In case you had not heard: The Community Services Committee has recommended to
Toronto City Council endorsement of  the Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada.
It is on the agenda for Council next week. It has already been endorsed by the
Board of Health. The Charter came out of a Health Canada funded conference in
Toronto last December.

Please consider having your local health board or city council -- in Canada --
review and endorse it.

What is interesting about the Charter is that it can be used as a scoresheet
against which municipal, provincial, and federal policy can be evaluated as to
their health effects on the population. The conclusion is especially interesting
regarding the Harris/Eves health legacy.

My website below has papers that develop this theme. The Charter is posted at
that website in english, french, and spanish.

Dennis Raphael

Dennis Raphael, PhD
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
School of Health Policy and Management
Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
tel: 416-736-2100, ext. 22134
fax: 416-736-5227
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website: http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/QuickPlace/draphael/Main.nsf/

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