Digital Trends By The Numbers: January 2016
This infographic provides an at-a-glance summary of the latest social media trends including how Canadians connect, produce and mobilize digital content. Published By: Canadian Digital Media Network Publication Date: January 2016 View Digital Trends By The Numbers
Six By Sixteen
There's a very clear link between healthy eating habits and lifelong health. Six by Sixteen wants to ensure the next generation knows how to make healthy, nutritious food choices. That's food literacy. This website builds on the existing resources of more than [...]
Niagara Cycling Tourism Summit 2016 Presentations
The Niagara Cycling Tourism Summit 2016 took place on February 24th. This event intended to help strengthen cycling tourism and support business development in Niagara. The summit aimed to collectively enhance regional products, services and increase communication and coordination on [...]
Farm, Food & Beyond: Our Commitment to Sustainability
Twenty-five years of achievement by the Ontario Farm Environmental Coalition and its partners through Environmental Farm Plans and other programs will serve as the base for a new, expanded focus that includes global environmental issues and the other pillars of sustainable development, economic and [...]
The Power of Reflection: An Introduction to Participatory Evaluation Techniques
Community groups commonly talk about needing simpler tools to evaluate their efforts. This resource, will help groups begin benefiting from their own reflection activities without needing an outside evaluator. This resource present a theoretical introduction to participatory evaluation and three simple evaluation [...]
Calculating the Cost of Living in Niagara Region 2016
For 2016, the conservatively estimated cost of living expenses for a family of four in Niagara region totaled $65,435.51. This brief provides context on the cost of living in Niagara region in 2016, as well as a detailed description of [...]
Mental Health & Addictions Access Line in Niagara: Uses, Impact & Future Potential – Event Recording
This is an event recording of the March 9, 2016 webinar with presenters Kyrsten Boucher & Marnie Lambie. 96 participants joined this event from 37 different organizations across Niagara. During this webinar presenters described the Mental Health and Addictions Access [...]
The 2015 Vineland Innovation Report
This innovation report details exciting new directions for Vineland Research & Innovation Centre and economic opportunities for Niagara. These include, among others, details about a new commercial research greenhouse, multi-product bio-inoculant testing, new products that reflect Vineland’s consumer-centric research focus, a look [...]
2015 Local Labour Market Planning Report
The 2015 update to the Labour Market Plan is built upon extensive research and evidence-based analysis of the Niagara region’s labour market strengths and challenges. This update aims to illustrate these strengths and challenges in a clear and rigorous manner. [...]
Agriculture By The Numbers in the Golden Horseshoe (Infographic)
The Golden Horseshoe is a rich farming area producing a vast array of agricultural products. Even today, as the region with the largest concentration of urban development in Canada, the Golden Horseshoe (GH) continues to be home to in excess [...]
Dental Caries Prevention in School-Aged Children: Effectiveness of Dental/Oral Hygiene Program Delivery Models (Evidence Brief)
According to the Canadian Health Measures Survey conducted from 2007-2009, over half of Canadian children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 years old are affected by dental caries. This Evidence Brief asks: What dental/oral hygiene program delivery models are most [...]
Building a Future for Agriculture in Canada: Tedx Talk
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Deborah Whale is a 7th generation Canadian farmer and Vice President of Clovermead Farms Inc., a dairy farm which also generates electricity via two anaerobic digesters. [...]
Achieving What’s Possible for Canada’s Agri-Food Sector: Final Report
Many countries are trying to sort out how to ensure the future economic growth of their food systems while addressing climate change and responding to a litany of evolving consumer concerns. Such consumer issues include health, nutrition, food safety, sustainability, ethics, food [...]
Data & Collaboration: Research Informing a Path for a Solution to Preventing Heart Disease in Niagara – Event Recording
This is an event recording of the February 24, 2016 webinar with presenters Dr. Stafford Dobbin, Don Gibson, Dr. Michael Khoury & Karen Stearne. Participants joined this event from 18 different organizations across Niagara. During this webinar presenters reviewed the [...]
Emerging Stronger 2016
Emerging Stronger is a five-year agenda aimed at spurring growth and prosperity in Ontario. It is the product of extensive consultation conducted by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the Mowat Centre and Leger. This fifth and final installment of Emerging [...]
Alternative Avenues to Local Food in School: Ingredients for Success
Through the Alternative Avenues to Local Food Procurement project, Ecosource and Roots to Harvest worked with teachers, students and food service providers in the Durham, Peel and Thunder Bay regions of Ontario, to develop and test strategies to incorporate local [...]
Measuring Up: A Yearly Report on How Ontario’s Health System is Performing (2015)
Whether Ontarians are in good health or have health problems, they expect the health system to be there for them when they need it. With more than 40 indicators of how Ontario’s health system is performing, this report highlights some [...]
Consider This: How Do We Boost Healthy Eating in Niagara? (Podcast)
What we eat has tremendous impacts on our health. Whole foods rich in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are vital to our growth and development, from pre-birth to old age. A well-balanced diet also helps to reduce or prevent disease. [...]
Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance: Section 3 Demographic Growth
The objective of this resource is to present a demographic profile for the Golden Horseshoe (GH) using the most recent (2011) census data. This section incorporates data from earlier census periods where available and allows for the identification of key [...]
Food Hub Case Study
This resource examines the Niagara Local Food Co-op (NLFC). The NLFC works at the regional level to connect local food producers with local consumers. The NLFC is an example of a producer-driven virtual farmers’ market. Members of the co-operative include [...]
