South Niagara Hospital Project
This website provides information about the South Niagara Hospital site of Niagara Health. The 1.3 million square foot hospital is [...]
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07, 2026
Climate Change and Wildfires Fact Sheet
This Canadian Climate Institute fact sheet states that the smoke from wildfires can spread thousands of kilometres, requiring school closures [...]
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07, 2026
United Way Golden Horseshoe 2025-2026 Impact Report
'Local Impact, Lasting Change. Together, we can build stronger communities for everyone' is the theme of United Way Golden Horseshoe's [...]
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07, 2026
2026 Poverty Report Card
This Food Banks Canada report card shows that Canada's resilience against poverty and food insecurity improved slightly in 2026. However, [...]
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06, 2026
Canada’s National Food Security Strategy
Canada's National Food Security Strategy is about giving Canadians more choice, more control, and more affordable locally-produced food on the [...]
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06, 2026
Connections Between Poverty, Climate, Women’s Health & Health Equity
Increasingly, health organizations in Canada are recognizing the climate crisis as a health emergency which exacerbates existing inequities, and calls [...]
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06, 2026
Community Action on the UN SDGs in Canada & Niagara: Webinar Recording
How can global goals help guide local action? In this recorded webinar, Community Potential brings the United Nations Sustainable Development [...]
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05, 2026
Indigenous Visions of Making Home in Niagara
This policy brief aims to assist the Indigenous community in informing Niagara and its decision-makers of their visions for housing [...]
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05, 2026
Gendered Perspectives on Mental Health Among Canadian Farmers
University of Guelph research examined gendered perspectives on mental health among Canadian farmers. Semi-structured interviews of 75 farmers and agricultural [...]
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05, 2026
Working with people with lived and living experience: A guide for meaningful engagement
This guide highlights practical approaches and recommendations for organizations to engage with people with lived and living experiences (PWLLE) of [...]
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05, 2026
Niagara’s EarlyON Child & Family Centres – a coordinated, community-based hub model
The Regional Municipality of Niagara won a 2026 Ontario Municipal Social Services Association (OMSSA) Local Municipal Champion Award for 'Reimagining [...]
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05, 2026
Canada’s Official Poverty Dashboard of Indicators: Trends, April 2026
This dashboard summarizes progress on poverty reduction for Canadians and their households, from 2020 to 2024. In 2024, the poverty [...]
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05, 2026
Solutions: Everybody’s Business Senior to Senior Anti-Bullying Toolkit
This toolkit assists residences and organizations working with older adults to establish strategies for tackling bullying specifically between older people. [...]
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04, 2026
Instilling Positive Age Beliefs to Redefine Aging
A study report by Becca R. Levy and Martin D. Slade of Yale University, “Aging Redefined: Cognitive and Physical Improvement [...]
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04, 2026
2025 Progress Report on Canada’s 2022 to 2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy
This 2025 Progress Report reflects the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development, tracking the Government of Canada’s progress [...]
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04, 2026
Children’s Experiences of Homelessness in Shelter Living
In 2022, the YWCA Niagara Region partnered with Drs Rebecca Raby and Christine Tardif-Williams of Brock University to embark on [...]
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03, 2026
Strengthening the Recreation and Sports Sector of the Living in Niagara Report
Special thanks to Dr. Martha Barnes of Brock University for writing this blog post. It describes steps taken to engage [...]
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03, 2026
United Way Niagara Merging into the new United Way Golden Horseshoe
United Way Niagara is joining forces with Brant United Way, United Way Haldimand Norfolk and United Way Halton and Hamilton [...]
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03, 2026
Planning for the Future: A Data-Driven Health System in Niagara
This report by the Niagara Ontario Health Team - Équipe Santé Ontario Niagara (NOHT-ÉSON) establishes a baseline understanding of the [...]
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03, 2026
Designed to Fail: How Ontario’s Income Security Policies Create and Perpetuate Homelessness
As of July, 2025, more than 30,000 people receiving Ontario Works (OW) or Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits were [...]
