Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
March 2009 In November 2008, over one hundred members of the Halton community met to participate in the development of a Blueprint for Economic Stimulus and Poverty Reduction in Ontario. The Blueprint lays out a plan that could reduce the number of poor Ontarians by...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
December 1998 Background The 1997 Federal budget called for a change in the way the government provides financial support to families with children. According to the budget, the goal is “an enriched and simplified federal child benefit as a platform for...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
February 2002 The Halton Social Planning Council is concerned about access and opportunity in education. The Council’s demographic and social statistics on Halton’s population demonstrate year after year the positive relationship of education to literacy,...
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
March 2009 I share with you an immediate measure, a $100 healthy food supplement, which protects the vulnerable in society. It grows out of the advice received in 30 community consultations held across the province in the late fall of 2008. Halton was one of the...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
February 1999 As we move into 1999 the Halton Social Planning Council and Volunteer Centre shares with our community the highlights from the keynote address given at the Council’s Annual Meeting. It is our hope that the thoughts and insights of our speaker will...