; it is a ten-year plan that lays out priorities, goals and actions to help realize that vision. A Home for All identifies five key areas [...]
Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada
The goal of the report, ‘Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada’ is to present an argument for approaching how we respond to youth homelessness in a new way.The report achieves this by pulling together key [...]
Small Business Resource Centre
This online repository for business planning includes business plans, videos, how-to guides, templates and case studies. Published By: Meridian Credit Union View Small Business Resource Centre
Atlas of the Aging Population of Canada
The Atlas of the Aging Population of Canada is an interactive atlas that anyone from the community, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to use to learn more about the older population of their community, geographic patterns across their [...]
August 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics Canada provides data [...]
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Browse the portal for evidence summaries and blog posts about topics related to health conditions, healthcare delivery and healthy aging practice. Published By: McMaster University View McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Youth Volunteer Engagement: Skills Development and Social Inclusion
Volunteering helps people and communities reach their potential. With 44% of Canadians 15 years of age and older volunteering an average of 154 hours each year, youth (aged 15-24 years) are leading the way with a volunteer rate of 55%. [...]
Evangelism and the Amazing Spread of Quality Reputation of Ontario Winemaking
This research overview provides a summary of a five-year long study of Ontario winemaking and Ontario Wine Industry’s thirty-year quest for recognition as a world-class wine region. Authors: Dr. Maxim Voronov & Dr. Wesley Helms Published By: Brock University Publication Date: March 2016 [...]
Concurrent Disorders Capacity Building Strategy: Resource Website
The Concurrent Disorders Capacity Building Strategy is a project of the HNHB LHIN (Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network) and aims to lead local concurrent disorders improvement projects, create local 'action tables', and provide education on concurrent disorders. [...]
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: A Shared Responsibility
In 2015, The Premier’s Highly Skilled Workforce Expert Panel was appointed to develop a strategy to help the province's current and future workforce adapt to the demands of a technology-driven knowledge economy. This report contains the Panel’s final recommendations specific [...]
July 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics Canada provides data [...]
Victimization of Aboriginal People in Canada, 2014
This article uses both provincial and territorial data from the 2014 GSS on Victimization to present information on Aboriginal victimization, with a particular focus on violent victimization. Characteristics associated with these incidents, including possible risk factors as well as consequences [...]
Canadian Centre for Food Integrity 2016 Public Trust Research Report: With Insights From Moms, Millennials and Foodies
This public trust research provides a benchmark on the model and comparison to consumer trust studies undertaken by The Center for Food Integrity in the United States since 2007. The Consumer Trust Model was tested using food system issues in [...]
Are Canadian Kids Too Tired to Move? The 2016 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children & Youth
The ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth is the most comprehensive assessment of child and youth physical activity in Canada. The Report Card synthesizes data from multiple sources, including the best available peer reviewed research, to assign evidence-informed grades across 12 indicators. [...]
Obesity in Canada: A Whole-of-Society Approach for a Healthier Canada
There is an obesity crisis in this country. Canadians are paying for it with their wallets — and with their lives. But there is hope. An extensive study conducted by the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology charts a course to [...]
