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Manitoba Conservatives open door to privatization
Social service schemes announced this week by the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives to encourage private childcare and introduce Social Impact Bonds soften the ground towards privatization.…
Fast Facts: When was the first time you heard about CCPA Manitoba?
June 1 – 7th is our second annual Supporter Drive Week. Help us continue to be your local source for alternative policy ideas and analysis.…
Fast Facts: Rickety altar of balanced budgets
Manitoba’s Provincial Budget 2015 It is unfortunate that the sitting government has to waste valuable political capital maneuvering around obstructionist balanced budget legislation (BBL), but…
Fast Facts: No Silver Bullet to ‘solve’ poverty
Response to “Generosity doesn’t solve poverty” Winnipeg Free Press Dec 17, 2014 Mary Agnes Welch is right when she says charity is “not fixing the…
Fast Facts: Community, Research and Social Change
The 10th Annual State of the Inner City Report The State of the Inner City Report is an annual research collaboration between the Canadian Centre…
State of the Inner City Report 2014
Community, Research and Social Change Download 2.7 MB52 pages The State of the Inner City Report is an annual research collaboration between the Canadian Centre…
Fast Facts: Canadians Deserve a Universal Early Childhood Education and Child Care System
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, November 2014 This week hundreds of educators, academics and activists gather in Winnipeg for the fourth national childcare…
Fast Fasts: CEO Sleep Out – Charity not Change
Last night several dozen business leaders, politicians and high profile Winnipeggers spent a night at Portage and Main in the annual CEO Sleep Out to…
Fast Facts: Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for…
Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
Download 1.37 MB28 pages In Winnipeg’s inner city, and espcially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important…
Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ
Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet…
Manitoba Budget a Leap Forward for Poverty Reduction
By substantially raising EIA shelter rates and increasing child care spaces, new apprenticeship programs and support to social enterprises, the province is taking action to…
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