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Fast Facts: Graduate Studies and Continuing Fees
Graduate enrolment is steadily increasing in Manitoba, with more students electing to pursue post-graduate programs at both the Master’s and PhD levels. The growth in the graduate student population contributes…
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 many people living on low…
Fast Facts: You Get What You Pay For
Winnipeg’s mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around what really has been a…
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 the needs of local Aboriginal…
Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia
For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg [UW]) and Lynne Fernandez (MRA…
Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change
Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role of the Canadian Centre for…
Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History
We’re proud that over 1,500 people subscribe to this free fast facts service. The best way to ensure progressive research continues to be published in Manitoba is by supporting the…
Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board
This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather don’t account for all…
Fast Facts: Provincial Record on Housing a Welcome Achievement
The Provincial government has released an impressive record of its commitment to build affordable housing across Manitoba. Housing and Community Development Minister Peter Bjornson announced the fulfillment of the Manitoba…
Fast Facts: Grain Shipping is for the Bears
Oil by rail to Churchill not worth the risk For visitors from around the world, the opportunity to see polar bears and beluga whales in the subarctic splendor of Churchill…
Fast Facts: Cold winter a sign of climate change
Some winter we’re having, eh? This winter has been cold, no doubt about it. It is probably the coldest we’ve seen in North America since sometime in the 1990s. So,…
Fast Facts: Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare
Before the findings of the Hughes Commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies needlessly, we must all be…
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