Poverty Tool: Wallet Card (French)
This wallet card, translated into French, provides information about where to go in Niagara for help with housing, legal status and immigration, money, learning and personal needs. Published By: Niagara Region, Niagara Falls Community Health Centre, Bridges Community Health Centre, Centre [...]
Poverty Tool: Wallet Guide (Spanish)
This wallet card, translated into Spanish, provides information about where to go in Niagara for help with housing, legal status and immigration, money, learning and personal needs. Published by: Niagara Region, Niagara Falls Community Health Centre, Bridges Community Health Centre, Centre [...]
Poverty Tool: Wallet Guide (Chinese)
This wallet card, translated into Chinese, provides information about where to go in Niagara for help with housing, legal status and immigration, money, learning and personal needs. Published by: Niagara Region, Niagara Falls Community Health Centre, Bridges Community Health Centre, Centre [...]
Demographic Changes in Canadian Agriculture
This analytical paper includes a review of current demographic data within Canadian Agriculture and points to emerging trends such as fewer operators, fewer young operators and fewer farms. Author: Martin S. Beaulieu Published By: Statistics Canada, infostats@statcan.gc.ca Publication Date: February, 2014 View Demographic [...]
Niagara Age-Friendly Community: Authors Guide
This resource describes the criteria and process for submitting articles about work that positively promotes and advances the principles of age-friendly communities. Click here to read previous articles written between 2010-2013. Published By: Niagara Age-Friendly Community Network, steve.murphy@niagararegion.ca Publication Date: February, [...]
GoBidNiagara
GoBidNiagara is a one-stop virtual portal for the interaction between public institutions and private business for publicly tendered contracts in Niagara. The site specializes in indexing brief descriptions and links to Tenders, Request for Quotation and other bid solicitations from [...]
Prescribing Income: Video
This video explores the impact of poverty on health and demonstrates an approach to prescribing income in a primary care setting. Published by: Bridges Community Health Centre For other resources related to income and health, see the Poverty Tool: Wallet Guide [...]
Poverty Tool: Wallet Guide (English)
This wallet card provides information about where to go in Niagara for help with housing, legal status and immigration, money, learning and personal needs. Published by: Niagara Region, Niagara Falls Community Health Centre, Bridges Community Health Centre, Centre de Santé Communautaire [...]
A Clinical Tool and Resource Listing for Primary Care in Niagara: Poverty
Poverty is a health risk, equivalent to hypertension, high cholesterol, and smoking. Therefore, it is best to factor poverty into clinical decision-making like other risk factors. This tool describes a primary care approach to screen, adjust risk, and intervene. A [...]
Basic Income Programs and Pilots
This resource reviews basic income programs and pilots from around the world and offers links for additional information. Author: Chandra Pasma Published By: Basic Income Canada Network, info@biencanada.ca Publication Date: February, 2014 View Basic Income Programs and Pilots
Towards a Basic Income Guarantee for All Canadians
This presentation, made by Rob Rainer to the Tamarack Institute's Cities Reducing Poverty on February 3, 2014, reviews the rationale for a basic income, two predominant concerns, the BIG Push Campaign and apparent public support. Author: Rob Rainer, Director of [...]
Niagara Connects Strategic Evaluation Plan 2013
This 2-page resource outlines the methodology, results and recommendations 2013 Niagara Connects Evaluation study. Published By: Niagara Connects, info@niagaraconnects.ca Publication Date: January, 2014 View Niagara Connects Strategic Evaluation Plan 2013
Attitudes About Aging – A Global Perspective
This report examines global public opinion on the challenges posed by aging populations for countries and for respondents personally. The Pew Research Center surveys were conducted in 21 countries from March 3 to April 21, 2013, and totaled 22,425 respondents. [...]
The Big Push Campaign Plan and Budget
The BIG Push is the first national campaign for basic income (BI) in Canada. This resource details the campaign goals, milestones and campaign budget. Published By: Basic Income Canada Network, info@biencanada.ca Publication Date: January, 2014 View The Big Push Campaign Plan [...]
Niagara Economic Development: Determining industry Needs Survey
This report describes the background, methodology and findings of research intended to lead to the development of an all-inclusive strategy for developing tools and services designed to strengthen small and medium firms' capacity in a number of key areas including: [...]
How’s Life? 2013 Measuring Well-Being
This report provides a bi-annual assessment of people's well-being in OECD countries and in selected emerging economies. The 2013 edition of How's Life covers four topics: the impact of the global financial crisis on well-being; gender differences in well-being; well-being [...]
Creative Economy Report 2013 Special Edition: Widening Local Development Pathways
This special edition of the Creative Economy Report contains a body of evidence reflecting the experiences, actions and resources of local actors and communities around the world that are being deployed to forge new pathways that are both human and [...]
Age-Friendly Action in Niagara: Community Articles 2010-2013
This document contains 61 articles written by volunteers around Ontario's Niagara region who were engaged in the Niagara Age-Friendly Community Initiative (2010 to 2013). This Initiative was led by Niagara-wide volunteers, with funding support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Many of [...]
Open Data Ontario
Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share alike. The Ontario catalogue includes data on popular topics such as road conditions, inbound [...]
How a Guaranteed Income Could Put Food Banks Out of Business
This paper investigates the potential implications for non-elderly poverty in Canada by estimating the impacts of the guaranteed annual income floor, provided to Canadians 65 and over through federal public pension plans, on household food insecurity prevalence and self- reported [...]
