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Closing the Prosperity Gap: Solutions for a More Liveable City Region : Report

15 Oct 2014

The lack of sufficient tools to confront these challenges leads Social cohesion is also key to the region’s liveability and the to a rising sense of marginalization in these low-income advantage that comes when people and businesses choose neighbourhoods — a feeling of being left out of the region’s to locate in the Toronto region for its high quality of life. [...] The Centre operates and shaping the kinds of new collaborations that can add new leverages the College’s history of excellence and reputation value to the economy and attract investment in industries to provide relevant and accessible educational opportunities that contribute wealth and good jobs to the region. [...] Proactive discussions Such questions point to a growing recognition about the gulf among government, employers, labour and the community separating the lived experience of employees and the ability sector could inform the development and implementation of traditional policies and systems of support to alleviate of these important initiatives. [...] and newcomers.78 There is growing interest in SEs in Ontario, with the creation of the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure’s Office for Social Enterprise in 2012, and recent research on social enterprise by the Mowat Centre.79 A number of groups have played an important role in social enterprise in the region, including the Toronto Enterprise Fund (TEF) and the Learning. [...] community organizations, and other stakeholders to support workforce development collaboration and innovation.118 The The Government of Canada provides approximately Board and UWT both participated in consultations with the 119 $500 million per year to the provinces and territories in the City of Toronto related to this work in 2013.
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