Food Banks Canada Poverty Report Card
The 2024 Poverty Report Card for provinces/territories is provided by Food Banks Canada. The Ontario report card can be compared [...]
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05, 2024
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04, 2024
Municipal collaboration in regional event hosting processes: The case of the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games
This policy brief examines how local area municipalities collaborated once Niagara Region was awarded the hosting rights to the 2021 [...]
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04, 2024
Sustaining Food Security in Niagara – Niagara Community Observatory Policy Brief #58
This policy brief outlines the extent of the problem of food security at a national, provincial, and local level. It [...]
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02, 2023
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 [...]
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02, 2020
2018 MBNCanada Performance Measurement Report
MBNCanada is a collaborative of Canadian municipalities whose mission is to enhance municipal service delivery by leading the development and [...]
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01, 2020
Reflections on Amalgamation: Where Do We Go From Here? (Policy Brief #44)
The Niagara Community Observatory produced a policy brief in April 2019 entitled “Under the Knife & Under the Gun: An [...]
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12, 2019
Niagara Region Strategic Plan 2019-2022
The purpose of a strategic plan is to guide the work of the organization over a four year period, to [...]
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09, 2019
Towards Canada’s 2030 Agenda National Strategy
In September 2015, Canada and all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda), [...]
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07, 2019
Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector
Struck in January 2018, the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector was asked to examine and report on Canada's [...]
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06, 2019
Food Policy for Canada: Everyone at the Table
Food affects the daily lives of all those living in Canada. It provides the energy and nutrients needed to live [...]
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06, 2019
Niagara’s Agribusiness Sector: Towards a More Resilient Innovation Cluster (Policy Brief #40)
The purpose of this policy brief is to provide a portrait of recent trends in the agribusiness sector in Niagara [...]
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04, 2019
Analyzing 211 Rural Unmet Service Needs
As a free telephone helpline and online search service that connects inquirers to community, health, social and government services, 211 [...]
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04, 2019
Under The Knife and Under the Gun: An Overview of Regional Government In Niagara (Policy Brief #38)
Prof. David Siegel, an expert on local government in Ontario, weighs in on the discussion surrounding regional government in Niagara. [...]
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02, 2019
Canadian Open Data Summit 2018: Data Commons in Montreal’s Smart City – Beyond Open Data
This resource package includes presentation files and additional resources for Patrick Lozeau's keynote presentation at the Canadian Open Data Summit [...]
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02, 2019
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 [...]
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01, 2019
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 [...]
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01, 2019
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 [...]
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01, 2019
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 [...]
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12, 2018
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 [...]
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12, 2018
Ontario’s Digital Action Plan: Start with Users. Deliver Together. Ontario’s Path to Simpler, Faster, Better Government
This Action Plan outlines Ontario's current picture, answers the question 'what is digital'?, and describes what a digitally inclusive tomorrow [...]
