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Public Health Officer of Canada: Build active communities to …

WEBThe design of our communities has significant impact on our health and well-being. This is a concept that has increasingly become central to our work at TCAT, and …

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Health Equity in Active Transportation Planning

WEBActive transportation is a well-known aid to physical health and the environment, but fewer mentions were made of mental and community health benefits: …

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INCREASING CYCLING IN CANADA

WEB2 Increasing Cycling in Canada Principal Investigator Dr. Beth Savan, University of Toronto Co-Investigators Dr. Ray Tomalty, McGill University Dr. Meghan Winters, Simon Fraser …

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Healthy Streets: An Evidence Review

WEBComplete Streets Forum , Toronto, ON | October 6, 2014. An Evidence Review. • Purpose – create, in collaboration with Toronto Public Health, a review of available research …

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Building Evidence to Support Complete & Healthy Streets in …

WEBIn 2013, Toronto Public Health commissioned a project team led by Urban Design 4 Health, Ltd. and including TCAT, MMM Group, and PlaceScape, to develop a trio of reports …

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Resource Spotlight: Gehl Institute’s Inclusive Healthy Places

WEBInclusive Healthy Places also sets out four guiding principles for shaping and evaluating healthy public space projects. Gehl’s four principles—context, process, …

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Active Transportation and Health Equity in Markham, Ontario

WEBIn this research, the responses of York Region residents to a national health survey (2015-2016) were used to explore relationships between the built environment and chronic …

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Healthy Streets, Healthy People

WEBAre you a student in the field of health (medical, public health, therapy, etc)? Are you interested in the intersections between our built environment, how we travel and …

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Looking at Toronto’s Transportation Response to the COVID-19 …

WEBOn May 28, 2020, City Council approved ActiveTO, a suite of programs deployed to promote the health and wellbeing of Toronto residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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Planning for Health in Ontario

WEBA new website launched this month – PlanningforHealth.ca – provides resources for Ontario public health professionals who are working with their …

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Dr. Scott Wooder

WEBA family physician in Stoney Creek, Ontario and the former President of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), Dr. Scott Wooder recognizes the importance of physical activity as …

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Windemere Jarvis Public Health Consultant

WEBWindemere Jarvis is a Public Health Specialist Consultant working on the Healthy Built Environments – A Provincial Framework for Healthy Community Design project. She has …

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Building Active Communities Together November 2017

WEBOn November 29, 2017, TCAT and our Active Neighbourhoods Canada partners, the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and the Sustainable Calgary Society, released a new …

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Getting to Vision Zero with Complete Streets

WEBComplete Streets can fit within the engineering stream of a Vision Zero plan. It changes deeply embedded processes and priorities to ensure that streets across the …

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Active Transportation Actions in Response to Covid-19 April …

WEBBetween April and August 2020, TCAT partnered with Share the Road Cycling Coalition to present six live webinars and develop the resources below for municipal staff about re …

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Complete Streets

WEBComplete Streets. Complete Streets are streets that are safe for everyone: people who walk, bicycle, take transit, or drive, and people of all ages and abilities. Since 2009, …

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Mikey Bennington Associate

WEBMikey is a public health professional who specializes in the built environment and the role of active transportation in the development of healthy communities. He is a former …

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Active Transportation and Health Equity in Markham, Ontario

WEBAcknowledgements This report was produced by Nahomi Amberber, University of Toronto Master of Public Health Candidate, during an internship at The Centre for Active …

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