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...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
November 2006 I thought it important to bring to your attention a unique experiment underway in our province. A Citizens’ Assembly has been constituted to review Ontario’s electoral system. The Citizens’ Assembly will recommend whether Ontario keeps...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
September 2010 In August of 2010 provincial and territorial Premiers met in Winnipeg to hold their annual Council of the Federation meeting. Across the street, convened by Campaign 2000, Canadian Council on Social Development, Council of Canadians with Disabilities...
Jul 31, 2011 | Community Dispatch Archive
December 1996 A Community Member’s Reflection “All wars are waged against children” Eglantyne Jebb, Save the Children, England, 1919 Eglantyne Jebb assisted when the League of Nations drafted and adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in...