If you live in Toronto and think – like most well-off local residents – that it’s among the most wonderful of cities, it’s time you met Edith. Article Continued BelowEdith’s story was told as just one of the “voices” of lived experience in the Toronto Foundation’s annual Vital Signs report this week. The mortality rate is 16 per cent higher for low-income Toronto residents than for the wealthy. In the past, the Vital Signs report (published since 2001) usually cited the numbers, the bad and the good of Toronto life. The report notes that Toronto – with a growing population, thriving economy and crane-filled skyline – has a great deal to celebrate in wealth and opportunity.

Source: thestar February 28, 2018 21:45 UTC