Where I Stand
By: Joshua Ortiz
Research and Innovation In Markham
Research and innovation can be defined as the creation of new knowledge and make a new creative way to generate new concepts. High tech and life sciences are the two key business clusters in Markham. These two sectors alone can generate over 37,000 employment opportunities.
City of Markham Delegation
These people are in the York university's office of research and innovation.
Research News and Events at York
This is a picture of people showing there new inventions that can help the community.
General Electric in Markham
This is a picture of the opening of General electric in Markham. This industry provides our electricity while finding new and greener way to supply it as well.
Positive sides of Research and Innovation
- Generates over 37,000 jobs
- Generates revenue of over $54 billion across Canada.
- Creates new ideas of generating energy in a greener way.
- Creates ideas that are beneficial to the community.
Improvements that the government can do.
- Generate more ideas that the citizens of the community has.
- Create more ways that directly affects citizens of the community in a positive way. Such as giving others a voice to tell what improvements can be made to the community.
- Create a question period for the citizens to gather more ideas and turn their ideas into innovation within the community of Markham. So, we could also see what the government of Markham says about our ideas.
- Keeps us more in the know so, we know what is happening in our community whether it is small changes or large changes.
Community Safety in Markham
Community safety is a concept that gives everyone human security to keep each others safe. Such as immediate response police officers, fire fighters and ambulances. Located within Bruce's Mill conservation area there is a Community Safety Village teaching children to execute a safe escape in case of an emergency.
Community Safety Village
This is a village teaching children how to be safe in the community.
Health and Safety at work
Within the workplace there is a lot of dangers that can happen. and there are places that teach us how to be safe within our work.
Driving
This is a course taken in the community safety village showing kids how to walk the streets safely and when it is your turn on the road while driving or walking.
Positive sides of Community Safety
- teaches people especially kids in the community how to be safe in many different scenarios.
- shows that people are here to protect us when we are in need.
- Immediate response officers, fire fighters and ambulances on duty to go to danger to help what or whoever is in trouble.
- protects the community from any potential harms and shows us how we could solve the problems by ourselves
Improvements that the government can do
- teach safety to many schools instead of a field trip for people who are less fortunate than other and are not able to go to the trip.
- give everyone's house a safety button to tell officers when there is a real emergency happening in the house but unable to reach a phone.
- teach safety in a more viral way such as showing some videos online or tv ads that teach us what can happen and how to be safe in that situation.
Families in Markham
Families in Markham may have some troubles and some agencies can help with the problems with the teens and family members have so they can connect more in depth with each other. 360kids help kids that are troubled . They help over 500 kids a year to get help and help them reconnect with their families.
360 kids
This is an organization that helps kids and family members help better connect with each other.
Every Kid Matters
This is a program by 360 kids that gives kids a voice and a way to help better connect with there family also if they have problems and help fix them as well.
Family
This is a family that was saved by 360kids organization
Positive sides of Family helping organizations in Markham
- helps families that are troubled fix their problems
- gives children a voice to speak what is on their mind.
- gives people in need such as families a shelter
Improvements the government can do
- make more organizations that help children and families
- bring awareness on how serious this topic is.
- give people proper living conditions
- bring more families together while finding out the issues and telling others how to fix the problems