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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E">Measuring Wellbeing:
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A Symposium on the Use of Wellbeing Indicators<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E">Monday, May 28, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E">Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E">There is more to community or national wellbeing than economic growth. Panelists in this symposium will present different approaches to measuring wellbeing,
principally the </span><a href="http://ciw.ca/en/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Canadian Index of Wellbeing</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E"> (CIW),
and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada’s (AANDC’s) </span><a href="http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100016579"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Community Wellbeing Index</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#0F243E">
(CWB), along with other applied examples of initiatives being used in communities. After a brief break, open discussion will be held with the audience and all panelists. Participants in this symposium will leave with a better understanding of how to measure
wellbeing in community settings and how this can lead to change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4A442A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Martin Cooke PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4A442A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Professor</span><span style="color:#4A442A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#948A54;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Tel 519 888 4567 x36585</span><span style="color:#948A54;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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