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	<title>Belonging Community: Being at home in an urban neighbourhood</title>
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		<title>Toronto Community Partnership Stategy: Councillors get it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An update on a posting in January on the Toronto Community Partnership: Priority Neighbourhood Areas Revised:
On February 22, Toronto City Council will consider a recommendation to adopt a new Toronto Community Partnership Stategy (CSP). The Strategy was approved at the City Committee on Social Development and Recreation at its February 3 meeting. Councillors in attendance were very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1572&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major reasons I keep my subscription to the Toronto Star are its commitment to local reporting, hard investigative journalism, and its mapping/GIS team. It&#8217;s the sort of work that print journalism has to do if it&#8217;s to survive. According to the Tyee, journalism professor Stephen Ward explains &#8220;The future of journalism is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1559&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Majora Carter on &#8220;greening the ghetto&#8221; and gentrification</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentrification]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majora Carter came to attention of many on TEDtalks. Explaining her connection to her community, she provided a strong voice about reclaiming the Bronx.
Last spring, she made a splash here in Toronto, making the rounds of City Hall, university circuit, and the media. People came to hear how she and her neighbours rebuilt their community [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1550&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed-income neighbourhoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed income neighbourhoods carry some cachet. The idea of middle class and poor folk living in harmony together catches us.
However, when looked at more closely, these communities tend to get more mixed reviews.
Whether it&#8217;s Martine August&#8217;s doctoral work on Regent Park or  Canada Research Chair David Ley description of social mix as a transitional stage, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1545&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Community Partnership Strategy: Measuring Community Based Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do community-based organizations affect the strength of a neighbourhood? The City of Toronto says so.
A new City report argues that community-based organizations allow the municipal government to &#8220;extend its service and strategic goals.&#8221;
Community organizations are active in almost every area of social, economic, and community life – in health care, education, economic development, social services, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1440&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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