Watch Our Webinar: Child Poverty and Food Insecurity—Facts, Figures & Solutions

December 03 2024

What are the critical elements required to meaningfully tackle the roots of poverty in Toronto? Answering this question has been the key motivating factor behind...

Fighting For Our Future: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2024

December 02 2024

Executive Summary Fighting For Our Future: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2024 draws on the latest available taxfiler data from 2022 to reveal...

Read Our Submission to Council on the Proposed Renovictions Bylaw

November 12 2024

The following letter was submitted by Social Planning Toronto's Director of Engagement & Strategic Initiatives Melissa Wong to City Council on November 12, 2024 in...

Read Our Submission to the Economic and Community Development Committee

October 23 2024

The following deputation was delivered by Social Planning Toronto's Executive Director Jin Huh to the Economic and Community Development Committee on October 23, 2024 as...

Read Our Submission to the Toronto Police Service Board

September 12 2024

The Toronto Police Service Board recently sought public input on a new Public Order Policy currently in development that will establish a policy on police...

Reimagining Funding and Service Delivery for Newcomers: Considerations for Relational Infrastructure

June 19 2024

Reimagining Funding and Service Delivery for Newcomers: Considerations for Relational Infrastructure is a proposal to develop a community-based funding model that centres the voices of newcomers...

Recommendations to the Province of Ontario on Bill 185: Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act

June 06 2024

This letter was initially submitted to the Provincial Parliament of Ontario on May 15, 2024. We are writing to express our recommendations concerning Bill 185,...

A Tale of Two Budgets

May 01 2024

Analyses of the 2024 Federal Budget and Ontario Provincial Budget.

Watch Our Webinar: Towards Prosperity in Tkaronto

April 26 2024

Join SPT, Lindsay Kretschmer (Executive Director of the Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council) and Kenn Richard (consultant and author of the forthcoming Toronto Aboriginal Research Project 10-Year Legacy Review and Indigenous Prosperity Action Plan) for a conversation about Indigenous prosperity and what eliminating poverty means for Indigenous community-based organizations in Toronto.

Watch Our Webinar: Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy—Improving Collaboration for Collective Impact

April 26 2024

SPT is joined by Bryony Halpin (the City’s new Manager, Poverty Reduction) and Orpah Cundangan (from The Tamarack Institute) to discuss their approaches to tackling the root causes of poverty.