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Settling accounts: the privatization of MTS
The history of public and private ownership of telecommunications services is critical to understanding how government policy can, and should, protect quality service and good,…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls:
The Privatization of Manitoba Telecom Services and its Impacts Download 842.47 KB72 pages The world of telecommunications has continued to undergo “a sea-change into something…
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The Manitoba government’s Homeless Strategy’s goals are worryingly modest when compared to what past governments have done
The Manitoba government’s recently released Homelessness Strategy amounts to a belated recognition that to relieve the shortage of affordable housing that blunts and blights the…
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Tribute to Journalist Frances Russell
Before there was a CCPA-Manitoba, there was Frances Russell. Her journalistic career started in the 1960s and took her to Ottawa, Toronto, and Victoria. But…
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Work Life: Remembering Jay Cowan
In the late 1970s, it was almost impossible to open a newspaper or listen to a local news broadcast and not run up against Jay…
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Fast Facts: The price of privatization at MTS – higher prices, fewer jobs
A shorter version was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press December 29, 2020 Manitoba Hydro Chief Executive Office Jay Grewal said this fall that…
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KPMG sends Manitoba Housing down a dead end
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand Attachments KPMG Summary.pdf
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KPMG sends Manitoba Housing down a dead end
The Manitoba government is relying on KPMG consulting firm’s research to guide housing policy. A new report “KPMG sends Manitoba Housing down a dead end:…
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Old Grace A History of the Organization and Construction of the Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative
Download 1.11 MB58 pages In June 2019, Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative (OGHC) held its grand opening. The first members of the 64-unit co-op in…
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The Great Transformation
Social Housing in Manitoba The Manitoba Department of Families recently released action plan, entitled Shared Priorities, Sustainable Progress, is short on detail and long on…
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Fast Facts: Winnipeg-Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings
Nearly forty years ago, in March 1979, Winnipeg city councillor Joe Zuken led a band of a dozen or so pedestrians in what is likely…
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Invitation to an inquest
Death and dissatisfaction in Flin Flon Download 450.82 KB40 pages
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