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Mental health, substance use and COVID19: Getting ahead of a perfect storm
What can we expect from the combination of social isolation, sky-high stress, job losses, food and housing insecurity, grief, closures of regular services and supports,…
Getting a grip on essential medical supplies
A version of this blog was published as an op ed in the Toronto Star. Canadians won a reprieve when the Trump administration and 3M, a…
Change Starts Here: Alternative Provincial Budget NEWSPAPER
Download 8.15 MB 12 pages We worked with editor Anastasia Chipelski, freelance writers and student researchers to share the APB in this accessible format. The…
Park it: Wi-Fi access is not educational equity
Last week, as Ottawa school boards began to take stock of the number of students without computers and Wi-Fi access, the Ottawa Catholic School Board…
Fast Facts: Now, more than ever, we need Rent Assist helping Manitobans
Rent Assist is a made-in-Manitoba solution to housing need: a province-wide rent supplement program that helps lower-income renters in the private market to afford housing…
L’annulation des loyers : un débat incontournable
Face à la dette locative, quelle sera la réponse des pouvoirs publics ? C’est un débat que nous devons engager dès maintenant. Au cours des…
Assisting Renters
Manitoba’s Rent Assist in the Context of Canada’s National Housing Strategy Download 3.37 MB 88 pages Assisting Renters examines how Manitoba’s Rent Assist program fits…
Long-term funding for domestic violence programs will have lasting impact beyond the pandemic, say experts
COVID-19 has plunged Canada into a state of uncertainty and fear, as people question their ability to pay rent and provide for their families during…
Fast Facts: The Shock Doctrine Playing Out in Manitoba
Noted Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein published The Shock Doctrine more than a decade ago. The book’s major thesis is that governments and…
Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19
This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate…
Swimming with the sharks
Poverty, pandemics, and payday lenders Download 424.67 KB16 pages As COVID-19-related layoffs affect workers across the country, Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits…
Without new rules, COVID-19 will mean windfall profits for payday lenders: CCPA report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Canada’s payday loan companies will see windfall profits at the expense of low- and moderate-income people if…
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