Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
June 2004 Community Development Halton wishes to acknowledge the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia, SPARC BC, for the development of the materials in Canada Votes 2004. Community Development Halton has made changes to this material in order to...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
October 2006 The United Nations has designated October 17 as International Day for the Elimination of Poverty. I thought it important on this day to reflect on Canada’s record to eliminate poverty across our land. Poverty has a devastating impact. It represents...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
July 2010 Community Development Halton is astonished and deeply concerned about the recent decision of the Federal Government to discontinue the mandatory long-form questionnaire for the 2011 Census in favour of a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS). As a local...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
October 1999 The Quality of Life in Halton has fluctuated over the past ten years, as the accompanying chart indicates. It has never fully recovered from the recession and its corresponding difficulties that were encountered in the early 1990s. The score in 1998 was...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
April 2003 This edition of Community Dispatch presents the highlights of the Council’s recent report: Growing Old in Burlington: A report on seniors trends and issues. This report was requested by the United Way of Burlington, Hamilton-Wentworth. Introduction...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
September 2004 The report “Community Capacity Draining: The Impact of Current Funding Practices on Nonprofit Community” (2004) authored by Lynn Eakin for the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto outlines the effects of the funding changes in the...